You will serve as a INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS SPECIALIST in the Navy Reserve Professional Development Center (NRPDC) New Orleans, Louisiana. of NAVRESPRODEVCEN.

Duties

You will be responsible for establishing curriculum design, development, and/or evaluative criteria through the analysis of educational or instructional deficiencies. You will be responsible for recommending policy and program changes to enhance the quality of instruction and course curricula at NRPDC. You will be responsible for providing professional mentoring and oversight for the military training developers and course writers in the command. You will be responsible for maintaining a good working relationship with NAVRESFORCOM, the affiliated resource and requirements and requirements sponsors, and other customers.

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

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also 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: Experience initiating and planning development of the curricula in the assigned specialty areas and establishing curriculum design, development, and/or evaluative criteria through analysis of educational or instructional deficiencies. Experience providing project guidelines, conducting periodic reviews of progress, reviewing complete projects and revising materials or returning them to the originator with directions for revisions. Experience performing analysis to verify training deficiencies and possible solutions and recommend corrective actions. Experience creating curriculum strategy with input from subject matter experts (SMEs), and lead course instructional teams through a review of the objectives and course learning strategies and establish goals and timelines for course development. Experience implementing educational theories, principles, methods, practices and techniques, and the Navy's Instructional Systems Development (ISD) processes for the application of PADDIE and the usage of Content Planning Module (CPM), Learning Object Module (LOM), Authoring Instructional Material (AIM) and CETARs. Experience establishing workflow methods and procedures and determining work to be accomplished both long and short-range, and set work priorities. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Instructional Systems Series 1750 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

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess

Instructional Systems Series 1750

Basic Requirements:

Degree: that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours appropriate to the work of the position to be filled. The course work must have included study in at least four of the following five areas:

1. Learning theory, psychology of learning, educational psychology: Study of learning theories as they relate to the systematic design, development, and validation of instructional material.
2. Instructional design practices: Study of the principles and techniques used in designing training programs, developing design strategy and models, and applying design methods to the improvement of instructional effectiveness.
3. Educational evaluation: Study of the techniques for evaluating the effectiveness of instructional/educational programs, including developing written and performance tests and survey instruments, and determining reliability and validity of evaluation instruments.
4. Instructional product development: Study of the techniques appropriate for developing training materials, including identifying learner characteristics, specifying objectives, applying training strategy, validating training materials, and evaluating training.
5. Computers in education and training: Study of the application of computers in education and training, including selecting appropriate computer software.

Some positions in this series may specialize in one or two functional areas, where more specific academic preparation may be necessary. For such positions, agencies may require course work in the applicable functional area(s) as part of the above-required 24 semester hours.

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

Contacts

• Address NAVRESPRODEVCEN 400 Russell Ave New Orleans, LA 70143 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]