Education Services Specialist.

About the Role

Serves as an Education Services Specialist with the responsibility of promoting the expansion of the Student Testing Program (STP).

Responsibilities

• Plan, prepare, coordinate, maintain, and execute activities in support of the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) STP Joint marketing plan.
• Establish contacts with state legislators, prominent business leaders, retired military personnel, and organizations to publicize and gain support for the program.
• Present the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Career Exploration Program (CEP) as a means of assisting students to evaluate educational and career choices, both civilian and military.
• Analyze current state and local educational programs and develop methods of marketing the STP and maintaining its use in the schools.
• Provide interpretation of test results to students, parents, and school officials as needed and conduct training lectures on the ASVAB CEP in college and university testing/counselor training courses.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain a valid state Driver’s License in one of the 50 U.S. states or possessions to operate vehicles.
• Will be routinely required to work an occasional Saturday and/or shift work.
• Will routinely be required to work scheduled and unscheduled overtime to accommodate fluctuations in workload based on the daily mission requirements.
• Requires extensive temporary duty (TDY) travel within the MEPS area of responsibility. May be required to perform occasional overnight travel as assigned. This travel may include temporary duty lasting 1-4 days. TDY requirement is approximately 50%.
• The duties take place in public and private schools. Incumbent must be eligible to conduct work in schools.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.

Qualifications

To qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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). Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Basic Education Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours appropriate to the position in one or a combination of the following areas:
  • Tests and Measurement: Study of the selection, evaluation, administration, scoring, interpretation, and uses of group and individual aptitude, proficiency, interest, and other tests.
  • Adult education: Study of the adult as a learner, teaching-learning theories for adults, models and procedures for planning, designing, managing, and evaluating adult learning activities.
  • Educational program administration: Study of the foundation and methods in organizing for adult and continuing education programs.
  • Curriculum development or design: Study of the principles and techniques for development of curricula for adult or vocational education programs.
  • Teaching methods: Study of teaching strategies and learning styles of the adult learner.
  • Guidance and counseling: Study of the purposes and methods in counseling and guidance, the role of the counselor in various settings, approaches to counseling, and the uses of tests in the counseling situation.
  • Career planning: Study of career development, learning activities, systems, approaches, program coordination, use of educational and community resources, and vocational counseling systems.
  • Occupational information: Study of theories of occupational choice and vocational development and their application to the guidance process. Identification and utilization of various types of occupational information and resources.
  At least one course must have been from Tests and Measurement or Adult Education.

Specialized Experience

One year of specialized experience which includes:

• Coordinating programmatic activities to support adult education programs (e.g., Student Testing Program).
• Conducting research to determine the educational needs of the population served.
• Preparing briefings to public and/or management on education programs.
• Collaborating with the education community to promote assigned education programs.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).

Education Substitution

• Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in a field demonstrating the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as Adult Education, Educational Leadership, or Counseling.
• Three full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree.

Combination of Education and Experience

A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

Foreign Education

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

Benefits

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time, or intermittent.