Emergency Management Specialist (Preparedness)

Summary

This position is located at the Region 2, National Preparedness Division, Preparedness Analysis Branch in New York, NY. The ideal candidate for this position will have strong analytical skills managing, coordinating, and implementing Federal emergency planning and preparedness activities including but limited to identifying and assessing risk, estimating the level of capabilities, building or sustaining the required levels, validating and monitoring progress to preparedness improvement.

Duties

• What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as a senior specialist participating in the execution of preparedness program activities within a region of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Provides advice and assistance to FEMA staff and stakeholders concerning a variety of issues pertaining to preparedness activities which involve complex and far-reaching threats and hazards that require Federal agencies, States and local governments to integrate preparedness efforts in order to build, sustain, and deliver the core capabilities and achieve the desired level of readiness. Typical assignments include: Administers key components of the National Preparedness System which provides a consistent and reliable approach that supports decision making, resource allocation, and measure progress toward these outcomes in preparation for a crisis event. Provides officials with relevant information required to plan and implement Federal preparedness activities as related to an extensive range of national emergencies. Communicates and coordinates with other Federal, State, local, tribal, territorial, nongovernmental organizations, and private sector to ensure an effective and comprehensive plan for a coordinated preparedness to major event occurrences. 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.

Qualifications

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-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: Analyzing emergency management plans, preparedness policies, and standard operating procedures across diverse operational environments. Developing assessment using data systems to support executive decision-making, which helps prioritize preparedness and response actions. Communicating emergency protocols and operational workflows, ensuring mission readiness and rapid response cross-jurisdictions during critical events. 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/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. Are you qualifying under Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA)? To be el…

Education

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.