TRAINING SPECIALIST

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f.

Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the U.S.

Army Cyber Center of Excellence - Non-Commissioned Officer Academy at Fort Gordon, Georgia. CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT.

YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE "OTHER DOCUMENTS".

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 Army Cyber Excepted Service (CES) Employee Current Army Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee Current Civilian Employees of the Organization Current Civilian Employees of the Organization Applying to Cyber Excepted Service (CES) Positions Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Current DoD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) Employee (non-Army) Current Permanent DoD Civilian Employee (non-Army) Applying to Cyber Excepted Service Positions Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Applying to Cyber Excepted Service Positions Army CES positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, "CES Employment and Placement".

If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package.

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.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document. This position is in the Professional Work Category at the Full Performance Work Level within the CES Occupational Structure.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one-year of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position.

Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled.

Specialized experience would be demonstrated by 1) Coordinating with internal and external training departments to prepare for the Training Requirements Analysis Systems (TRAS) program and other training actions, such as TNGSPT1 access in the Army Training Requirements and Resources System (ATRRS), 2) Participating in Structure Manning Decision Review (SMDR), processing and participating within the Training Resources Arbitration Panel (TRAP) process.

3) Coordinating schedules for training management for quality control of final products, and 4) Utilizing the ADDIE process to prepare audits, conduct briefings, professional development sessions, and program evaluations to provide guidance to faculty.

OR Education: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and 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 experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages. Major Duties:

• Analyzes input and formulates CCoE NCOA School’s response to Training Requirements Arbitration Panel (TRAP) actions to change execution year programs.
• Participates in Signal, Cyber and Public Affairs training summits, and schedules training management meetings to coordinate support quality control of final products
• Reviews, maintains, and monitors the TRAS documents (e.g. Individual Training Plan (ITP), Course Administrative Data (CAD) and Program of Instruction (POI) to ensure proper resource allocations.
• Reviews, staffs, and actions all proposed changes to training.
• Ensures the preparation and scheduling of resident instruction is in accordance with approved POI's and employs the most effective and efficient use of its resources, i.e., personnel equipment, facilities, generates short- and long-range calendars.
• Reviews and validates the quality of assigned courses and courseware through visits to training sites, review of evaluation questionnaires, and analysis of available data.
• Conducts formative evaluation to include the critical data collection points and the most appropriate data collection instruments.
• Designs surveys, conducts observations, and needs analysis to determine professional development requirements.
• Maintains professional relationships, serves as a liaison amongst external and internal agencies.
• Provides instructional guidance, policy, and assistance to faculty and course managers in planning, implementing, and evaluating training programs that are responsive to immediate and long-range needs and goals of the Cyber Center of Excellence.
• Supports instructor certification processes, conducts observations and evaluations of training and education to improve instructional programs.
• Develops and implements special projects designed to improve procedures, respond to a general tasking, answer internal, external, and higher headquarters inquiries, or correct a deficiency affecting units.