Instructional Systems Specialist (NDSP)

Summary

About the Position: There are two Full-Time/Seasonal Instructional Systems Specialist (NDSP) positions for Non-DoW Schools Program Branch, located in Sembach, Germany and Okinawa, Japan.

Duties

• •Manage international education efforts to optimize the impact on student achievements.
• •Create non-routine solutions to ensure students are able to maintain educational continuity when transitioning from one place to another.
• •Advocate on behalf of families to align resources needed for education requirements.
• •Collaborate with stakeholders on educational screening to assist in appropriate student placement and servicing.
• •Develop documentation to articulate required services for each student with an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).
• •Administer and interpret assessments for special education.
• •Determine adequacy of educational services for the needs of students.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See HR Public Portal - Applicant Reference Article: Applicant Checklist for Internal/Merit Promotion Announcements (DoDEA) for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Competitive Service Department of War Education Activity (DoWEA) Civilian Employee Current Excepted Service Department of War Education Activity (DoWEA) Employee To qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Minimum Education Requirement: A Master's degree in the field of Education. A Master's degree in Speech Language Pathology is also acceptable. The course work must have been completed at or accepted by a regionally accredited U.S. college or university. The undergraduate/graduate course work must have included study in at least three of the following five areas: 1. Learning theory, psychology of/earning, 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. Specialized Experience Requirement (5 years): Specialized experience is experience gained in teaching, educational research, development of educational materials and aids, educational testing, educational administration, or comparable activities in an elementary and/or secondary school which has clearly demonstrated success in the application of principles, methods, and techniques of education, and familiarity with current developments in PreK-12th grade education and training. Experience must have been in a content area specific to the ISS position. The ISS (NDSP) position requires a minimum of 2 years of special education experience that is beyond the classroom setting (school-wide case management, network, district or state special education program experience). Professional Licensure/Certification Requirement: Applicants must be currently certified or certifiable under the current DoWEA standards as a 0431 Teacher, Low Incidence Disability (K-12); 0432 Teacher, Special Education Generalist (K-12); 0441 Teacher, Early Childhood Special Education; 0470 Teacher, Deaf and Hard of Hearing (K-12); 0471 Teacher, Visually Impaired (K-12); or 0472 Teacher, Speech Language Pathologist. Information on DoDEA teaching categories and requirements is located at: https://www.dodea.edu/Offices/HR/employment/categories/.

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Foreign Degrees and Course Work from Non-accredited Institutions. Credits or degrees earned from a foreign college or university must be evaluated prior to acceptance. Three evaluation procedures are acceptable: The work may be evaluated and interpreted by the International Education Research Foundation, Inc., Credential Evaluation Service, Post Office Box 3665, Culver City, CA 90231-3665 or www.ierf.org/ or 310-258-9451. The foreign institution that awarded the degree is on a list endorsed by a regionally accredited university or on a list endorsed by a state department of education for the purpose of teacher certification in that state (this procedure will require an English translation of the transcript and a copy of the document awarding the degree, together with an authenticated list produced by an American university or a state department of education); and The work may be evaluated by the graduate division of a regionally accredited university and declared the equivalent of similar undergraduate or graduate work in a U.S. institution. Graduates of non-accredited institutions may have their undergraduate work validated by admittance to graduate school and completion of a minimum of 5 semester hours of credit in a regionally accredited graduate college. Failure to provide all the required information as stated in the vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.