Human Services Developer 2

Within the Bureau of Professional Development organizes and supports the work related to early childhood professional learning:

Collaborates across child serving state agencies to coordinate the development of state sponsored courses based on theories of adult learning; Collaborates across child serving state agencies to coordinate requirements and development of learning management systems and registration systems;

Serves as direct contact for day-to-day activities with vendors related to curriculum, assessment, standards, child development, early care and education administration, family engagement, and other topics related to early care and education professionals, and professional learning; Creates/updates guidance and resource tools for the internal development of high quality professional learning; Serves as the instructional design lead for course development; Provides technical assistance through verbal and written formats for internal and external professional learning development; Provides technical assistance to state trainers; Maintains detailed records for professional learning lifecycles; Demonstrates a working knowledge of early childhood education best practices, including curriculum and assessment standards and practices; Leads the design of new courses and oversees their development to ensure quality of content and delivery; Researches, compiles data, analyzes, reviews, interprets and completes reports regarding the trainings provided; and creates and provides training to Department staff on course creation within the Learning Management System.

Within the Ohio Department of Children and Youth, works to ensure professional learning includes the implementation of adult learning theory:

Identifies, develops and implements quality professional learning opportunities by collaborating with subject matter experts as the instructional design lead during all phases of training and development for new and redeveloped early care and education courses; Ensures professional learning initiatives promote the improvement of early childhood growth and development and daily practice of early learning professionals; Catalogs all available professional learning experiences created and/or required by the Department; Establishes internal policies and protocol for collaborating with stakeholders (e.g., resource and referral agencies and education service centers) in the identification, creation and implementation of identified professional learning experiences; Design opportunities for stakeholder input and feedback to evaluate professional learning experiences; Implement data systems to manage work and document stakeholder input; Creates/updates guidance and resource tools for the most effective use of the Department's Learning Management System as a means for engaging learners in an online learning system and a hybrid professional learning system (online and face-to-face); Designs and delivers internal training related to usage of the Department's Learning Management System, as needed and in various formats; Creates technical and instructional design development criteria based on research and ensures professional development standards are met, as measured by the professional learning Quality Matters rubric; and manages currently published courses, the process for updating courses and ensures that courses are aligned to evidence-based practices.

Performs other duties as assigned:

Remains current on early childhood education research and evidence based practices, adult professional learning theories and online learning systems by attending professional conferences and workshops; Travels statewide for presentations, conferences, trainings, and meetings.

At the State of Ohio, we take care of the team that cares for Ohioans. We provide a variety of quality, competitive benefits to eligible full-time and part-time employees*. For a list of all the State of Ohio Benefits, visit our Total Rewards website ! Our benefits package includes:

• Medical Coverage
• Free Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance premiums after completion of eligibility period
• Paid time off, including vacation, personal, sick leave and 11 paid holidays per year
• Childbirth, Adoption, and Foster Care leave
• Education and Development Opportunities (Employee Development Funds, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and more)
• Public Retirement Systems ( such as OPERS, STRS, SERS, and HPRS ) & Optional Deferred Compensation ( Ohio Deferred Compensation )

*Benefits eligibility is dependent on a number of factors. The Agency Contact listed above will be able to provide specific benefits information for this position.

Qualifications

Completion of undergraduate core program in social or behavioral science, health services public administration, public policy management or comparable field; 36 mos. exp. in researching, developing or implementing policies related to social services, health services, public policy or comparable field; 12 mos. trg. or 12 mos. exp. in research methodology, measurement & testing, analysis of variance & survey sampling; 6 mos. trg. or 6 mos. exp. in use of computer hardware & software used for spreadsheets, statistical analysis, graphics presentation & word processing.

-Or completion of graduate course coursework in social or behavioral science, health services public administration, public policy management or comparable field; 24 mos. exp. in researching, developing or implementing policies related to social services, health services, public policy or comparable field; 6 mos. trg. or 6 mos. exp. in use of computer hardware & software used for spreadsheets, statistical analysis, graphics presentation & word processing.

-Or 2 yrs. exp. as Human Services Developer 1, 69461, with experience commensurate with duties to be assigned per posting of job opportunity (e.g., if assignment is in area of policy development for aid to dependent children, education, training &/or experience must have been in area of aid to dependent children).

-Or equivalent of minimum class qualifications for employment noted above.

Job Skills: Human Services