Instructional Systems Specialist

• Evaluate new policies, training products, regulations, and doctrine for applicability and effectiveness in improving the Proponent Sponsored Engineer Corps Training (PROSPECT) program.
• Function as the Program of Instruction (POI) Project Delivery Team Lead responsible for the development, coordination, and delivery of training.
• Participate in technical evaluation of contractor’s proposal to determine if it will satisfy educational and training requirements, as well as targeted accreditation standards.
• Maintain and/or update PROSPECT training directory, to include the evaluation and incorporation of government and commercially produced training courses.
• Lead the coordination and development effort for new PROSPECT courses based on needs analyses and new requirements throughout the agency.
• Research training available outside the agency to determine if a new course is required and if the development and execution of the new course will be cost effective.
• Create all training products in the Training Development Capability (TDC) database, the Army’s training product repository.

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Position requires Temporary Duty Travel (TDY) up to 25% of the time.

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

• Current Department of Army Civilian Employees
• Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)
• Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
• Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
• Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473
• Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible
• Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible
• Reinstatement
• Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998

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, Ameri Corps) 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. Additional information about transcripts is

Basic Requirement for Instructional Systems Specialist:
Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours appropriate to the work of the position to be filled. The course work must have included study in at least four of the following five areas: (1) Learning theory, psychology of learning, educational psychology:
Study of learning theories as they relate to the systematic design, development, and validation of instructional material. (2) Instructional design practices:
Study of the principles and techniques used in designing training programs, developing design strategy and models, and applying design methods to the improvement of instructional effectiveness. (3) Educational evaluation:
Study of the techniques for evaluating the effectiveness…