ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR CIVICS HUMANITIES ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (CHASS)

Summary

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Duties

• Major Duties of the Position: The Associate Dean for Civics, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS): Provides academic leadership and portfolio administration (40%) for the CHASS academic portfolio, establishing priorities, translating senior-leader direction into executable academic objectives, and overseeing academic programs, curriculum, governance, assessment, scheduling, faculty utilization, resource requirements, and continuous improvement. Ensures that CHASS operates as a coherent, integrated general-education program combining disciplinary rigor with intellectual breadth. Supervises and develops faculty and staff (25%), including civilian and military personnel and subordinate leaders as assigned. Plans and assigns work; establishes performance expectations; evaluates performance; supports recruitment and staffing; identifies training and developmental needs; addresses employee concerns; and promotes organizational effectiveness, accountability, and a professional workplace. Oversees curriculum integration, academic quality, assessment, and cadet development (20%) across the CHASS portfolio. Guides curriculum development and review, academic standards, learning outcomes, instructional approaches, assessment, program evaluation, and interdisciplinary integration, ensuring that programs contribute effectively to cadets' development as critical thinkers, communicators, ethical decision-makers, and future officers. Provides strategic integration, faculty development, and institutional engagement (15%) by developing faculty capability, encouraging scholarship and educational innovation, advising senior leaders on emerging academic and mission requirements, building partnerships, participating in institutional governance and strategic planning, and representing CHASS with USAFA, Department of the Air Force, academic institutions, government organizations, and professional and civic partners. Advises senior academic leadership and manages portfolio resources, including personnel, workload, instructional support, technology, space, partnerships, and other mission requirements. Evaluates competing priorities, organizational risks, and resource implications and recommends appropriate courses of action. May teach, mentor, advise, conduct scholarship or research, or participate in other academic activities when assigned and appropriately qualified; however, these duties support rather than replace the position's primary academic-administrative and supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must be current USAFA faculty members and hold the academic rank of either associate professor (AD-1701-23) or Professor (AD-1701-24). USAFA faculty currently serving in an AD-1720-25 academic administration role with the requisite academic credentials are also eligible to apply. ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: Humanites, Arts, and Social Sciences. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: We are particularly interested in senior faculty who bring: * A strong record as a USAFA educator. * Sustained superior performance in teaching, scholarship, and institutional service * Experience leading faculty, programs, courses, departments, or significant academic initiatives. * A record of teaching and scholarship in civics, humanities, arts, or social sciences that demonstrates intellectual breadth and serious interdisciplinary and/or integrated engagement. * A commitment to building a rigorous, formative, integrated general education program, with experience in common-core, primary-text, seminar, writing-intensive, Western civilization, civic education, or comparable undergraduate curricula and in developing disciplinary specialists as effective teachers within a common curriculum. This position offers an unusual opportunity to help shape the intellectual architecture, faculty culture, and educational experience of a new School during its formative years. Inquiries about the position should be directed to the Search Committee Chair, Dr. Mark N. Jensen, [email protected]. Please do not email documents or completed applications to this address as they will not be considered.

Education

EDUCATION: If selected, you will be requested to provide original copies of ALL OFFICIAL transcripts for degrees being pursued or obtained (or letter of degree completion if an OFFICIAL transcript is not available due to recent graduation) to support your educational claims as stated in your curriculum vitae. Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a transcript to be considered OFFICIAL, it should be printed on university letterhead and the registrar's official seal/signature must appear on the transcript. Your transcripts must also reflect the degree awarded/conferred date. Transcripts labeled UNOFFICIAL will not be accepted. Upon request, ensure you include ALL transcripts to support your educational claims as stated in your curriculum vitae (resume) even if not required for this position. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the educational requirements. However, you must show proof that the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying in the form of an "official" statement of U.S. equivalency from a Department of Education approved (non-federal) agency (i.e. AICE, NACES), who will complete a U.S. Standard of Education Conversion.

How to apply

The complete Application Package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the date the announcement closes, 09/15/2026. To begin the application process, click the Blue Apply Button at the top of the page to create an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. Follow the prompts to complete the application questionnaire. Please ensure you click the Submit My Application button at the end of the process. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes: 1. Your Resume/Curriculum Vitae If you submit more than one Resume/Curriculum Vitae, only the most recent (latest) will be reviewed to determine your qualifications. The "most recent" is considered the resume with the latest timestamp. For qualification determination your Resume/Curriculum Vitae must contain hours worked per week and dates of employment (i.e., month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your Resume/Curriculum Vitae does not contain this information, your application may be marked as insufficient, and you will not receive consideration for this position. If you are a current Federal employee or previous Federal employee, provide your pay plan, series and grade, i.e. GS-0301-09. Current Federal Civilian Employees may list any relevant performance related rating (given within the last three years) and/or incentive awards in your Resume/Curriculum Vitae. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your name, first and last, MUST be included on your resume. 2. Additional Required Documents (see Required Documents section). Ensure all submitted documents contain your full name. 3. Help recruiters find you. Make your resume and profile searchable, which means recruiters may contact you about possible jobs. Additional information may be located here. PLEASE NOTE: It is the applicant's responsibility to verify that information entered and/or uploaded, (i.e., resume) is received, accurate, and submitted by the closing date *All close dates are 11:59 PM Eastern Time*. You may verify your documents have been processed with your application package successfully. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan. Human Resources WILL NOT modify or change any answers submitted by an applicant.