Environmental Protection Specialist (Instructor)

Full Job Description

See below for important information regarding this job. To qualify for a Environmental Protection Specialist (Instructor), your resume and supporting documentation must support: A.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position.

To qualify at the GS-12 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector.

To qualify at the GS-11 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector.

Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement.

Creditable specialized experience includes: GS-11: Performing duties related to the administration, maintenance, and instructing courses associated with transportation certification of regulated Hazardous Materials and EPA Wastes as part of an organization's environmental program; Providing on-the-job training or instructing courses; Developing course materials, manuals, or instructions.

GS-12: Performing duties related to the administration, maintenance, and instructing courses associated with transportation certification of regulated Hazardous Materials and EPA Wastes as part of an organization's environmental program; Developing and/ or updating courses of instruction in environmental protection and determining overall training effectiveness; Instructing courses in the area of environmental protection; Developing new course materials.

B. Education Substitution: Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work.

Education must be from a college or university accredited by an organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education. See http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx.

If using education to meet basic qualifications, YOU MUST SUBMIT A TRANSCRIPT as supplemental documentation.

To qualify based on education in lieu of specialized experience, you must possess: GS-11: Ph.D.

or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related.

GS-12: There is no education substitution at this grade level. C.

Combination: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for grade levels GS-11 and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages.

The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level.

Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grade GS-11.

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).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

To be found well-qualified as an ICTAP applicant, individuals need to demonstrate thorough knowledge of subject matter areas of Environmental Protection, Safety and the disposal of Hazardous Material/Hazardous Waste; experience in planning, designing, developing and conducting entry to advanced level courses in a variety of topics (e.g.

environment laws, RCRA Facility Compliance, Safety, Manifesting, disposal of HM/HW) within these broad subject matter areas; Utilization of instructional techniques associated with college level and adult education teaching programs; and evaluation technical training given.

Major Duties:

• If selected at the GS-11 level, duties will be performed in a developmental capacity
• Performs a variety of tasks and responsibilities in the areas of course management, educational research, delivery of instruction, curriculum development, educational evaluation, and consultation.
• Oversees, and performs major updates, general maintenance, implementation, administration, scheduling, and evaluation of assigned course(s) of instruction in the field of environmental protection.
• Instructs courses in the field of environmental protection in such areas as environmental laws, Transportation of HazMat/HazWaste, according to Department of Transportation regulations,..
• ...Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA) Facility Compliance, Safety, Manifesting, and Environmental Workshops on the disposal of Hazardous Materials/Hazardous Wastes (HM/HW).
• Develops and maintains course materials for environmental protection courses.
• Conducts research in this field in order to improve the quality of instruction and contribute to the professional body of knowledge relating to environmental protection