Duties

• Ensures the safety and well-being of children, youth and adults being transported to and from the program and on field trips. Knowledge of how to properly load and unload passengers. Skill in selecting the shortest and safest route.
• Ensures children and youth know how to safely evacuate the bus. Practices bus evacuation following prescribed procedures with children and youth on a monthly basis.
• Knowledge of height, weight, width, and length of passenger shuttle vans, and cargo vans in order to judge overhead and side clearances, turning radius and braking distance.
• Work requires walking, lifting and carrying items weighing 40 pounds or less, driving, bending and stooping. Drives outside in all kinds of weather in a controlled traffic environment throughout a military installation.
• Arranges for and ensures completion of routine maintenance of bus (e.g., oil change) transporting the bus to and from maintenance and/or repair facilities.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Satisfactory completion of pre-employment background checks in accordance with AR 215-3, 2-15.m., and a Child Care Tier 1 background investigation is required.
• Schedule includes irregular hours, evenings, and/or weekends.
• Duties involve working both indoors and outdoors under different types of weather conditions.
• This position requires mandatory drug testing.
• The physical ability to lift and carry up to 40 lbs., walk, bend, stoop, and stand on a routine basis is required.
• The appropriate driver?s license must be valid and current.
• Must be 18 years of age or older at time of appointment or placement into the position.
• Proof of education is required at the time of application.
• Good mental and physical health, freedom from communicable disease (verified through physical examination). Immunizations must be current including annual influenza vaccinations.
• Meet qualification/eligibility/background requirements for this position.
• Satisfactorily complete an employment verification (E-Verify) check.
• A completed and signed copy of our job application form (DA Form 3433) is required prior to entrance on duty.
• Direct Deposit and Social Security Card are required.
• Additional conditions of employment can be found in the Applicant Information Kit, link is in additional information below.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma.
• Ability to communicate in English at a level to assure the duties described can be accomplished in a safe and satisfactory manner.
• Experience in accomplishing the types of duties described in this job.
• Requires a commercial drivers license (CDL) with no restrictions to operate a passenger vehicle that carries 16 or more.

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Education

Proof of education is required at the time of application, if applicable.

Additional information

Area of Consideration

• The Area of Consideration for this vacancy announcement is the local commuting area of Fort Meade, MD. Military Spouse Preference (MSP) and Involuntarily Separated Military Preference (ISMP) Preference eligible candidates are included in the area of consideration.

This is an open continuous announcement to provide a ready pool of available applicants as needed. Applicants will be referred to selecting officials as vacancies occur.

Manual Application

• If you would like to apply manually, please contact the servicing NAF Human Resources (HRO) listed on this job announcement to request a copy of the manual application form. All completed manual application forms (along with resume and other supporting documentation) must be received no later than 3:00 pm CST on the closing date of this announcement in order to process your application in a timely manner.

Allowances, Incentives and PCS Costs:

• Please Note: This appointment is Regular Part-Time Limited Tenure NTE 2 - years.
• Allowances, differentials, or incentives will not be paid.
• Payment Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government's interest.

Other:

• Additional referrals may be made from this vacancy announcement for up to 90 days after the closing date.
• This is a Regular Part-Time position with a minimum work week of 20 hours and eligible for benefits

Please check out our Applicant Information Kit to view additional information you may find useful when applying for our jobs.
To view the kit, https://publicfileshare.chra.army.mil/Applicants/NAF%20Applicant%20Information%20Kit%20for%20Army%20NAF%20Childcare%20Positions.pdf