Police Instructor

Position Overview

Hutchinson Campus consists of 173 acres with fifteen buildings including two multi‑story residential student dormitories. The Hutchinson Campus is home to the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC). A unit of The University of Kansas (KU), KLETC serves as the central agency for all law‑enforcement training in the State of Kansas. KLETC manages a $12 million annual budget, 65 authorized FTE staff (augmented by more than 400 contract/adjunct staff annually), and trains nearly 15,000 students annually in residential, online, and outreach programs.

KLETC serves 437 recognized law‑enforcement and police agencies in Kansas, providing basic training and continuing education programs throughout each fiscal year.

In addition to a competitive salary, KU offers great benefits to employees such as paid vacation, sick leave, ten paid holidays, plus one discretionary day, a retirement program, medical and dental insurance, life and disability insurance, other benefit‑plan options and State of Kansas discounts offered by various vendors. KU also offers employees education and professional development opportunities.

The Police Instructor assists in and/or is responsible for the instruction of students in basic, advanced and specialized law‑enforcement classes, courses and seminars conducted by KLETC. The Police Instructor is responsible for development of curriculum and learning objectives for general police subjects and instruction of basic training and in‑service training classes at KLETC and outreach sites across the state.

60%

• Responsible for the instruction of students in basic, advanced and specialized law‑enforcement classes, courses, seminars and workshops at KLETC and outreach sites throughout Kansas.
• Utilizes diverse instructional methodologies based on proven adult learning principles while presenting and incorporating classroom and practical, scenario‑based performance outcome training classes.
• Researches, develops and evaluates practical application training exercises.
• Researches, develops and instructs advanced training classes and seminars taught to local, state and federal law‑enforcement officers.
• Attends advanced training classes, courses, seminars and workshops nationally to stay abreast of the latest information, techniques, methods and strategies of contemporary law‑enforcement operations related to assigned fields of police instruction.
• Maintains a general knowledge of all areas of law‑enforcement to provide assistance to other instructors in the presentation of their assigned areas of instruction.
• Provides student officers with academic counseling services, student evaluations, participates on curriculum committees and other duties commonly associated with the instructional professional.

25%

• Responsible for the development of curricula, learning objectives, lesson plans and handout reference material for all certified and authorized basic law‑enforcement training academy programs in Kansas.
• Conducts research in assigned fields to stay informed of latest trends, theories, and methodologies.
• Designs and develops new law‑enforcement curriculum by creating learning objectives, lesson plans, and other instructional support documents based on research, surveys and job task analysis to be disseminated to all Kansas law‑enforcement academy programs.
• Regularly reviews current curriculum to assess and analyze validity.
• Develops defensible test items and evaluation matrixes to be used for academic and practical application assessment in law‑enforcement classes and courses.
• Initiates curriculum content changes based on law statute changes, court decisions or research.

10%

• Recruits, trains and schedules law‑enforcement officers from Kansas agencies to assist with practical training.
• Assists Kansas law‑enforcement agencies in developing agency training programs.
• Assists Kansas law‑enforcement agencies in hiring and promotional interview processes.
• Provides expert instructional and curriculum development assistance to other Kansas law‑enforcement academies as needed.
• Provides reports and recommendations to management staff concerning training equipment, inventory, maintenance,…