Requisition No: 829892

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: OPS EDUCATION CURRICULUM DEVELOPER

Pay Plan: Temp

Position Number: 60932219

Salary: $30 - 35 per hour

Posting Closing Date: 05/29/2024

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OPS EDUCATION CURRICULUM DEVELOPER

Office of Quality and Innovation (OQI)

Department of Children and Families

Position Number: 60932219

Open Competitive

Current employees will be compensated in accordance with the DCF salary policy.

Annual Salary: $30.00 - 35.00 per hour.

Location: Statewide

What you will do:

Summary

The Office of Quality and Innovation serves as the catalyst for ensuring high levels of performance across the state to support a strong workforce and positive outcomes for Florida families. The office seeks collaborative, action-focused, and transparent professionals dedicated to putting quality at the center of serving families.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Serving as an instructional designer on the Curriculum Development Team (CDT) creating immersive educational experiences for the workforce at large.
• Using instructional design methodologies to develop and/or evaluate various workforce learning resources such as compliance curriculum, training programs, and specialty courses based on the analysis of department needs; primarily focusing on maximizing learning and knowledge transfer.
• Create engaging learning activities and compelling course content that enhances retention.
• Ensuring training meets accessibility, usability, and functionality standards for classroom, online, self-study, and blended learning opportunities.
• Piloting new trainings when appropriate to ensure necessary changes and revisions are made before implementation.
• Assists program offices in the planning and development of pilot learning programs, evaluates results, and uses the findings to establish new or modified learning programs.
• Participating in or facilitating curriculum review committees with other program training managers or coordinators, to collaborate about the needs of training across program areas and the Department and identify target audience training needs.
• Collaborating with the Education Curriculum Analyst to collect training materials and coordinate a revision schedule when curriculum needs to be updated.
• Reviews historical training to determine if training will benefit from eLearning technology resources.
• Support the activities of maintaining and updating a training resource library with all training collected from program offices and hospitals statewide.
• Collaborates with subject matter experts to ensure curriculum developed is in accordance with Department policy as well as Florida Statutes/Florida Administrative Code.
• Supports the Education Technology Consultant to validate and test SCORM files loaded into the Department’s Learning Management System (LMS) My FL Learn, ensuring all eLearning courses meet accessibility and functionality criteria before deploying statewide.
• Creating training for statewide implementation and setting expectations for which parts of the curriculum must be covered statewide.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2 years of experience in instructional design/curriculum development for a workforce
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, Authoring Software such as Articulate

Preferred:

• M.S. in instructional design, curriculum development, or related area
• 3-5 years of experience in instructional design/curriculum development for a workforce

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience in training and instructional systems design.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with all levels of leadership, management, and staff.
• Experience with adult learning theory.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint (Office Suite) and Microsoft Teams are required.
• Excellent skills with Articulate Storyline and design tools such as Canva, Vyond, Well Said Labs, etc.
• Capable of working with a high degree of independence, determining work priorities, and ensuring proper completion of work assignments.
• Exceptional critical thinking skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills that include the ability to teach, coach and mentor workforce.
• Passion for learning and improving training programs and processes.
• Strong communication skills, verbal, and written.
• Knowledge of mission and vision of the Department of Children and Families.
• Understanding of continuous quality improvement processes and integration across programs.
• Ability to fact-find, identify trends, root causes, and effective practices from data.
• Proficient in systems-thinking across operational locations, department programs, and government agencies.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to make decisions and recommend solutions.
• Proficient in collaborating within a cross-functional team.
• Consistently demonstrate a high level of professionalism in interactions and personal presentation.
• Demonstrate respect for others and professional interest through speech, nonverbal communication, active listening, and cultural competence.

Candidate Profile (application) must be completed in its entirety.

• Include supervisor names and phone numbers for all periods of employment.
• Account for and explain any gaps in employment so that the hiring process is not delayed.
• Experience, education, training, knowledge, skills and/or abilities as well as responses to pre-qualifying questions must be verifiable to meet the minimum qualifications.
• It is unacceptable to use the statement “See Resume” in place of entering work history.
• If you experience problems applying online, please call the People First Service Center at (877) 562-7287.

Benefits of Working for the State of Florida:

Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits.

For a more complete list of benefits, visit www.mybenefits.myflorida.com.

About Department of Children and Families:

Mission:The mission of the Department of Children and Families is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.

Vision:We are a highly skilled workforce committed to empowering people with complex and varied needs to achieve the best outcomes for themselves and their families. In collaboration with community stakeholders, we will deliver world class and continuously improving service focused on providing the people we serve with the level and quality that we would demand and expect for our own families.

Values:A workforce that operates with integrity maintains loyalty to a code of ethics that requires the courage to take responsibility for providing the highest quality of service to the vulnerable. We are a solutions-focused learning organization built on a foundation of transparency in action and accountability of results. Both within the organization and among our stakeholders, we thrive in a culture of respect for diversity of opinion that is nurtured through open communication. High performing and committed, we are unified in our goal of excellence in achieving quality outcomes for those we serve.

To learn more please visit https://www.myflfamilies.com/.

• If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be suspended or voided, and you will be required to repay all benefits received depending upon the date of your retirement.
• The position will perform all job tasks in accordance with laws, rules, regulations, policies, and requirements applicable to state and federal laws or procedures.

We hire only U.S. citizens and lawfully authorized alien workers.

Participation in the State of Florida Direct Deposit Program is required as a condition of employment per F.S. 110.113, and enrollment must be completed within the first 30 calendar days of your appointment.

SELECTIVE SERVICE: Male candidates born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion into an authorized position unless they are registered with the Selective Service System (SSS) before their 26th birthday or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS. Verification of Selective Service registration will be conducted prior to hire. For more information, please visit the SSS website: http://www.sss.gov.

BACKGROUND SCREENING REQUIREMENT: It is the policy of the Florida Department of Children and Families that any applicant being considered for employment must successfully complete a State and National criminal history check as a condition of employment before beginning employment, and also be screened in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 435, F.S., and, if applicable, Chapter 408, F.S.

No applicant may begin employment until the background screening results are received, reviewed for any disqualifying offenses, and approved by the Agency. Background screening shall include, but not be limited to, fingerprinting for State and Federal criminal records checks through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and may include local criminal history checks through local law enforcement agencies.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.