In order to meet the minimum qualifications, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Basic Education Requirement:
Successfully completed a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a Bachelor's degree or higher that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours appropriate to the position to be filled in one or a combination of the areas described below. At least one course must have been from Tests & Measurement or Adult Education. You MUST attach a copy of your transcripts to your application to receive consideration.
1. Tests and Measurement: Study of the selection, evaluation, administration, scoring, interpretation, and uses of group and individual aptitude, proficiency, interest, and other tests.
2. 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.
3. Educational program administration: Study of the foundation and methods in organizing for adult and continuing education programs.
4. Curriculum development or design: Study of the principles and techniques for development of curricula for adult or vocational education programs.
5. Teaching methods: Study of teaching strategies and learning styles of the adult learner.
6. 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.
7. Career planning: Study of career development, learning activities, systems, approaches, program coordination, use of educational and community resources, and vocational counseling systems.
8. 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.
AND
Specialized Experience: To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as: assisting with a variety of administrative functions such as, administering of tests, career guidance, and maintaining academic records in support of educational service programs. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GL-07).
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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Maximum Entry Age:
- The maximum entry age for positions covered under the special Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) retirement is 37 years old. Individuals who are past the maximum entry age limit, but previously served in a primary position, may be reinstated.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency (knowledge, skills, abilities) in the following areas:
- Ability to assess educational needs
- Ability to implement educational programs
- Skill in instruction
- Skill in written communication
Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the GS-07 grade (or equivalent).
*All applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade and specialized experience requirements within thirty (30) days after the closing date of the announcements.
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required specialized experience in order to qualify. For this job, you may qualify if your education meets the definitions below:
Have 2 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree.
OR
A combination of specialized experience and education: If you have some, but not all, of the experience or education described above, you may still qualify by combining the amount of creditable experience and education that you possess. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of qualifying experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of education by 36. Add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. Only graduate education in excess of one year may be combined with experience. NOTE: Transcripts MUST be attached to your application if using education to qualify.
NOTE: Only degrees from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience. For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Department of Education websites at: http://www.opm.gov/qualifications and https://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html. Foreign Education: Click Here
Conditions of Employment:
- A Criminal History Background Check is required.
- A medical screening to include tuberculosis screening upon appointment and annual reevaluations thereafter is required.
- The work requires frequent, direct contact in the detention of inmates convicted of offenses against the punitive articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Regularly-assigned contacts with inmates expose the incumbent to daily stress and the threat of potentially dangerous situations such as verbal and/or physical attack by the inmate population.
- Department of Defense Instruction, Number 1325.7 states all confinement facility personnel shall possess a high degree of maturity and emotional stability and have no civilian felony convictions or court-martial convictions for any offense with a maximum authorized sentence to confinement of over one year. Section 639 of Public Law 106-554 requires agencies to remove law enforcement officers from employment as law enforcement officers if they are convicted of a felony.
- This position requires an alternate work schedule to include evenings, weekends and holidays.
- This position requires the incumbent to obtain and maintain a favorable background check.
- In accordance with The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), the Military Corrections Complex may not hire or promote anyone who may have contact with inmates, has engaged in sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup community conferment facility, juvenile facility, or other institution (as defined in 42 USC 1997); has been convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse; or has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse.
