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Educational Aide (Special Education)

Department of Defense Education Activity 📍 Multiple Locations Posted Apr 13, 2026

⚠ Stale SOFA $17.82 – $22.29/hr

This role monitors students throughout the school day and provides essential assistance with personal hygiene, feeding, and educational support in both special and general education classrooms.

Responsibilities

Monitoring students during various phases of the school day.
Providing assistance in toileting, feeding, eating, and personal hygiene.
Supporting educational efforts in the Special Education classroom and general education classroom as needed.
Performing administrative tasks such as attendance records, filing, scheduling, and reviewing assignments.
Working with students in accordance with plans developed by the specialist and educator.
Distributing/collecting testing materials as needed by students.
Preparing instructional materials related to classroom lessons.
Participating in Parent Teacher conferences.

Requirements

Eligibility Requirements

Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You must identify which category or categories you meet and provide documents to prove your eligibility.

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

Qualifications

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.

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 (Special Education), such as preparing letters, schedules, and other documents through the use of a personal computer or assisting with the preparation of instructional materials.
Education: Two years of education above the high school level obtained in an accredited business, secretarial, or technical school, junior college, college, or university.
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.

Competency Areas:

Communications and Media
Special Education Support Standards
Teaching Others

Benefits

For detailed information on government benefits, please visit: http://www.usajobs.gov/help/working-in-government/benefits/

SOFA statusEducation supportSpecial educationGovernment benefits

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Select the one statement below that best describes the education and/or experience that you possess that demonstrates your ability to perform the work of an Educational Aide at the GS-04 grade level or equivalent pay band in the Federal service.

Additional Info

Locations

Camp Foster, Japan
Kadena Air Base Okinawa, Japan
Kue, Japan
Makiminato Okinawa, Japan
Okinawa Island, Japan

Compensation and Schedule

Pay: $17.82 to $22.29 per hour.
Schedule: School year part-time seasonal work schedules include periods in a non-pay/non-duty status during the holidays and spring and summer recess periods, meaning no pay is received during these periods. Also, you will not receive pay for days where the Supervisor determines you are not required to report.
Status: This position is covered by SOFA.

Application Notes

Applicants must be U.S. citizens who are not considered Ordinarily Resident under the applicable Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA).
All candidates must be U.S. Citizens; however, a non-U.S. Citizen may be considered after meeting all of the following requirements: Valid active green card, AND Social Security Number (SSN), AND must have resided in the United States for a period of at least three years.
Locality pay does not apply in the overseas area.
This position is not covered by a bargaining unit.