ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / PROFESSOR

Summary This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer. The Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) is a U.S. Department of War institution dedicated to advancing security throughout the Indo-Pacific through executive education, strategic dialogue, research, and regional collaboration. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Center educates, connects, and empowers civilian and military security professionals to address complex regional and transnational security challenges. Through executive courses, workshops, strategic dialogues, policy engagements, and scholarly activities, DKI APCSS develops enduring professional networks, strengthens institutional capacity, and advances a free, open, secure, and prosperous Indo-Pacific.Major Duties: You will lead the development of the College's capability to design, conduct, assess, and integrate educational and analytical decision gaming addressing consequential Indo-Pacific security challenges. You will design and facilitate analytical games that examine consequential strategic problems and generate insights relevant to DKI APCSS leadership, IPSA, USPACOM, other U.S. defense stakeholders, and Indo-Pacific partners, as appropriate You will translate strategic problems and sponsor requirements into well-defined educational or analytical questions, game objectives, scenarios, player roles, decision environments, adjudication approaches, and data-collection plans. You will collaborate with department chairs, course managers, workshop leads, faculty, and subject-matter experts to align decision games and other structured approaches with educational objectives, strategic priorities, and sponsor requirements. You will develop common standards, processes, and practices for game design, facilitation, adjudication, data collection, assessment, after-action analysis, and reporting. You will analyze game results and translate observations into educational lessons, policy-relevant insights, and areas for further examination, strategic discourse, or institutional action. You will develop and maintain reusable scenarios, game materials, facilitation and adjudication guides, analytical frameworks, decision-support tools, and instructional resources. You will build faculty capacity in decision-game design, facilitation, experiential learning, systems thinking, and structured problem-solving, and related methods through mentoring, training, and collaborative design. You will responsibly integrate artificial intelligence, digital collaboration platforms, modeling and simulation, visualization, and other technologies into decision gaming and analysis, and executive education. You will develop curriculum and instructional materials and teach, facilitate, and mentor security practitioners from diverse national backgrounds using appropriate adult-learning methods. You will conduct research and publish scholarly and policy-relevant research on decision gaming, strategic analysis, executive education, and related national security challenges. You will assess the educational effectiveness of decision games and other experiential methods and apply findings to improve curriculum, instructional design, and outcomes. You will contribute to the effective administration and institutional development of the College. You will integrate educational decision games into courses, workshops, and programs to let Fellows apply concepts, exercise strategic judgment, face uncertainty, test assumptions, evaluate options, and learn through structured experiences You will support course managers, workshop leads, and faculty teams during design, development, execution, and assessment of decision-gaming and analytical activities of the College's portfolio of courses, workshops, and strategic engagements