EWS SME

Job Details

Job Details

Job Location:

Q Office - Quantico, VA 22134

Position Type:
Full Time Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
* This position is contingent on contract award*

The EWS Subject Matter Expert designs, develops, maintains, and teaches Expeditionary Warfare School distance education curriculum while supporting faculty development, assessment, and LMS delivery requirements.

• 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).
• Develop courses in accordance with Student Learning Outcomes approved by CG, EDCOM.
• Teach two courses (by course number) with at least one in their designated course per AY.
• Ensure all courseware, including all assessments and faculty development material is ready for dissemination by the last day of April for the following academic year.
• Provide subject matter expert services in each of the following 7 areas:
  1. Ground Combat Arms (including Doctrine, Maneuver and Fires) 2. Aviation
  3. Logistics 4. Planning (utilizing Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP)) 5. Amphibious Operations
  6. Practical Exercises/War gaming and 7. Leadership/Ethics and Prerequisite development.
• Work primarily with the CDET office at the EWS resident school or a CDET Regional office, if approved by the government.

• CLS, ILS, SAW, or TLS graduate.
• Experience using guided discussion techniques to promote critical thinking, reflection, and student engagement. Socratic teaching experience desired.

• Bachelor's degree in Military Studies or equivalent field.

• Marine field grade (or select) officer.
• Experience as a commanding, executive, or primary staff officer at the battalion/squadron level or above.

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