This position is located within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS) with 1 vacancy located in La Plata, MD. This position is also announced under vacancy number NOS ONMS-24-12539742-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Duties

As an Education and Outreach Specialist, you will perform the following duties: - Serve as Sanctuary Education and Outreach Coordinator for all formal (K-12 and post-secondary) and informal education for students, teachers, and partner educators/communicators. Develop, coordinate, conduct, and evaluate sanctuary education and outreach materials and programs, including curricula and teacher professional development workshops. - Collaborate to include under-represented communities, rural schools, and tribal communities adjacent to the sanctuary to develop place-based education opportunities. Use the sanctuary and local watershed as a "living laboratory" for educational experiences and application of classroom instruction. Coordinate and implement NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Ocean Guardian, B-WET and related programs for these purposes. - Coordinate, conduct, and evaluate public outreach events consistent with sanctuary management; develop materials, coordinate logistics and support communication and engagement strategies. Coordinate training of volunteers and ensure compliance with Agency policy. Coordinate all sanctuary advisory council operations and activities consistent with national policy and in support of sanctuary management objectives. Assist to develop and implement advisory council charter, membership, and working groups and related activities. Support meeting operations, logistics, and communications. Facilitate member engagement and connection to member constituencies.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy. To qualify for the 1701 series: BASIC REQUIREMENTS: This position requires applicants to meet the Basic Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of specialized experience OR substitution of education for experience OR combination (if applicable) in order to be found minimally qualified. Transcripts must be submitted with an application package. You MUST meet one of the following basic education requirements: Degree: A degree that included or was supplemented by major study in education or in a subject-matter field appropriate to the position. -OR- Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major in education, or in a subject-matter field appropriate to the position, plus appropriate experience or additional course work that provided knowledge comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of the 4-year course of study described in A above. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. 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). 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. To qualify at the ZA-3 or GS-11: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements above, applicants must also possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-2 or GS-09 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: - Coordinating and implementing educational events; and - Building and maintaining partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, to further collective educational goals. -OR- SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. -OR- COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of education and experience as described above. Note: Only graduate education in excess of two years is qualifying for combination.

Education

• College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., Bio 101, Math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.

  Note: Your college transcript is used to verify successful completion of degree, or college course work. An official college transcript will be required before you can report to duty.

• Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the above requirements. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation

Transcripts--If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide all unofficial transcripts (undergraduate, graduate, etc.) by the closing date of this announcement or you will be disqualified from further consideration. Please ensure that all documentation is legible.

Contacts

• Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services (OHCS) 1315 East West Hwy SSMC4 Silver Spring, MD 20910 US
• Name: Applicant Inquiries
• Phone: 000-000-0000
• Email: [email protected]