EDUCATIONAL AIDE
Department of Defense Education Activity
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EDUCATIONAL AIDE
Department of Defense Education Activity
Department of Defense
SES Pay Grade
Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900
Typical requirements: Executive-level leadership experience. Senior executive qualifications required.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job is for an educational aide at a Department of Defense elementary school in South Carolina, where you'll help teachers by preparing materials, tutoring young students from prekindergarten to first grade, monitoring them during the day, and assisting with testing and grading.
It's a supportive classroom role that involves working closely with kids and staff in a military base school environment.
A good fit would be someone patient and organized who enjoys helping children learn, with some office or educational experience or relevant college education.
Key Requirements
- At least one year of general experience in clerical, office, or similar work that shows ability to learn educational support skills
- Or 2 years (60 semester hours) of education above high school as a substitute for experience
- Or a combination of education and experience that totals 100% of the requirement
- Strong communication skills for interacting with students and staff
- Ability to teach or tutor others effectively
- Knowledge of media standards, such as handling educational tools and materials
- Eligibility under specific Department of Defense employment authorities, like current DoDEA employees, military spouses, or veterans
Full Job Description
About the position: Pierce Terrace Elementary School is part of the South Carolina Schools Community which is part of the DoWEA Americas Southeast District.
Pierce Terrace serves students from Prekindergarten (PK) through 1st grade.
This position is located at: Department of War Education Activity, Department of War Education Activity Mid-Atlantic District, Pierce Terrace Elementary School,Fort Jackson, SC.
Description of Working Environment: Work is performed in a classroom setting.
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.
You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.
See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
Current Competitive Service Department of War Education Activity (DoWEA) Civilian Employee Current Excepted Service Department of War Education Activity (DoWEA) Employee Current Excepted Service Department of War Employee Executive Order (E.O.) 12721 Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) Postal Service/Peace Corps and Other Unique Authorities Priority Placement Program, DoW Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoW Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoW MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoW Retained Grade Preference Eligible In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
Experience required: To qualify based on experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job.
General experience is defined as: progressively responsible clerical, office or other work that indicates ability to acquire the particular knowledge and skills needed to perform the duties of an Educational Aide.
Education Substitution: Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience above in order to qualify.
For this job, you may qualify if your education meets the definitions below: 1) Qualifying based on education alone: Education may be substituted for general experience with 2 years (60 semester hours) of education above high school.
2) Qualifying based on a combination of education and general experience: A combination of education and general experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.
To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of qualifying experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of undergraduate education by 60. Add the 2 percentages.
Note: For the purpose of qualifications, 1 full year of undergraduate education is equivalent to 30 semester hours.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Communications and Media Standards Teaching Others Major Duties:
- Distributing/collecting testing materials as needed by students
- Grading/providing testing results using identified scoring techniques
- Monitoring students during various phases of school day
- Preparing instructional materials related to classroom lessons
- Providing tutoring to students in all subject areas
- Accompanying/supervising students on field trips
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