- Position Title
- EDUCATION SERVICES SPECIALIST (TITLE 32)
- Agency
- Army National Guard Units
- Announcement Number
- MO-12620063-AR-24-456 Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Thursday, November 21, 2024 to Thursday, November 20, 2025
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MILITARY MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION.
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Assessment 1
Respond to all the questions below. For each question, choose the response below that best describes your experience and/or training. Mark only one response for each question. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provide in your resume or application and information your references provide.
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Do you possess a degree that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours appropriate to the position to be filled in one or a combination of the areas described below. At least one course must have been from (1) or (2) below:
- Tests and measurement: Study of the selection, evaluation, administration, scoring, interpretation, and uses of group and individual aptitude, proficiency, interest, and other tests.
- 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.
- Educational program administration: Study of the foundation and methods in organizing for adult and continuing education programs.
- Curriculum development or design: Study of the principles and techniques for development of curricula for adult or vocational education programs.
- Teaching methods: Study of teaching strategies and learning styles of the adult learner.
- 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.
- Career planning: Study of career development, learning activities, systems, approaches, program coordination, use of educational and community resources, and vocational counseling systems.
- 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.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
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Do you possess 12 months of specialized experience which provided you with progressive work assignments in the education services series or performing the functions of counseling and education, career planning, testing and administration of day-to-day activities of the program? Experience establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with individuals and institutions having different interest. Experience which afforded you a wide exposure to educational materials at the secondary level and/or alternative adult education resources. Experience which demonstrates you can organize and develop clear and meaningful written communications such as reports and studies and have the ability to present ideas orally in a clear and convincing manner.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Provides oversight as an advisor and consultant serving personnel for off duty civilian training and education that may be pursuing programs at vocational, high school, baccalaureate, or post graduate level.
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Provides advisory services to the education services officer, recruiting and retention command, and battalion and unit commanders concerning the educational needs and incentive eligibility of their assigned personnel and customer support.
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Maintains contact with commanders apprising their staff and assigned troops of the educational opportunities available through the General Education Development (GED) and Army Career Education System (ACES) Programs.
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Investigates educational problem areas to identify special and recurring needs of personnel of serviced organizations.
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Recommends actions or special programs which were necessary to provide for the needs of units or individuals.
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Functions as the principal liaison between students and participating public and private educational institutions for the purpose of negotiating agreements for a variety of traditional, non-traditional, and special purpose education contracts.
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Arranges and negotiates with the institutions to have credit given for military experience.
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Assists in arranging summaries of experience and assists the institutions to better understand and evaluate the experience.
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Negotiates for education programs specifically designed for military personnel working full time.
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Monitors contracts.
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Performs educational and vocational counseling which consists of advising and assisting personnel on individual programs of study available, to include High School Equivalency (GED), correspondence, self-teaching, new and innovative/nontraditional college to include Associate, Baccalaureate degree programs, first Masters or Professional degree which meet their academic and vocational requirements.
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Assists personnel in selecting the appropriate course of study through information obtained through interviews, educational record research, to include military credit conversion (ACE), and an analysis of life experience.
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Assists in completing enrollment applications as needed.
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Estimates, obtains, and executes the necessary program funds and determines their allocation.
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Arranges for tuition assistance for the student.
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Coordinates with appropriate State, local, and institutional authorities to assist service members in securing Federal financial aid through such programs as the Pell Grant, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG), College Work-Study (CWS), National Direct Student Loan (NDSL), and Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL), etc.
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Assists personnel with entrance and enrollment application, when necessary.
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Provides assistance and data to the Education Services Office (ESO) for inclusion in the budget submission as it related to the education program.
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Provides oversight for education programs, funds, and/or accounts.
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Serves as the coordinator and Alternate Test Control Officer (ATCO) for the DANTES testing section to include ordering, receiving, accounting, and safeguarding test material with appropriate security measures; and disseminated program guidance for examinations.
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Determines individual readiness to take examinations, administering General Equivalency Diploma (GED), DANTES Subject Standardized Tests (DSST), American College Testing/Proficiency Examination Program (ACT/PEP), Army Personnel Testing (APT) and College Level Examination Program (CLEP), general, and subject examinations.
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Supervises additional test control officers and satellite testing sites.
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Develops, collects, analyzes, and disseminates data on educational and incentive programs and entrance requirements for the ESO.
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Maintains files and libraries of current educational material, including catalogs of colleges and universities, military and government sponsored education programs, occupational books, periodicals, manuals, and other vocational materials concerning opportunities and requirements for specific vocations/occupations.
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Assists military personnel whose records do not indicate successful completion of civilian education requirements for commissioning Officers, appointing or commissioning of Warrant Officers, or Enlisted Soldiers who have not achieved equivalency of nontraditional educational means.
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Evaluates service school training, subject examinations, college transcripts, College Level Examination Program-General Examinations to ascertain the presence of the minimum required hours in required areas.
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Where evaluation of credentials indicates accumulation of fewer than the number of credits required, assists individuals in preparing a program that will enable them to meet requirements.
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Provides oversight for the receipt of evaluations and certification of transcripts.
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Coordinates with State Recruiting and Retention Manager and Incentives Manager and assisted with recruiting and incentive programs in educational institutions in which National Guard programs were established.
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Promotes interest and participation in educational services and activities by speaking to groups concerning education opportunities.
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Researches and prepares response to official inquiries for supervisor (i.e. Inspector General, congressional inquiries, etc).
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Responsible for and oversees the direction of the Incentives Section and functions as the technical expert.
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Oversees the performance of document handling, records maintenance, and the Information Management and Reporting Center (iMARC).
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Directs staff in performance of periodic record reviews and inventories to ensure total record accountability.
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Ensures staff members provide Soldiers with information regarding their incentive selections (i.e. enlistment bonuses, retention bonuses, conversion bonuses, student loans, health profession loans (for both Officer and Enlisted).
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Do you certify that all of your responses to this questionnaire are true and accurate; and do you accept that if your supporting documentation does not support one or more of your responses to the questionnaire that your application may be rated lower or you may be removed from further consideration?