Emergency Management Specialist (Preparedness)
What you'd do
The ideal candidate has experience with the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment/Stakeholder Preparedness Review, Emergency Operations Plans, the National Incident Management System, and emergency management policy and planning; and experience with assessing readiness, analyzing plans and preparedness data and producing reports, and working with a wide range of stakeholders.
Major duties
What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will manage, coordinate, and execute Federal emergency all-hazards preparedness activities. Typical assignments include: Managing, coordinating, and executing all-hazards preparedness planning and analysis activities in coordination with multiple sectors and levels of government. Identifying and assessing risks, estimating capability requirements needed to address those risks, informing and supporting efforts to build and sustain required capabilities, and developing and implementing preparedness plans. Providing expert technical assistance, program delivery support, and strategic guidance to stakeholders, senior leaders, and professional staff on complex preparedness programs requiring whole community coordination to build, sustain, and deliver capabilities and improve preparedness and operational readiness. Performing substantive, mission-oriented emergency management work and serving as a program manager and advisor to senior management and professional staff on preparedness program execution, policy implementation, capability assessment, and emergency and disaster readiness issues. Providing technical assistance on the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment, Stakeholder Preparedness Review, and Emergency Operations Plans at state, territory, tribal, and local levels, and supports NIMS-based preparedness assessments of mission-ready teams, capabilities, and infrastructure, and produces reports, briefings, and recommendations. Analyzing preparedness data, identifying capability gaps, assessing progress toward preparedness goals, and recommending strategies to improve regional and stakeholder readiness. 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
Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement. 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: Applying emergency management principles, directives, policies, regulations, procedures, or methods to preparedness planning, risk assessment, capability assessment, or program analysis activities; and Conducting or supporting the threat and hazard identification, risk assessment, or capability assessment (such as the Thread and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment or Stakeholder Preparedness Review) to identify risks, assess capabilities, determine gaps, and/or support preparedness reporting; and Collaborating with stakeholders to support preparedness planning, data collection, capability assessment, or improvement planning efforts; and Analyzing preparedness data, assessment results, capability gaps, corrective actions, or improvement plans to evaluate program effectiveness and recommend improvements. 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. Please limit your resume to two pages. The USAJOBS database will not allow an applicant to submit an application that includes a resume over two pages. 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/DAE employee? 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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