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Emergency Management Specialist (Planning Section Chief Type II)
Federal Emergency Management Agency · Posted 52 days ago
About the Role
This position is being announced under FEMA's Incident Management Assistant Team (IMAT) Program. This is a 1-year temporary appointment in the Excepted service. This position is located on a National IMAT Team, and has a starting salary of 63.76 per hour; however, the maximum salary possible in this position is $94.48 per hour. Salary listed includes locality pay.
What You'll Do
- →What will I do in this position if hired?
- →In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist (Planning Section Chief Type II).
- →When deployed, the Emergency Management Specialist (Planning Section Chief Type II) 's typical assignments include: Coordinating federal support for response and recovery to natural and man-made incidents that result in considerable levels of damage, or disruption severely impacting the affected population and infrastructure requiring sustained federal recovery support.
- →Determining appropriate organizational structure based on supervisor's direction and ensures the structure and staffing are Incident Command System (ICS) complaint.
- →Coordinating with the State/Territory to establish a unified planning effort to include coordinating with the State/Territory Planning Section Chief.
- →Ensuring required/requested reports, briefings and geospatial information products are complete, accurate, and distributed properly to provide geospatial analytic tools to demonstrate a clearer vision of success at a disaster.
- →When not deployed, the Emergency Management Specialist (Planning Section Chief Type II) 's typical assignments include: Coordinating the implementation of a full-cycle preparedness program (training, exercise, and evaluation) aligned with the concepts and methodologies of the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program and Agency guidance to support the maintenance of team readiness.
- →Providing planning technical expertise, coordinating internal/external planning efforts, and participating in and at times leading large intra/inter-agency deliberate and crisis action planning efforts.
- →Represent the team in the development of FEMA incidernt mangement, situational awareness, and planning doctrine.
- →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.
Requirements
- ✓To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy.
- ✓To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for Moderate Risk as a condition of placement into this position.
- ✓This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information).
- ✓For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs please visit OPM Investigations.
- ✓The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.
- ✓If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
- ✓Please ensure you meet the qualification requirements described below and that you clearly describe how your experience meets these requirements within your resume.
- ✓Conditions of Employment You must be a U.S. citizen to be considered for this position.
- ✓You must successfully pass a background investigation.
- ✓Selective Service registration required.
- ✓You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government travel card Travel will be required.
- ✓You may be required to be on a 24 hour on-call work schedule during emergency response periods.
- ✓Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.
- ✓No Educational Substitution: There is no educational substitution for this position, and you must meet the qualifications listed in the "requirements" section of this announcement.
Benefits
- ★DHS offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life, and long-term care insurance; retirement plan; Thrift Savings Plan [similar to a 401(k)]; Flexible Spending Account; Employee Assistance Program; personal leave days; and paid federal holidays.
- ★Other benefits may include flexible work schedules; tuition reimbursement; transportation subsidies; uniform allowance; health and wellness programs; and fitness centers.
- ★DHS is committed to employee development and offers a variety of employee training and developmental opportunities.
- ★For more information, go to the DHS Careers website and select "Benefits." Disabled veteran leave will be available to any federal employee hired on or after November 5, 2016, who is a veteran with a service- connected disability rating of 30 percent or more.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 3a89415c-9a38-4893-85ec-1b7cff34c27b
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