Training Specialist - Washington, United States - US Peace Corps

US Peace Corps

Verified Company

Washington, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Duties

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The Training Specialist (Language Testing & Training) performs the following major duties:

Evaluates Peace Corps language training programs, strategies, techniques, and methodologies, and identifies aspects of training models that are successful.
Maintains current trends and innovations in language training in order to develop new strategies, approaches, or methodologies to support improved language programs.
Evaluates professional development needs of language teaching program staff globally, regionally, and locally and reports findings to posts, Regions, and headquarters.
Develops competencies, training, professional development curriculum and technical guidance on professional development for language training staff.
Oversees the agency's language proficiency testing program, including planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of workshops and workshop outcomes.
Collects and analyzes Volunteers' language proficiency test scores in order to monitor the effectiveness of language training programs.
Serves as technical expert in language tester training course design and delivery.

Requirements

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Conditions of Employment

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You must be a U.S. Citizen.
You must be at least 18 years of age.
All Federal employees are required to have federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.
You must complete a Declaration for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment, at the time requested by the agency.
You must go through a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process that requires two forms of identification from the Form I9. Federal law requires verification of the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires in the U.S. These documents must be unexpired originalor certified copies
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You must successfully complete a background security investigation with favorable adjudication. Failure to successfully meet this requirement will be grounds for employment termination.
Prior to employment, and in compliance with statutes 5 USC 3322 and 22 USC 2507b, Peace Corps will conduct a check of Peace Corps records for both Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and former Peace Corps employees.
All new employees are required to certify and submit a state of understanding acknowledging adherence to the Peace Corps condition of employment prior to day 1 of employment with the Peace Corps.
This position requires a public trust background investigation.
This is a bargaining unit position.
A oneyear probationary period is required.
Travel within and outside the country of assignment is required.
The initial appointment to this position cannot exceed five years.

Qualifications

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- performing language testing,
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- evaluating language training performance and programs.

Please note

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Past experience that satisfies the Specialized Experience MUST be well documented within your resume. Failure to provide this information in your resume with corresponding start and end dates (month, day, and year) of employment, the number of hours worked per week, and location of employment may result in disqualification from further consideration.
Specialized Experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector, or through volunteer work done with National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) or other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
One year of experience refers to fulltime work; parttime work is considered on a prorated basis.
Additional information on qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM web site.
Peace Corps employees are employed using the Foreign Personnel (FP) pay scale. The FP pay plan does not follow the same structure as the GS pay plan. In the FP pay plan, as the gradelevel numbers decrease the level/pay for the position increases. The FP09 is the lowest entrylevel grade and the FP01 is the highest seniorlevel grade.

Education

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OR
Education must be accredited by an institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be used towards qualifications. Therefore, applicants must report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by recognized institutions. Applicants can verify accreditation at this website.

Additional information

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The minimum and maximum salaries listed on this announcement include locality pay.

If you are a current federal employee, your agency may grant you reemployment rights in accordance with Section 310 of the Foreign Service Act, 22 USC 3950.

You must request and be granted reemployment rights prior to separation from your current federal agency.
Peace Corps Information

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