Supervisory Training Specialist

All qualification requirements must be met by 06/10/2024 (the closing date of the announcement). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. To ensure full credit for your experience, please indicate the start and end dates (month, day, and year) of employment, the number of hours worked per week, and the location of employment in your resume. Qualification claims will be subject to verification.

Specialized Experience:

This vacancy is being announced at two (2) grade levels:

FP-03

Specialized Experience at the FP-3 (GS-13): To be minimally qualified for this position at the FP-3 (GS-13), you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression, FP-4 grade or GS-12 grade which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as: Experience developing or approving requirements for personnel, resources and material as a basis for program planning and budgeting. Experience identifying new training requirements, and/or required updates to existing training materials and assessing facilitator/instructor delivery and development requirements; Experience resolves training matters that are controversial, complicated, or set general precedent regarding programmatic procedure or policy changes; Experience providing technical, and policy support and guidance to stakeholders engaging in training and program activities; Experience managing selection, training, mentoring and evaluation of training facilitators and coordinators; Experience performing administrative and human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised.

Education cannot be substituted.

FP-04

Specialized Experience at the FP-4 (GS-12): To be minimally qualified for this position at the FP-4 (GS-12), you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression, FP-5 grade or GS-9 which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as: Experience developing new concepts, ideas, and methods to strengthen program management; Experience developing training strategies, plans, training material and course information; Experience overseeing development of related materials, forms, training aids/manuals, and evaluation criteria; Experience coordinating program efforts with internal and external stakeholders; Experience developing work improvement plans and recommending personnel actions.

or

Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related

Please note:

• If qualifying based on education or a combination of education and experience, please review the "Education" section of this announcement.
• Past experience that satisfies the Specialized Experience MUST be well documented within your resume. Failure to provide this information in your resume with corresponding start and end dates (month, day, and year) of employment, the number of hours worked per week, and location of employment may result in disqualification from further consideration.
• Specialized Experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector, or through volunteer work done with National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) or other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
• One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis.
• Additional information on qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM web site.
• Peace Corps employees are employed using the Foreign Personnel (FP) pay scale. The FP pay plan does not follow the same structure as the GS pay plan. In the FP pay plan, as the grade-level numbers decrease the level/pay for the position increases. The FP-09 is the lowest entry-level grade and the FP-01 is the highest senior-level grade.