This position is in VACO VR&E Service, Employment, Training and Outreach team. The Training Specialist collaborates with VA senior leaders in the executions, restructure, and continued training evolution to support VR&E programs.

Duties

The Training Specialist is tasked with the development of training for VR&E Service and is responsible for planning, development, implementation and maintenance of the Service's training programs and materials. Training consists of providing new skills, policies and procedures, technology, and professional development in virtual, residential (classroom-based), self-paced, hybrid style courses, microlearning, as well as national training symposiums. Plan training via a means of validating training needs and create training and implementation strategies. Design materials with specific consideration to mode of delivery, laws and regulations, urgency of need and target audience. Maintain training programs through the practice of life cycle maintenance to incorporate updates to material associated with new practices, policies, regulations and laws in place. Consults with the Service in providing procedures and standards for evaluating the quality of VR&E national training. Determines national training needs for the VR&E program and plans projects to meet these needs. Identifies training needs using surveys, focus groups, and similar tools that provide feedback and priorities from employees, managers, supervisors, and program participants. Recommends innovative programs and new approaches to meet the training needs of the Service in cooperation with the National Training Supervisor. Manages the design and oversight of training programs. These programs may be developed in-house or through contract support and utilize all appropriate means of delivery via live and recorded means to include virtual, residential (classroom-based), hybrid, microlearning and web-based training. Supports the Service in developing production schedule, determining program content, creating and editing scripts, and producing graphic materials. Plans scripts, interviews, and public service announcements. Provides training to SMEs in design and presentation techniques as required. Plans and directs program area reviews and studies, ranging in complexity from specific operational functions and problems to program-wide applications. Consults with private and public agencies external to VA on training issues. Responsibility to independently carry out and coordinate the work necessary to complete the project assignment. All projects are tasked at the discretion of the Training Specialist's supervisor, and subject to review and approval. Performs other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Training Specialist; 32650-A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized. Relocation expenses and services (Permanent Change of Station - PCS) are authorized for this recruitment. PCS is the relocation of a household due to government convenience in connection with the transfer between duty stations or facilities. In consideration of the payment of expenses for travel and transportation, the selectee agrees to remain in federal service for twelve (12) months following the date of transfer. Failure to complete all conditions of the obligated service may result in repayment of travel/transportation expenses. Click here for more information. Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:12/15/2023. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: Applicants who are current Federal employees, former Federal employees applying for reinstatement, or a current federal employee applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment must meet time in grade requirements. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. NOTE: This does not apply to Non-Federal Applicants, or applicants applying for consideration under Non-Competitive Authority (i.e.... "30% or more Disability", VRA, and/or Schedule A). To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). You must provide a copy of your most recent SF-50 that indicates proof of status, and shows Time in Grade (for example, you were a career or career-conditional employee) and identifies your position title, series, grade, step, salary, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must also submit your most recent promotion or within-grade increase in addition to your recent SF-50. If you previously held a higher grade, you must also submit any SF-50 showing that grade. DO NOT submit Award SF-50's and/or General Adjustment SF-50's as they cannot be used to prove time-in-grade. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12 level. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-13 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Specialized Experience is defined as knowledge and experience in developing, overseeing, and conducting training in integration and coordination activities in the development and execution of training; skills in wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods for the assessment and improvement of training program effectiveness. INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT: You must meet the Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR) for this occupation in the organization as described below: EDUCATION: Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- education or a subject area related to the position to be filled -OR- EXPERIENCE: Specialized Experience: Experience that demonstrated a practical knowledge of the subject area of the position and of the methods and techniques of instruction. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: Teaching or instructing in an adult education program, secondary school, college, military installation, or industrial establishment in the appropriate field(s). Supervising or administering a training program. Development or review of training/course materials, aids, devices, etc., and evaluation of training results. Work in the occupation or subject-matter field of the position to be filled that required training or instructing others on a regular basis. Volunteer Experience: 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; religions; 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. Full vs. Part-Time Employment: Full-time employment is considered to be at least 35 hours per week. Part-time experience will be credited on a pro-rated basis; when including part-time employment in your resume you must specify the average hours worked per week. Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary. No special physical demands are required to perform the work, although there may be some slight physical effort required in some situations to include the setting up and breaking down of training classrooms and environments and packing and shipping of training materials. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to be credited towards qualifications. Provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
All education claimed by applicants will be verified upon appointment. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript to receive credit.

Contacts

• Address VBA Human Resources Center - Central Office 810 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Deborah Towery
• Phone: 410-230-4400
• Email: [email protected]