You will serve as a TRAINING INSTRUCTOR in the MARINER SKILLS TRAINING CENTER of SURFACE WARFARE OFFICERS SCHOOL.

Duties

You will provide safe navigation, seamanship and ship handling principles training and instruction to Naval Officers; demonstrate the skill and knowledge that is needed to ensure safe navigation, seamanship and ship handling is taught. You will develop curriculum to support instruction on navigation, seamanship and ship handling principles in the arts and sciences of ship handling surface combatant ships throughout the Fleet. You will provide instructional techniques and competency assessment methods involving use of bridge simulators, advanced shiphandling principles, maneuvering characteristics for Surface Ship, Automatic RADAR Plotting Aids (ARPA), and VMS operations. You will have an understanding of teaching students in the Conning Officer Virtual Environment (COVE) simulators in applying lessons learned in practical seamanship manner. You will assess competency of students on midterms and finals assessments before graduating course. You will ensure students understand and have the ability to apply the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS) Rules of The Road and safe navigational tactics. You will have experience in facilitating lessons in shiphandling, navigation, bridge resource management in a classroom setting while keeping students engaged by utilizing lessons and referencing professional experience.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Providing instruction or training to students/personnel on navigation, seamanship and ship handling principles; 2) Developing curriculum to support instruction on navigation, seamanship and ship handling principles; 3) Utilizing simulators and other computer-based ship handling training systems to provide instruction for students; and 4) Assessing competency of student/personnel in meeting learning or training objectives in navigation, seamanship and ship handling principles. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series and https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1700/training-instruction-series-1712/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience:

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

A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education. See Required Documents for additional information.

Contacts

• Address SURFACE WARFARE OFFICERS SCHOOL 446 Cushing Road Newport, RI 02841-1209 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]