Training Specialist - Research

The purpose of this position is to support the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) mission of advancing post deployment health through education - clinical consultation - and research by planning - developing - delivering - and evaluating training for clinicians - care teams - and Veterans. This position is within VA New Jersey Health Care System in East Orange - NJ.

To qualify for this position - you must meet the requirements below. Selective Placement Factors (SPF) are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for the position. Applicants who do not meet the SPF are ineligible for further consideration. The following question is a prerequisite to appointments. Do you possess demonstrable knowledge of military environmental exposures. Examples that show this knowledge include: completing a specialized course of study in military environmental exposures that demonstrates progressive learning in military environmental exposures;

or comprehensive training in multiple occupational and environmental exposures including scientific understanding of health effects of these exposures?

Note:

please be sure that this is identifiable in your resume - we cannot assume any information that is not listed specifically. ~AND~ SPECIALIZED

EXPERIENCE:

Possess one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in Federal service that demonstrated a practical knowledge of the subject area of the Training Specialist
- Research
- War Related Illness and of the methods and techniques of instruction. Examples of qualifying specialized experience - earned in a clinical or healthcare environment - include teaching or instructing in an adult education program - secondary school - college - military installation - or industrial establishment in the appropriate field(s); supervising or administering a training program; developing or reviewing training/course materials - aids - devices - etc.;

evaluating training results; working in the occupation or subject-matter field of the position to be filled that required training or instructing others on a regular basis; designing and developing learning solutions using adult learning theory; producing instructor and participant guides; facilitating live training (virtual - webinar - hybrid - and classroom) to multi-disciplinary clinical audiences; managing questions and answers for high-volume national sessions;

implementing multi-level training evaluation; managing enrollment - completions - transcript courses - and learning records; and/or working as a subject-matter expert in the field of Training Specialist
- Research
- War Related Illness. This experience must be detailed in your resume to receive credit. OR EDUCATION SUBSTITUTION:
Possess a master's degree or 2 years of progressively higher-level graduation education leading to such a degree with a major study in education or a subject area related to the position. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent one (1) year of full-time study.

(TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) OR COMBINATION OF

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Possess an equivalent combination of successfully completed post-post bachelor's degree and experience - as described above - and may be used to meet total qualification requirements for this grade level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grade GS-9. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) For more information on these qualification standards - please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at…