Air Force Personnel Center seeks an Educational Technician (Child Development) to provide age-appropriate developmental care and specialized instruction for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years.
Provides age-appropriate developmental care and instruction for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years in a Child Development Center. Uses initiative to design and implement a variety of activity plans to stimulate and sustain the interest of children and to contribute to their social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Prepares and implements screening procedures and enrollment procedures for children with special needs. Communicates with parents and other agencies providing specialized services to these children to assist in the preparation and implementation of specialized intervention programs, as necessary. Provides technical guidance and leadership to junior employees assigned to assist with program activities and participates in special projects. Arranges room and play materials to accommodate the daily schedule. Sets up and displays bulletin boards.
In order to qualify, you must meet the general and/or specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Clerical and Administrative Support Positions.
FOR CONSIDERATION AT THE GS-05 LEVEL
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-04, or equivalent in other pay systems. Examples of specialized experience include knowledge of an extensive body of child development program rules and procedures requiring extended training and experience to plan and perform a wide variety of interrelated child care assignments and resolve a wide range of problems; knowledge of early child development theory, methodology, and practices relating to physical, intellectual, social, and nutritional development to effectively interact with the children and design and implement activity plans and specialized programs depending on the individual needs of the child; knowledge of Child Development Center procedures to ensure processes such as receiving children from parents; maintaining accurate count of children, and seeing children home at the end of the day are properly carried out, and to ensure established procedures for preventing, treating, and reporting all child injury, illness, and/or abuse are adhered to; ability to promote and foster effective working relationships with others to interact effectively and appropriately with the children and ensure effective communication with parents; ability to communicate effectively and be an effective role model to provide technical guidance and leadership to lower graded employees.
OR EDUCATION: Successful completion 4-years of education above the high school level, in any field for which high school graduation or the equivalent is the normal prerequisite, obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university. NOTE: you must submit a copy of your transcripts.
OR COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: A combination of post high-school education in excess of the first 60 semester hours (i.e., beyond the second year) and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. NOTE: You must submit copies of your transcripts.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:
FOR CONSIDERATION AT THE GS-06 LEVEL:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-05, or equivalent in other pay systems.
FOR CONSIDERATION AT THE GS-07 LEVEL:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE FOR INTERNAL CANDIDATES: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-05, or equivalent in other pay systems.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE FOR EXTERNAL CANDIDATES: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-06, or equivalent in other pay systems. Examples of specialized experience include comprehensive knowledge of child development program rules and procedures extending training and experience to plan and perform a wide variety of interrelated childcare assignments and resolve a wide range of problems. Extensive knowledge of early child development theory, methodology and practices relating to physical, intellectual, social and nutritional development to effectively interact with the children and adapt activities from OSD approved curricula as necessary for the individual needs of the child. Knowledge of child development program procedures to ensure processes such as receiving children from parents, maintaining accurate count of children, seeing children home at the end of the day are properly carried out. Ensure established procedures for preventing, treating and reporting all child injury, illness and/or abuse and neglect are adhered to.
OR EDUCATION: 1 year of graduate-level education from an accredited college or university which is directly related to the work of the position. NOTE: you must submit a copy of your transcripts.
OR COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: A combination of graduate-level education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. NOTE: You must submit copies of your transcripts.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:
FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year at the GS-05 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-06 level. INTERNAL CANDIDATES: One year at the GS-05 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-07 level. EXTERNAL CANDIDATES: One year at the GS-06 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-07 level. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks. NOTE: Applicants applying as VEOA candidates who are current GS civil service employees or are prior GS civil service employees within the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements.
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I am a current permanent or former federal employee with less than 52 weeks break in the competitive service and I am applying for this position to be considered as a:
All current federal employees must have a minimum performance rating of acceptable or higher to be considered for placement. Current federal employees who have a current unacceptable performance rating will be excluded from consideration. Note: Failure to select one of the below responses will render you ineligible for further consideration.
Select the one statement that best describes the education and/or experience that you possess that demonstrates your ability to perform the work of an Educational Technician (Child Development) at the GS-1702-05 grade level or equivalent pay band in the Federal Service. Your resume must support the response you select.
Select the one statement that best describes the education and/or experience that you possess that demonstrates your ability to perform the work of an Educational Technician (Child Development) at the GS-1702-06 grade level or equivalent pay band in the Federal Service. Your resume must support the response you select.
Select the one statement that best describes the education and/or experience that you possess that demonstrates your ability to perform the work of an Educational Technician (Child Development) at the GS-1702-07 grade level or equivalent pay band in the Federal Service. Your resume must support the response you select.
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