Educational Technician (Child Development)

• Provides age appropriate developmental care for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years of age.
• Uses initiative to design and implement a variety of activity plans to stimulate and sustain the interest of children and to contribute to their social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development.
• Prepares and implements screening procedures and enrollment procedures for children with special needs. Communicates with parents and other agencies providing specialized services to these children to assist in the preparation and implementation of specialized intervention programs, as necessary.
• Provides technical guidance and leadership to junior employees assigned to assist with program activities and participates in special projects.
• Arranges room and play materials to accommodate the daily schedule. Sets up and displays bulletin boards.

FOR CONSIDERATION AT THE GS-05 LEVEL
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-04, or equivalent in other pay systems. Examples of specialized experience include knowledge of an extensive body of child development program rules and procedures requiring extended training and experience to plan and perform a wide variety of interrelated child care assignments and resolve a wide range of problems; knowledge of early child development theory, methodology, and practices relating to physical, intellectual, social, and nutritional development to effectively interact with the children and design and implement activity plans and specialized programs depending on the individual needs of the child; knowledge of Child Development Center procedures to ensure processes such as receiving children from parents ;maintaining accurate count of children, and seeing children home at the end of the day are properly carried out, and to ensure established procedures for preventing, treating, and reporting all child injury, illness, and/or abuse are adhered to; ability to promote and foster effective working relationships with others to interact effectively and appropriately with the children and ensure effective communication with parents; ability to communicate effectively and be an effective role model to provide technical guidance and leadership to lower graded employees.

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EDUCATION: Successful completion 4-years of education above the high school level, in any field for which high school graduation or the equivalent is the normal prerequisite, obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university. NOTE: you must submit a copy of your transcripts.

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COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: A combination of post high-school education in excess of the first 60 semester hours (i.e., beyond the second year) and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. NOTE: You must submit copies of your transcripts.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:

1. Knowledge of training in Early Childhood Education
2. Knowledge of Child Development Center Regulations, procedures, programs, processes and operations
3. Knowledge of early child development theory, methodology, and practices relating to physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development.
4. Ability to ensure the safety and hygiene of children through constant supervision, effective arrangement of space, and proper management of equipment.
5. Ability to develop creative and innovative activity and special program plans
6. Ability to promote and foster effective working relationships with others and to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
7. Ability to gather, maintain and compile pertinent data

1. Knowledge of early childhood education, as well as practical knowledge of elementary education/youth development, or related field to promote and foster effective working relationships with children.
2. Knowledge of physical, intellectual, social, emotional and nutritional stages of development of young children in applying basic child development principles, concepts and practices.
3. Knowledge of comprehensive child development requirements, policies, procedures, and processes. Knowledge of appropriate early childhood guidance, practices, techniques and programs to include safety and security regulations, practices, and procedures.
4. Skill in communicating factual and procedural information clearly, orally and in writing.
5. Ability to ensure the safety and hygiene of children through constant supervision, effective arrangement or space and proper management of equipment.
6. Ability to analyze, plan, and adjust work operations of one or more organizational segments to meet program requirements and objectives within available resources.
7. Ability to promote and foster effective working relationships with others and to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
8. Ability and skill to lead subordinate employees and foster effective working relationship with others

• One year at the GS-05 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-06 level.
• INTERNAL CANDIDATES: One year at the GS-05 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-07 level.
• EXTERNAL CANDIDATES: One year at the GS-06 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-07 level.