About the Position: Serves as a Training Specialist for one or more face-to-face or distributed learning (DL) lessons or modules. Analyzes, designs, develops, and evaluates resident and non-resident Professional Military Education courses for instruction using in-person, online, or blended learning instructional modalities. Provide subject matter expertise for the content of the material and the processes used to develop and deliver ADP training support products.

Duties

As a Training Specialist, you will perform the following duties which is not an all-inclusive list: Analyze, design, develop, and evaluate training support products. Perform liaison and interacts with faculty of TRADOC and non-TRADOC branch schools, colleges, and universities. Review Programs of Instruction, and other training documents to identify and verify the training of approved Critical Learning Requirements in schools and centers. Monitor TRADOC Common Core task lists to ensure that they include Curriculum Development Branch Common Critical Tasks and that the tasks are current, relevant., etc and complimentary between PME systems. Identify and evaluate requirements for specific military competencies. Design courses to provide instructions, e.g., Distributed Learning techniques such as (Video Tele-training; other emerging technologies such as Blackboard, CollabWorx, Adobe Connect, and Centra).

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a successful background investigation throughout the duration of employment.
• Temporary Duty (TDY), approximately 10% of the time.

Qualifications

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 Department of Army Civilian EmployeesCurrent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Interchange AgreementDomestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceExecutive Order (E.O.) 12721Interagency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI)Non-Department of Defense (DoD) TransferOffice of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement EligiblePeople with Disabilities, Schedule APriority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference EligibleReinstatementVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the 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. To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as: Work which includes work demonstrating a practical knowledge of the subject area of the position and of the methods and techniques of instruction, which includes development or review of training/course materials, aids, devices, etc. for programs of instruction in an adult education program, college, or military installation; evaluating learning products using web-based tools, such as Training Development Capability (TDC), to assess the adequacy of the product, need for revisions, and/or recommendations for improvement; and conducting validity and reliability studies to analyze test items. 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-11).

Education

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

Contacts

• Address EX-APF-W0VP30 The Army University Do Not Mail Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk