Emergency Management Specialist (Response)
What you'd do
In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist (Response) for Regional Offices, Region Ten, Response Division. The ideal candidate will have experience coordinating with stakeholders on disaster response and developing disaster response plans.
Major duties
What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will be performing emergency management work including managing, and coordinating federal emergency response operations, response planning, and integration of federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and nongovernmental disaster programs. Typical assignments include: Performing emergency management work including managing, and coordinating federal emergency response operations, response planning, and integration of federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and nongovernmental disaster programs. Conducting logistical studies and customer surveys to measure and evaluate supply system responsiveness and the movement of commodities and equipment to determine transportation service requirements. Developing response actions for exercises tailored to the State of Alaska's unique transportation and supply challenges and or participate in national and regional exercises, ensuring that the State of Alaska and federally recognized Tribes needs are fully integrated into FEMA's broader response activities. Improving critical response planning efforts, such as the Alaska Response Plan, distribution management plans, logistic site assessments, and disaster operations facilities. Assuming the role of primary or alternate State Liaison Officer, ensuring that Alaska's specific needs are represented at the federal level. What else do I need to know? At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.
What you need to qualify
The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position at the GS-12 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following: Working with stakeholders (i.e., federal, state, local, tribal, etc.) to build emergency management support capabilities; and, Developing guidance regarding emergency response subjects that comply with related directives, regulations, policies, laws, etc. and, Coordinating the development, execution, evaluation or improvement of planning processes to support large-scale exercises. To qualify for this position at the GS-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following: 1. Working with stakeholders (i.e., federal, state, local, tribal, etc.) to manage mission areas related to emergency management; and, 2. Creating guidance regarding emergency response subjects that comply with related directives, regulations, policies, laws, etc. and, 3. Leading or facilitating the development, execution, evaluation, and improvement of planning processes to support large-scale exercises. Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application: Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your experience. Are you qualifying based on your work experience? Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the grade level, occupational series and dates in which you held each grade level. Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE)? To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found "not qualified. 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills, and provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards.
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