JROTC Senior Marine Instructor

Position Title: JROTC Senior Marine Instructor FLSA Status: Exempt Department: Curriculum Reports to: Principal Location: Oxford High School Salary Scale: Minimum Instructor Pay Scale Position Type: Full Time Salary Range: Description of Position:

The Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (MCJROTC) Senior Marine Instructor (SMI) serves as the institutional leader in managing and conducting the MCJROTC program in accordance with United States Marine Corps regulatory guidelines and school district rules, regulations, and policies. The instructor ensures the instructional, operations, and administrative mission of the MCJROTC program is accomplished. This individual is responsible for providing classroom instruction to cadets as established within the curriculum’s program of instruction (POI) as provided by MCJROTC and school district guidelines and policies. The instructor adheres to MCJROTC Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) relating to administration, control, and training of cadets. Finally, this person establishes and maintains viable co-curricular activities such as Color Guards, Drill Teams, Raider Teams, Rifle Teams, Physical Fitness Teams and Academic / Cyber Teams. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads and manages a MCJROTC unit and advises and coordinates with the Principal, MCJROTC Regional Director, and other agencies in ensuring that the JROTC Program is administered in accordance with Federal and State laws, regulations, and policies.
• Maintains good relations with school authorities, faculty, and the student body; maintains current regulations, policies, and procedures and maintains contact with parents of all cadets experiencing academic or behavioral problems.
• Ensures all JROTC classes are conducted utilizing the lesson plans contained in the current Marine Corps JROTC Program of Instruction (POI).
• Utilizes all available instructional and administrative equipment and software to include but not limited to the computers, LCD projectors, Cadet Record Manager (CRM), Turning Point Performance Systems (TPS), SMART Boards, Promethium Boards, etc.
• Conducts a public affairs effort in the local area middle and elementary schools, among school and community officials, civic groups, parent-teacher groups and other individuals or groups, designed to further the understanding of JROTC, the school and the Marine Corps.
• Enrolls students in JROTC and supports school officials while executing the curriculum and the integrated and co-curricular activities.
• Directs and participates in community service events with cadets, including weekend duties as applicable.
• Prepares an annual and weekly training schedule.
• Establishes and maintains at least two integrated or co-curricular teams, e.g., drill team, rifle team, raider team, academic team, cyber team.
• Supports and maintains a "Cadet-run" JROTC unit.
• Ensures instructors share in teaching responsibilities.
• Maintains accountability of all equipment, IAW MCO 1533.6E and the Marine Corps JROTC SOP, including items requiring formal accountability (i.e., air rifles), informal accountability (i.e., clothing) and durable items costing $5,000 or less (i.e., automation, computers, audiovisual), but still requiring property accountability.
• Encourages all cadets who are Juniors or Seniors to pursue post-secondary education and to apply for at least one scholarship.
• Ensures that JROTC unit areas are neat and orderly: current chain of command photos, Cadet creed, core abilities and mission statement are present and all sensitive items are secured.
• Submits required reports, as necessary, in accordance with MCO 1533.6E and the Marine Corps JROTC SOP.
• Performs other duties as agreed upon by an appropriate administrator or their representative and IAW DD Form 3202, Memorandum of Agreement to Establish and Operate a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Unit and the Marine Corps specific service addendum.
  
  

Additional Expectations

• Requires frequent weekend duties as directed on co-curricular event schedules.
• Instructors may teach by expertise and preference in subject areas, rather than strictly by Leadership Education levels.
• Completes all Marine Corps JROTC Instructor certification requirements as specified in MCO 1533.6E and the Marine Corps JROTC SOP and all Georgia JROTC Instructor requirements as specified by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GAPSC).
• Required to have prompt, regular attendance in-person and be available to work on-site, in-person during regular business hours.
  
  

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited College/University.

Certified by the Marine Corps JROTC Director as a Marine Corps JROTCinstructor.

Service Requirement. Have active duty or reserve service in the United States Marine Corps, as a Commissioned Officer in grades W-1 through O-6.

Category of Service Requirement. Category of service falls into one of the following six categories of service:

• (a) Be in a retired or Fleet Reserve status.
• (b) Have been approved for retirement benefits under the Temporary Early Retirement Authority (TERA) with 15 to 19 years of active-duty service in the Marine Corps.
• (c) Be a retired USMCR member.
• (d) Have been approved for retirement benefits for a medical disability.
• (e) Be an honorably discharged Marine Officer, who has served eight (8) or more years of service and must be honorably discharged five or less years from the date of application.
• (f) Be a Marine Officer currently serving in the SMCR.
• All employees hired by the school district must pass a criminal background and child abuse registry check.**
  
  

Preferred Education, Experience, And Skills

Master’s degree from an accredited College/University

Last Revised: 10/20/2025