Senior JROTC Program Lead & Cadet Development

ReNEW Schools; Columbia City (IN); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The School City of East Chicago is seeking a Senior Army Instructor (SAI) and Army Instructor (AI) to lead the JROTC unit. The SAI serves as department chair and chief instructor, coordinating with the senior school official and maintaining relations with school authorities and cadets.

The role requires overseeing curriculum delivery, cadet development, uniforms, awards, and safety compliance, including administering DA forms and JUMS reports, and coordinating public affairs with local schools

Responsibilities

• Manage and conduct the JROTC unit according to school rules and regulations, and policies.
• The SAI will advise school authorities on policy and regulation changes within CCR 145-2.
• Maintain good relations with school authorities, faculty and the student body.
• Conduct a public affairs effort in the local area middle and elementary schools, among school and community official, civic groups, parent-teacher groups and other individuals or groups, designed to further the understanding of JROTC, the and the Army.
• Enroll students in JROTC and support school officials while executing the curriculum and the integrated extra-curricular activities.
• Prepare weekly training schedules
• Maintain contact with parents of all Cadets experiencing academic or behavioral problems.
• Ensure JROTC unit areas are neat and orderly; current chain of command photos, Cadet Creed, core abilities and mission statement are present; and all sensitive items are secured.
• Ensure instructors share teaching responsibilities.No instructor is exempt from teaching a fair-share of the LET POI.Instructors should teach by expertise and preference in subject areas, rather than strictly by LET levels.All Instructors (SAI/AIs) are responsible for teaching the JROTC curriculum.
• Maintain a current copy of DA Form 3126 and/or DA Form 3126-1, completed service learning checklist/rubric, a current copy of a bond/insurance certificate, and required JUMS reports.
• Maintain accountability of all equipment, IAW AR 710-2, including items requiring
• formal accountability (i.e., air rifles), informal accountability (i.e., clothing) and durable items
• costing $5,000 or less (i.e., automation, computers, audiovisual), but still requiring property
• accountability. Failure to properly account for government property could result in pecuniary
• JROTC – Instructors
• liability or adverse action. If negligence is probable, the instructor must initiate a DD Form 200,
• Financial Liability Investigation of Property Loss (FLIPL). Refer to AR 735-5 for instructions.
• a)At a military institute (MI), the SAI will establish the rules and orders relating to JROTC
• instruction and training in coordination with the senior school official. The authority for
• direction, coordination and control of the school’s Corps of Cadets may be vested in the
• Commandant of Cadets, as designated by the head of the school. Instructors will not be required
• to perform additional duties beyond those required by the JROTC curriculum. Additionally,
• SAI/AIs will not be required to perform duties as the Commandant of Cadets or tactical officer,
• who are responsible to the head of the school for the health, welfare, morale and discipline of
• members of the Corps. The organization of the school’s Corps of Cadets and its administration
• and control are joint responsibilities of the SAI, tactical officer, and commandant, each having a
• special interest in those areas. The SAI and commandant will jointly draft the orders relating to
• the administration and control of the Corps, including appointment, promotion,
• and demotion of Cadet Officers and noncommissioned officers.
• The head of the school must approve these orders in accordance with this regulation.
• b)JROTC instructors may not be required to serve as the JROTC academy
• director/coordinator or any other title requiring them to be administratively in charge of a
• ―school within a school.
• c)Warrant Officers may also serve as AIs in programs that are chaired by Commissioned
• Officers. However, they are prohibited as AIs in programs that are chaired by NCOs serving as
• SAIs.
• d)In no instance will an AI be higher in rank than the SAI for that JROTC unit nor will two
• instructors of the same rank/grade be permitted to run a JROTC program.
• e)In independent JROTC programs (without a DAI or School District MPS coverage), the
• SAI will serve as the Government Purchase Card Holder or Approving Official to properly
• execute the JROTC program’s MPA and OMA budgets.

Job description

The School City of East Chicago is seeking a Senior Army Instructor (SAI) and Army Instructor (AI) to lead the JROTC unit. The SAI serves as department chair and chief instructor, coordinating with the senior school official and maintaining relations with school authorities and cadets.

The role requires overseeing curriculum delivery, cadet development, uniforms, awards, and safety compliance, including administering DA forms and JUMS reports, and coordinating public affairs with local schools