Instructional Systems Specialist (Student Services Professional Learning)

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About the Position: This position falls under the DoDEA HQ Education Directorate - Student Services Special Education Division - located at the Mark Center Building in Alexandria, VA.

Who May Apply: U.S. Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and 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.

Basic Requirement for an Instructional Systems Specialist: Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours appropriate to the work of the position to be filled.

The course work must have included study in at least four of the following five areas: (1) Learning theory, psychology of learning, educational psychology: Study of learning theories as they relate to the systematic design, development, and validation of instructional material.

(2) Instructional design practices: Study of the principles and techniques used in designing training programs, developing design strategy and models, and applying design methods to the improvement of instructional effectiveness.

(3) Educational evaluation: Study of the techniques for evaluating the effectiveness of instructional/educational programs, including developing written and performance tests and survey instruments, and determining reliability and validity of evaluation instruments.

(4) Instructional product development: Study of the techniques appropriate for developing training materials, including identifying learner characteristics, specifying objectives, applying training strategy, validating training materials, and evaluating training.

OR (5) Computers in education and training: Study of the application of computers in education and training, including selecting appropriate computer software.

NOTE: You are required to submit ALL TRANSCRIPTS with at a minimum, your bachelor's degree. Your Master's, EDS, Doctorate etc.

may need to be submitted as well if they must be used to meet the education requirement. If you do not provide this, your application WILL be rejected.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience developing professional learning programs for PK-12 educators; applying instructional design principles and/or adult learning theories to create professional learning content; developing standardized professional learning policies in collaboration with stakeholders; and providing structured guidance to subject matter experts in the planning and development of PK-12 professional learning curriculum.

All qualifying experience must have been gained while serving full time in a PK-12 above school level role (e.g., district, state, central office).

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service or equivalent (GS-12).

NOTE: If your resume doesn't clearly describe this experience, your application WILL be rejected. One year is defined as 365 days or 52 weeks of full-time experience, whichever comes sooner.

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12).

Major Duties:

• Provide research-based improvements to short and long-term professional learning programs.
• Analyze program data to evaluate effectiveness.
• Ensure professional leadership curriculum is consistent and of high quality across all DoWEA districts or regions.
• Collaborate with DoWEA educators; ISSs, unions and other professional organizations to develop professional learning policies.
• Maintain professional learning – related contracts to ensure compliance with federal regulations and agency policies.
• Deliver high quality professional learning sessions to elementary education professionals to include in-person, virtual and blended techniques.