Educational Aide (Pre-Kindergarten)
Support Pre-Kindergarten and general education classrooms by assisting with administrative tasks, student monitoring, and personal care under educator guidance.
Responsibilities
- Perform administrative tasks such as attendance records, filing, scheduling, and reviewing assignments.
- Participate in all home visits and school-related meetings.
- Support educational efforts in the Pre-Kindergarten classroom and general education classroom as needed.
- Work with students in accordance with plans developed by the specialist and educator.
- Monitor students during various phases of school day.
- Provide assistance in toileting, feeding, eating and personal hygiene.
Requirements
Who May Apply
Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
- Current Competitive Service Civilian DoWEA Employee within the Commuting Area
- Current Excepted Service DoWEA Employee within the Commuting Area
- Excepted Service Overseas Family Member Appointment
- Family Member Preference (FMP) for Overseas Employment
- Military Spouse Preference (MSP) for Overseas Employment
- Priority Placement Program, DoW Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible
- Priority Placement Program, DoW MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement
- Priority Placement Program, DoW Retained Grade Preference Eligible
Qualifications
To qualify, you must meet the requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
General Experience: One year of general experience. General experience is progressively responsible clerical, office, or other work that indicates ability to acquire the particular knowledge and skills needed to perform the duties of an Educational Aide (Prekindergarten) such as preparing letters, schedules and other documents through the use of a personal computer or assisting with the preparation of instructional materials.
OR Education: Two years of education above the high school level obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university.
OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of by 60. Add the two percentages.
Evaluation Areas
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
- Communications and Media
- Interpersonal Skills
- Standards
- Teaching Others
Benefits
Additional Info
Locations
- Camp Foster, Japan
- Kadena Air Base Okinawa, Japan
- Kue, Japan
- Makiminato Okinawa, Japan
- Okinawa Island, Japan
Additional Information
- Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
- Pay retention may be offered to selected applicants for positions at overseas locations.
- Applicants must comply with the Exceptional Family Member Program requirements.
- Access to military medical facilities is on a space-available and reimbursable basis.
- School year part-time seasonal work schedules include periods in non-pay/non-duty status during holidays and recess periods.
- Applicants must be U.S. citizens who are not considered Ordinarily Resident under the applicable Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA).
- Non-U.S. citizens may be considered after meeting specific requirements (valid green card, SSN, 3+ years U.S. residency).
- This announcement establishes an applicant pool for positions that may become available throughout the school year.
- Positions will be filled based upon need and request from the school.
- Applicants must select the school location(s) and position(s) they wish to be considered.
- Locality pay does not apply in the overseas area.
- This position is not covered by a bargaining unit.
- All candidates must reside within the local commuting area where the position is located.
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