PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND IMPROVEMENT SPECIALIST WITH SECURITY CLEARANCE

Duties * Implement and sustain a collaborative coaching approach for district and school leaders to become more reflective practitioners and support their roles as instructional leaders. * 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. * Conduct root cause analysis and identify discrepancies between goals and current status and develop solutions in order to stimulate achievement. * Identify training and education gaps and provide guidance and direction for the development of intervention strategies and professional learning opportunities. * 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 face-to-face, blended, virtual professional development to build capacity of district staff, principals, and teacher leaders. * 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 or probationary period may be required. * Appointment subject to a suitability/fitness determination, as determined by a background investigation. * 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. * A secret security clearance is required. Qualifications Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. * Current Competitive Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Civilian Employee * Current Excepted Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Employee * US citizens *In order to determine if you meet any of the eligibilities above, please review the required documents listed in the announcement questionnaire. In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. 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. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Basic Requirements for Professional Practice and Improvement Specialist: Education: Master's degree (or higher degree) in education administration, educational leadership, professional development or curriculum and instruction OR a Master's degree in Education. And General Experience: At least 5 years of experience in teaching, educational research, development of curriculum and instructional materials, education assessment and evaluation, professional development, special education, educational administration, or comparable experience which clearly demonstrated success in applying the principles, methods, and techniques of education, and provided familiarity with current developments in teaching, learning, instructional leadership, and professional development. The general experience must have been gained while employed in a K-12 setting or K-12 administrative/headquarters office. And Specialized Experience: At least 2 years of experience beyond the teaching level developing and designing professional learning (e.g. Instructional Specialist/Designer) for K-12 district or school leaders/administrators; OR demonstrated leader/administrator experience supervising K-12 educators in professional growth and administering and supporting K-12 instructional programs. The specialized experience must have been gained in a K-12 setting or K-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 CommunicationEducation FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html Additional information * Applicants must comply with the Exceptional Family Member Program requirements as outlined in the DoD Instruction 1315.19 . * Applicants must be U.S. citizens who are not considered Ordinarily Resident under the applicable Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). An ordinarily resident is anyone who has lived in the host country longer than the allowed number of days without being a member of the forces assigned, civilian component or a family member of either the aforementioned or who has obtained a work permit for any duration. Ordinarily Resident restrictions apply and vary depending on the host nation. * Pay retention may be offered to successful applicants for positions at overseas locations. For this provision to apply to employees already overseas, the selected individual would have to require a permanent change of station move and would have to be selected as a result of a recruitment effort that had been extended outside of the overseas command involved. * 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 initially recruited from the United States may receive certain foreign area benefits such as: Living Quarters Allowance (LQA) or government quarters, home leave, etc. (Subject to approval). Overseas allowances may be authorized in accordance with Department of State Standardized Regulation (DSSR) and DoDI 1400.25 volume 1250. http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/1400.25-V1250.pdf * Selectees recruited outside the U.S. will have their eligibility for foreign area benefits determined at the time of hire. * For positions in a foreign country, that country's laws or international agreements may have a direct impact on the ability of an employee's same sex domestic partner or spouse to accompany the employee and receive certain benefits. If you believe you may be affected by these laws and agreements, you should familiarize yourself with relevant information before applying for or accepting this position. * If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application . You will find additional information about this vacancy in the How You Will Be Evaluated section. * Benefits Review our benefits How You Will Be Evaluated You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your résumé and supporting documentation will be compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If, after reviewing your résumé and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. Basis for Rating: Qualified candidates will be ranked based on responses provided to the questions found in the assessment questionnaire. Applicants that are not current DoDEA employees with veterans preference are listed ahead of applicants with no preference with the same ratings. Points will be added to an applicant's score if entitled to preference. Additional Information regarding overseas appointments: * If an employee brings a child to an overseas location and that child is entitled to attend a DoD school on