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Emergency Management Specialist (Risk Analyst)
Federal Emergency Management Agency · Posted 4 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in Washington, DC. The ideal candidate for this position will have experience with geospatial data and data architecture experience to assess, connect, and operationalize National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) datasets and represent FEMA in modernization working groups.
What You'll Do
- →What will I do in this position if hired?
- →In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist (Risk Analyst).
- →Typical assignments include: Serve as a technical expert in NFIP geospatial data management, assessing geospatial datasets holistically to evaluate data quality, structure, relationships, gaps, dependencies, and modernization opportunities.
- →Organize and implement geospatial database management processes, including data maintenance, data cleanup, standards development, guidance issuance, and data quality improvement across NFIP insurance and mapping datasets.
- →Apply a geospatial data architecture perspective to connect, govern, and operationalize NFIP geospatial datasets across systems, programs, workflows, and modernization initiatives.
- →Lead cross-functional working groups, user groups, and project teams involving program, mapping, insurance, data, and IT stakeholders to achieve agreed-upon outcomes within cost, schedule, and scope.
- →Coordinate and communicate project direction, status, risks, issues, and recommendations with supervisors, team leadership, technical teams, and government stakeholders, including representing FEMA in modernization-related working groups.
- →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.
- ✓Key Requirements: You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
- ✓You must successfully pass a background investigation.
- ✓Selective Service registration required.
- ✓Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements.
- ✓You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
- ✓You must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time.
- ✓Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.
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: cbdcbeb3-0c1a-4777-9091-09f84a8c3260
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