Training Instructor
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The Office of Human Resources is hiring Training Instructors (GS-1712-13/14 - from $114,970 to $181,216 annually) in Lakewood (Colorado), Washington (DC), and Atlanta (Georgia). Apply today by visiting https://www.usajobs.gov/job/819017200 (open to U.S. Citizens). This job announcement closes on 11/21/2024 (but submit your application as soon as possible to receive the best consideration).
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The selectee serves as a Training Instructor, supporting supervisory and leadership training and initiatives within the Talent Development Division of the Office of Human Resources. The training and initiatives are designed to prepare employees to become future managers and executives and lead while performing their responsibilities. The selected employee performs program management duties related to the development and delivery of training courses and programs.
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As a Training Instructor, you will:
- Demonstrate a strong ability to communicate in writing for the purpose of preparing educational content; instructor and participant training materials; interactive exercises; case studies; scenarios; workshops; evaluative reports; and proposals for new or modified training.
- Design, develop, and instruct highly interactive training using adult learning principles and instructional design methods to employees and managers to advance their knowledge and understanding of leadership and supervisory skills and competencies.
- Conduct highly interactive instruction using blended learning formats, to include classroom, videoconference, and web-conference based instruction.
- Conduct formative and summative course evaluations to ensure content and construct validity and transfer of learning. Ensure course learning objectives, organizational training requirements, and agency mission and goals are validated and incorporated into the course design process.
- Facilitate focus groups, team-building, and strategic planning sessions. Coordinate facilitation services for technical subject matter areas.
The ideal candidate for this position is a professional with experience in designing, developing, teaching/facilitating, and evaluating/measuring the effectiveness of educational and/or developmental programs in accordance with adult learning principles and instructional systems design models.
Additionally, the ideal candidate has a passion for knowledge transfer and facilitating learning in the areas of leadership and organizational development.
The ideal candidate has experience and is certified in teaching and/or developing learning content and has experience performing this work individually as well as serving as a Contracting Officer Representative.
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Colorado, a western U.S. state, has a diverse landscape of arid desert, river canyons and snow-covered Rocky Mountains, which are partly protected by Rocky Mountain National Park. Elsewhere, Mesa Verde National Park features Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings. Perched a mile above sea level, Denver, Colorado’s capital, and largest city, features a vibrant downtown area.
Lakewood is the home rule municipality that is the most populous municipality in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 155,984 at the 2020 U.S. Census, making Lakewood the fifth most populous city in Colorado and the 167th most populous city in the United States.
Find FHWA's Office of Human Resources at 12300 West Dakota Avenue in Lakewood, CO - one of three locations for this vacancy announcement.
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Washington, DC, the U.S. capital, is a compact city on the Potomac River, bordering the states of Maryland and Virginia. It’s defined by imposing neoclassical monuments and buildings – including the iconic ones that house the federal government’s 3 branches: the Capitol, White House, and Supreme Court. It's also home to iconic museums and performing-arts venues such as the Kennedy Center.
Find FHWA's Office of Human Resources in the U.S. Department of Transportation's headquarters at 1200 New Jersey Avenue Southeast in Washington, DC - one of three locations for this vacancy announcement.
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Georgia is a southeastern U.S. state whose terrain spans coastal beaches, farmland, and mountains. Capital city Atlanta is home of the Georgia Aquarium and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, dedicated to the African American leader’s life and times. The city of Savannah is famed for its 18th- and 19th-century architecture and leafy public squares. Augusta hosts the Masters golf tournament.
Atlanta is the capital of the U.S. state of Georgia. It played an important part in both the Civil War and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Atlanta History Center chronicles the city's past, and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site is dedicated to the African American leader’s life and times. Downtown, Centennial Olympic Park, built for the 1996 Olympics, encompasses the massive Georgia Aquarium.
Find FHWA's Office of Human Resources at 75 Ted Turner Drive in Atlanta, GA - one of three locations for this vacancy announcement.