External Training Options Instructor - #WWRW0142

Title: External Training Options Instructor - #WWRW0142

State Role Title: Trainer and Instructor II

Hiring Range: Anticipated starting salary: $48,648 commensurate with experience.

Pay Band: 4

Agency: Dept for Aging & Rehab Svcs

Location: Wilson Wkfc Rehab Ctn

Agency Website: https://www.wwrc.virginia.gov/

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties:

The Vocational Training Department at Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center seeks an External Training Options Instructor. This position will instruct persons with disabilities in trade-related skills needed to prepare them for occupational training, on-the-job training, post-secondary education, or employment; provide supervision of the instructional area, develop goals, evaluate progress, and initiate intervention strategies for each student; and serve as an instructor within the External Training Options occupational training area for the purpose of teaching students the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to a variety of different occupations. This position is designated to provide first aid, CPR, and AED only as collateral duty to routine work assignments, responding solely to injuries resulting from workplace incidents, generally at the location where the incident occurred, until emergency personnel arrive on the scene.

Minimum Qualifications:

Knowledge of career and technology skills and competencies in the multiple industries, teaching methods and techniques, special education regulations, behavior modification techniques, employment adaptations and accommodations, disability characteristics, assessment techniques.

Skill in: classroom management, industrial design and development, communication, curriculum implementation, planning, and instruction.

Ability to: teach students with disabilities, work with others, make decisions, perform problem solving, work independently, obtain and maintain work-based learning sites with local businesses and employers, develop individualized educational plans

Additional Considerations:

Ability to obtain and maintain work-based learning sites with local businesses and employers. Endorsement in Career and Technical Education, adult education, or Special Education.

Special Instructions:

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

o This has been designated a sensitive position under Va. Code § 2.2-1201.1.
o A fingerprint-based criminal history check will be required of the finalist candidate.

Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during the application and/or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act. Contact recruitment@dars.virginia.gov for assistance.

Minorities, Individuals with disabilities, Veterans, AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and other National Service Alumni are encouraged to apply.

To Apply:

Equal Opportunity Employer State applications will only be accepted as submitted online by 11:55 p.m. on the closing date through the Commonwealth of Virginia’s New Recruitment Management System. Mailed, emailed, faxed, or hand delivered applications and/or résumés will not be accepted. PageUp will provide you with a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

Contact Information:

Name: Human Resources

Email: Recruitment@dars.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.