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Which specific job titles are listed under the Department of Education’s Instructional and Research professional category?
Executive summary
You asked which specific job titles appear under the U.S. Department of Education’s “Instructional and Research” professional category. Available sources in the set do not include a Department of Education page or document that lists an “Instructional and Research” professional category or its specific job titles; the only federal ED pages in the results are general career landing pages that do not enumerate such a category [1]. Reporting in the results focuses on program transfers and job postings at state and local education agencies, not a federal Instructional & Research job-title list [2] [3] [4].
1. What the provided federal pages do — and what they omit
The U.S. Department of Education’s working-at-ED landing page in the results explains how to find jobs and links to USAJOBS but does not publish a breakdown of payroll classifications or an “Instructional and Research” job-title list in the supplied snippet; the page is described only as a resource for finding jobs or internships [1]. Therefore, the immediate answer—exact job titles under a named “Instructional and Research” category at the federal ED—is not present in the available material [1].
2. State and local listings are plentiful but not equivalent
Several search results show state and local education agencies publishing detailed job-title lists (for example, Pennsylvania’s Department of Education and Tennessee’s career pages), but those are agency- and state-specific and not the federal Department of Education’s Instructional and Research category [2] [4]. Pennsylvania’s site lists many education-related advisor and specialist titles such as “Adult Basic & Literacy Education Advisor” and “Educational Research Associate,” but that is the Pennsylvania Department of Education — not the U.S. Department of Education [4].
3. Confusion risk: similar labels across jurisdictions
“Instructional and Research” (or similar phrases) is a common classification label used in different jurisdictions and institutions (state education agencies, school districts, universities). The presence of titles like “Educational Research Associate” in Pennsylvania illustrates how state agencies create their own classifications that may resemble federal labels but are not the same as a federal payroll category [4]. The available results do not confirm whether the federal ED uses the identical phrase as an official category.
4. Recent reporting focuses on organizational change, not job listings
Recent news items in the results document large-scale program and staff reassignments away from the Department of Education to other federal agencies under the current administration, but these articles do not provide a roster of Instructional and Research job titles at ED [5] [6] [7]. Those stories emphasize program movement and interagency agreements rather than internal job-classification lists [5] [6] [7].
5. How you can get the specific federal list (steps based on available pages)
Because the ED’s “Working at ED” page directs users to hiring resources [1], the most reliable next steps—consistent with the type of pages surfaced here—are: 1) check the U.S. Department of Education’s careers or human resources pages directly for classification or occupational series documents; 2) search USAJOBS for ED listings filtered by occupational series or keyword “Instructional” or “Research”; and 3) request classification guidance from ED’s HR contact. Note: these procedural suggestions reflect what the ED landing page points users toward but are not direct citations of an Instructional & Research list in the provided sources [1].
6. Limitations and what the sources do not say
Available sources do not mention any specific list of job titles under a federal “Instructional and Research” professional category for the U.S. Department of Education; they also do not show an ED organizational chart or payroll-classification table containing those words [1]. If you seek a definitive federal roster, it is not found in the materials provided here.
7. Competing contexts and why answers can vary
Different entities (federal ED, state departments, school districts, universities) use overlapping language for instructional and research roles, which leads to ambiguity when sources mix state and federal postings. For example, the Pennsylvania site lists many advisor and research-related titles [4], while Tennessee and local NYC pages list separate openings that reflect their own classifications [2] [8]. Those state and local lists should not be treated as the federal ED’s official category without direct federal documentation.
If you want, I can: (A) search specifically for the U.S. Department of Education’s occupational classification or payroll schedule if you provide more links, or (B) look up USAJOBS ED listings and extract titles that match “Instructional” or “Research.” The current result set does not contain the specific federal list you asked for [1] [4] [2].