Instructional Systems Specialist

**Duties**:

- Support school and teacher implementation of College and Career Ready Standards (CCRS) for teaching and learning.
- Collaborate with school educational teams to develop meaningful professional learning plans, rigorous teaching, leading, and learning practices.
- Identify professional learning gaps to design professional development plans that follow a learning progression.
- Provide job-embedded professional development such as analyzing student data, using standards-based curriculum tools, and conducting research to improve instructional practices.
- Develop and support professional learning communities for school educational teams and teachers that build shared and collective understanding of content/curriculum knowledge.
- Promote best practices in such areas as: standards-based instruction, assessment, student-centered learning environments, learning outcomes, shared leadership, facilitation skills, and reflective practice.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Requirement.
- Proof of U.S. Citizenship required.
- Direct deposit of pay is required.
- Two year trial or probationary period may be required.
- This position requires a Tier 3 (T3) investigation with Childcare Checks since its duties require interaction with children and youth under the age of eighteen (18) years of age.
- You may be required to sign a transportation agreement.
- You will be required to sign a mobility agreement, be available for worldwide placement, and be willing to rotate to any DoDDS or DDESS location.
- Individuals hired from the Continental United States (CONUS) and their family members (who are US citizens) are required to obtain Official Passports prior to departure to the overseas area.
- Individuals assigned to Italy, England, or Korea, are required to obtain a visa to enter these countries.
- A secret security clearance is required.
- To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation.
- The Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees.
- Therefore, to the extent a Federal job announcement includes the requirement that applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to Executive Order 14043, that requirement does not currently apply.
- Federal agencies may request information regarding the vaccination status of applicants for the purposes of implementing other workplace safety protocols, such as protocols related to masking, physical distancing, testing, travel, and quarantine.

**Qualifications**:
**Minimum Education Requirement**: A Master's degree in the field of **Education. **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**:

- _Learning theory, psychology of learning, educational psychology:_ Study of learning theories as they relate to the systematic design, development, and validation of instructional material.
- _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.

**Professional Licensure/Certification Requirement**:Applicants must be currently certified or certifiable under the current DoDEA standards as a Teacher, Pre-Kindergarten (category 0090) or Kindergarten (category 0095) or elementary (categories 0101, 0102 or 0103). A minimum of 12 semester hours of undergraduate or graduate level course work in mathematics is required.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

- Instructional and Performance Support Technology
- Instructional Materials & Curriculum Development
- Instructional Program Administration
- Instructional Program Evaluation

**Education**:
**Additional information**:

- Applicants must comply with the Exceptional Family Member Program requirements as outlined in the DoD Instruction 1315.19.
- Applicants who have family members with special medical needs should ensure that prior to accepting a position overseas their family members' medical needs can be met. Access to care in a military treatment facility may not be available to civilian employees except on a space available basis. Consequently, host nation medical facilities may be the only care available. The availability and level of care at host nation medical facilities will vary by location.
- Selectees recruited outside the U.S. will have their eligibility for foreig