Emergency Management Specialist (Response)

Emergency Management Specialist (Response)

The ideal candidate is a versatile, innovative, and self-motivated professional who thrives in a team-based environment. They excel in customer service and employee relations, collaborating seamlessly to achieve common goals. The candidate will coordinate training and briefings, acting as a key liaison with headquarters partners and program components. Their adaptability and commitment to teamwork make them the go-to person for ensuring smooth operations and a collaborative work environment.

In this Emergency Management Specialist (Response) position, you will serve as a part of the Region Eight Regional Field Operations Team. This person will be adept at problem-solving, demonstrating initiative and a proactive approach to overcoming challenges and achieving common goals. Additionally, they are proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite, particularly in programs such as Excel and Power BI, to support and enhance the team's capacity for data analysis and informed decision-making. Typical assignments include :

• Supporting the administration of FQS policy and integration to enable the optimization, utility, comprehension, and effectiveness of FQS.
• Providing excellent customer service to all users of FQS (e.g., Region 8 personnel and Incident Management (IM) / Incident Support (IS) Cadres), to include technical assistance in matters related to qualifications of the Region 8 disaster workforce.
• Conducting self-guided work, support and lead projects, facilitate meetings, and engage with partners throughout the agency.
• Analyzing management objectives and organizational goals to develop guidance, projects, and initiatives required to support annual project planning and implementation.
• Representing regional perspectives at the HQ-level for incident workforce management initiatives, leading meetings and providing briefings.
• Learning, maintaining, and developing SME level proficiency in using the Agency's Deployment Tracking System (DTS) to process deployments, create reports, and update employee FQS related information.
• Supporting the Regional Response Coordination Center (RRCC) when activated for disasters, events, and exercises with knowledge on how the RRCC operates.
• Supporting the implementation of Every Employee is an Emergency Manager (EEEM) initiative launched this year, ensuring alignment with existing FQS procedures and promoting staff awareness, education, and adherence to the initiative.

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.

This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response / Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA. This position will be hired into a temporary 2-year excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

Conditions of Employment 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 Public Trust - 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.

You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position. You must successfully pass a background investigation. Selective Service registration required. 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.

Qualifications All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. To qualify for this Emergency Management Specialist (Response) position at the IC-12 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the IC-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 : Analyzing data to manage, track, and recommend disaster response program improvements; and, Providing briefings and explaining technical aspects of agency programs to internal and external stakeholders; and, Collaborating with a variety of stakeholders in the delivery of emergency management or disaster response programs.

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.