Educational Technician

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 11/25/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted.

An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected.

For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience.

Minimum Qualification Requirements: To qualify for this position, you must meet the following: To qualify for this position at the GS-07 level: Specialized Experience: To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors).

This experience includes activities such as: Assisted in developing and presenting environmental educational programs to school groups; writing and editing educational materials for teachers; coordinating and assisting in developing training for others involved in conducting outdoor/environmental education for student groups.

You must include hours per week worked. -OR- Education: Successful completion of at least one full year of graduate level education in fields such as education, curriculum and instruction, history, physical sciences, social sciences, anthropology, parks and recreation or other related fields. You must include transcripts. -OR- Combination of education and experience as listed above. To combine education and experience, first take the percentage of completed graduate education.

Then take the number of months of full-time experience and divide by 12 months. Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include hours per week and transcripts. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

As a Education Technician, you will perform the following duties: - Create curriculum-based educational program relevant to the park's interpretive themes to include guided talks/walks, activities, and demonstrations. - Develop and present educational programs using appropriate techniques for age group, topic, and a diverse audience - Assists in the research and development of curriculum-based activities and support materials such as student lesson plans and guides, teacher workshops, pre-post visit activities and field trip orientations. - Participates in special youth and family programs and other community outreach activities as needed, including creation of park social media posts, partner newsletter and press release submissions, and participation in interpretive planning during off education season. - Participation in park's historic weapons program, including attending training requiring travel outside the park and attaining historic weapons status through certification; firing historic weapons for public education and interpretation programs and assisting the historic weapons supervisor. - Maintains traveling trunk and digital loan reservation system for school groups and assists Education Coordinator with field trip reservation system. Performs general office tasks and duties as assigned, including writing letters and documents, completing NPS forms and keeping with email and voice mail for program.