Professional Practice and Improvement Specialist

**Duties**:

- Provide opportunities to optimize curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices through professional networks.
- Promote standards-driven instruction, innovative practices and professional growth within professional learning communities.
- Implement and sustain a collaborative coaching approach for district and school leaders to become more reflective practitioners and support their roles as instructional leaders.
- Identify training and education gaps and provide guidance and direction for the development of intervention strategies and professional learning opportunities.
- Conduct face-to-face, blended, virtual professional development to build capacity of district staff, principals, and teacher leaders.
- Conduct program evaluations using formative and summative assessment tools to ensure quality and degree of implementation, inform continuous improvement efforts, and analyze professional learning needs.
- Conduct root cause analysis and identify discrepancies between goals and current status and develop solutions in order to stimulate achievement.
- Engage and support district and school leaders in collaborative learning communities to foster continuous learning, productive interaction, and support transfer of the learning to 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 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 DoDEA 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.

**Qualifications**:

- **Current Competitive Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Civilian Employee**:

- **Current Excepted Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Employee**:

- **U.S. citizens**:

- In order to determine if you meet any of the eligibilities above, please review the required documents listed in the announcement questionnaire.

**Basic Requirements for Professional Practice and Improvement Specialist**:
**Education**:A master's degree (or higher degree) in the field of education is required. The course work must have been completed at or accepted by a regionally accredited U.S. college or university.

**Specialized Experience**: At least 2 years of experience beyond the teaching level developing and designing professional learning (e.g. Instructional Specialist/Designer) for PK-12 district or school leaders/administrators; OR demonstrated leader/administrator experience supervising PK-12 educators in professional growth and administering and supporting PK-12 instructional programs. The specialized experience must have been gained in a PK-12 setting or PK-12 administrative/headquarters office.

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

- Accountability
- Creativity and Innovation
- Education Consultation, Coaching and Collaboration
- Instructional Delivery and Learner Development
- Learning and Program Evaluation
- Oral Communication

**Education**:
**Foreign Degrees and Course Work from Non-accredited Institutions**. 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:
a. The work must be evaluated and interpreted by a current member of National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES). This website provides a list of current organizations who can perform your evaluation. You must select and work directly with one of these organizations.

b. 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

c. 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.

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