EDUCATION SERVICES OFFICER

Description:

This National Guard position is for a EDUCATION SERVICES OFFICER, Position Description Number T5216000 (T5) / D2008000 (T32) and is part of the Oregon National Guard Joint Force Headquarters JFHQ, National Guard.

Requirements:

GENERAL and SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
Work involves administering, supervising, promoting, coordinating, conducting, and evaluating programs, activities, or opportunities designed to provide individualized career-related or self-development education plans.

One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in duties that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in duties that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled.

OR

B. 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree

OR

C. A combination of Experience as described in "A" above and Education as described in "B" above.


Basic Requirements:

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.