CSC SME

*This position is contingent on contract award*

Job purpose

The CSC Subject Matter Expert designs, develops, maintains, and teaches Command and Staff College distance education curriculum while supporting accreditation, faculty development, assessment, and LMS delivery requirements.

Duties and responsibilities

• Maintain USMC subject matter expertise in the assigned program's curriculum as measured through the Course Content Review Board (CCRB) process referenced in Appendix H.
• Adapt resident curriculum into distance education curriculum using the Marine Corps Instructional Systems Design/Systems Approach to Training and Education (MCISD/SATE) curriculum development process per NAVMC 1553.1A.
• Revise and update courseware according to CDET's course development schedules.
• Develop course/lesson objectives using Bloom's revised taxonomy to accomplish resident school educational outcomes.
• Establish and maintain courseware, curriculum and assessment version control.
• Create and safeguard course assessments electronically.
• Develop and maintain an electronic assessment-mapping document, demonstrating appropriate linkages between assessments and specific educational objectives, and learning outcomes.
• Develop electronic answer and reference keys for course assessments.
• Maintain electronic files of all documents, assessments, graphics, readings, electronic media and supporting information for the courses.
• Coordinate with the program editor to ensure copyright approval for all provided course materials.
• Maintain and manage the master LMS course sites, keep them current and responding to questions about content for each program's curricula.
• Provide up-to-date course information for the CDET public facing website.
• Answer questions from the field on all aspects of the courses.
• Perform faculty development by updating, managing, and monitoring course LMS faculty-development site content; electronically developing and distributing the course faculty guide; maintaining course content on the CDET web page; and recommending course-specific faculty standards.
• Conduct Institutional Effectiveness/Institutional Research analysis by evaluating student performance and recommending curriculum changes; electronically recording test-item analyses; analyzing and recording end-of-course feedback from students, faculty, commanders, and stakeholders; preparing descriptive statistics and graphics to inform course changes; and preparing electronic Course Content Review Board reports or briefings.
• Travel to IR and Process for the Accreditation of Joint Education (PAJE) or Outcome Based Military Education (OBME) visits, conferences and briefings as required by the CDET Dean of Academics.
• Participate in annual MCU faculty development sessions.
• Conduct research for appropriate video/audio clips, and photographs from the Marine Corps Audio/Visual (A/V) Repository and other Marine Corps agencies.
• Participate in the Joint Staff J-7 Annual Joint Faculty Education Conference (JFEC).
• Incorporate Joint Professional Military Education Phase I requirements per CJCSI 1800.01 (OPMEP) into the course and prepare briefings and self-study for the Process for the Accreditation of Joint Education (PAJE), Outcome Based Military Education (OBME) or other reviews required by the Joint Staff J7 or CDET Dean of Academics.
• Provide SME services in the following 8 courses: 1. Foundations, 2. Competition and Conflict, 3. Joint Operations, 4. Operational Planning I, 5. Joint Domains I, 6. Joint Domains II, 7. JADO, 8. Operational Planning II.
• Provide information for accreditation requirements electronically to the Dean of Academics.
• Provide SME expertise to PAJE or OBME review teams in accordance with CJCSI 1800.01 (OPMEP).
• Attend the annual Joint Faculty Education Conference (JFEC) hosted by the Joint Staff J7.
• Teach up to two courses at Quantico (by course number) per year.
• Work primarily with the CDET office at the CSC resident school, or a CDET Regional office if approved by the government.

Qualifications

• Joint Qualified Officer or joint-duty background desired for 8900 Series, required for 9000 Series.
• Socratic teaching experience desired.
• Planning experience and operational experience commensurate with being a graduate of ILS, SAW, or TLS desired.

Education

• Bachelor's degree.
• Master's degree strongly desired.

Years of Relative Work Experience:

• Military: LtCol or above.
• Civilian who is an ILS, SAW, or TLS graduate, or with a Master's or PhD in Military, American, European, or Diplomatic History; or in Strategic Studies, International Relations, or related field.

Clearance:

• Tier 3 Secret eligibility and an active Secret clearance are required; classified access must be maintained.