Job Opportunities & Careers

One of the country’s top military boarding schools for young men, Missouri Military Academy (MMA) seeks a dynamic leader to assist the president and Board of Trustees in advancing the Academy through successful fundraising. The chosen candidate will hold responsibility for forging positive relationships with alumni, cadet parents, foundations, local businesses, the community, and friends. Click here for a full prospectus on this position.

By building these relationships, we bring our Academy family together to achieve our shared vision and build upon 135 years of excellence, as we strategically develop and serve the needs of young men and families for the future. 

Our goals are creation and sustainment of these relationships, followed closely by donor cultivation and significant increases in annual giving, all leading up to a capital campaign within five years. The best candidates will include those with considerable fundraising experience and exceptional ability in the cultivation of donors,, major gift planning, foundation grant writing, and an understanding of the fundamentals of planned giving and marketing to support all of these efforts. 

General Responsibilities:

Missouri Military Academy seeks a full time Company Leadership Advisor (CLA).  This position supervises cadets in the residence life setting and ensures a safe and secure living environment.  This position requires an individual who will be a Leader, a Teacher, and a Role Model for young men.  Individual must be able to develop strong relationships with cadets, families, and teaching faculty.  This is a full-time position. 

Essential Tasks:

1. Provide direct supervision of cadet’s well-being including physical, emotional, and spiritual. 
2. Mentor and counsel cadets on mature behavior, ethics and strong leadership principles
3. Administer discipline to cadets in violation of Academy rules set forth by the Cadet Handbook and MMA’s defined policies.
4. Supervise, develop and train cadet leaders/officers to ensure there is proper and legal treatment of all cadets.
5. Provide instruction of cadets in the areas of academic assistance, leadership, physical well-being, moral character, and self-discipline
6. Promote healthy life choices, proper personal hygiene, and responsible decision making.
7. Supervise barracks life for cadets to include activities and emotional support.
8. Set exemplary personal example in both appearance and conduct to include military courtesies along with executing the mission of MMA through positive role-modeling and constructive interaction with cadets. 
9. Ensure prompt responses to parents’ questions, inquiries and concerns
10. Mentor cadets in the development and execution of individual leadership, time management, ethics, and interpersonal communication skills.
11. Conduct risk assessments as necessary for cadet activities and makes recommendations
12. Implement appropriate disciplinary action to maintain the good order and efficiency of the Corps of Cadets in accordance with academy policies, procedures, and regulations. 
13. Other duties as assigned by Commandant of Cadets.

Position Requirements:

1. Strong communication skills
2. Ability to relate and communicate with boys and young men
3. Attention to detail and effective reporting
4. Time management – ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
5. Mature, professional, and stable demeanor when dealing with discipline issues
6. Passion to want to make a positive difference in young men’s lives
7. Prior Military experience preferred – Honorable service as verified on DD214
8. Bachelor’s Degree preferred (will consider certain military qualification in lieu of degree)     
9. Abstinence from the use of tobacco and profanity when on duty. 

Office Hours, Dates of Duties and Vacation

1. Typical working hours are 1500 to 2300, forty hours a week over a rotating schedule including weekends.
2. Paid Vacation will be Christmas and Spring furloughs, and two weeks between September 1st and August 31st each year.  Vacation time will be at the approval of supervisor.

Physical demands and work environment:

1. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, and climb stairs.
2. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 30lbs of supplies or equipment.
3. The employee is regularly required to see, talk, and hear.
4. The employee is regularly required to use hands to manipulate, handle, or feel.
5. The employee is required to use computers, computer accessories, telephone, copier, FAX machine, and other such equipment.
6. The employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, or crouch.
7. The employee is frequently required to supervise students requiring the employee to match walk a speed that coordinates with students and may at times require the ability to run to safeguard students.
8. The employee must occasionally move equipment and/or supplies weighing up to 50lbs.
9. The employee is frequently required to work indoors and outdoors in the heat and cold on a year-round basis.
10. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
11. The employee is required to work with school staff, students, and parents.
12. The employee is regularly required to handle stressful situations and resolve conflicts.
13. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time.  Work is performed inside and outside in all types of weather conditions with slipping, tripping and bumping hazards.

Missouri Military Academy (MMA) is seeking qualified applicants for an assistant baseball coach (spring season).     

Essential responsibilities and duties:

• Assist the head coach in ensuring the highest possible level of service is delivered to students while fostering a culture of academic excellence.
• Assist the head coach with in helping cadets achieve a high level of skill, an appreciation for the values and discipline and sportsmanship and an increased level of self-esteem.
• Ability to enforce discipline and sportsmanship at all times, and demonstrate effective human relations and communication skills. 
• Ensuring compliance with MSHSAA
• Knowledge of the rules of baseball. 
• Maintaining statistics on players.
• Understanding and adherence to MMA policies and procedures. 

Qualifications:

• Prior high school coaching experience.
• Completion of the Sport First Aid Course.

Missouri Military Academy offers a dynamic educational experience for boys in grades 7 -12 in a military boarding school environment. The Academy is known for its 360 Degree Education, which provides a well-rounded, holistic education that is centered upon the pillars of academic excellence, character development, personal motivation, physical health and the enhancement of leadership skills.

Missouri Military Academy empowers young men to unlock their potential through a program of academic excellence, character, social development and leadership training within a structured environment. 

Missouri Military Academy develops young men who are... 

• of sound moral character and self-disciplined to strive for and achieve their goals 
• academically prepared to attend and graduate from college
• better prepared for life as a result of the Academy's mentoring and focus on academic, physical, character and social development. 

Love, Honor, Truth

Academic Excellence. Providing a world-class education that prepares our cadets for college entrance and graduation from the nation’s finest four-year colleges and universities.

Duty. Performing one’s obligations, tasks, service or functions that emanates from their position or station in either life or a group.

Honor. To exercise and maintain fairness, integrity and honesty in one’s beliefs and actions.

Integrity. A firm devotion to moral and ethical principles and soundness of character in all our affairs.

Loyalty. To one’s family, friends, teammates, institution and nation.

Respect. To render appropriate deferential regard and esteem to family and friends, teammates and competitors, peers and leaders, institutions and one’s country.

Personal Courage. To choose the harder right over the easier wrong.

Selfless Service. Service to each other, our families, the Academy, community and nation.

Leadership. Simply put, one’s ability to influence others in a positive manner to accomplish an assigned task.  

Discipline + Scholarship + Leadership = Success

The foundation of what we offer and what differentiates us as an educational institution...

• A college preparatory school with a military tradition. Since 1889, thousands of parents have looked to MMA to help their sons grow, compete and thrive. We boast 100% college acceptance and millions in college scholarships every year. Our college placement office guides cadets along their path to success. 
• Structure + Accountability = Love. MMA's caring, structured environment teaches responsibility and instills perseverance, pride and self-discipline to help boys and young men reach their full potential. 
• Unique 360 Degree Education. Focused on all aspects of a boy's development, MMA molds boys into college-ready young men by focusing on five essential elements: academic excellence, character development, personal motivation, physical development and leadership. 
• An Edge to Succeed in College and Life. MMA's holistic environment provides support for students and enables them to achieve academic and leadership success. All of our programs exist to motivate cadets to reach their full potential, build self-confidence and develop academic and life skills that will lead to success in college and beyond. MMA even provides opportunities for students to start college early, giving them an edge over their peers. 
• Global Perspective. An international community, 38% of MMA's cadets hail from abroad, bringing diversity and global perspective to life and academics at MMA. From 30 different states and 9 countries, including Brazil, China, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Mongolia, Namibia, Rwanda and Vietnam, young men from around the world form tight bonds as they become MMA brothers. 

Click here to learn more about MMA's leadership, including our president, directors and board of trustees.