Emergency Management Specialist (Deliberate Future Operational Planner)

Summary

FEMA Integration Team (FIT) Emergency Management Specialist (Deliberate Future Operational Planner) in Springfield, IL, and Dimondale, MI locations will integrate with state partners to lead collaborative, deliberate, and future operational planning. Ideal candidates is an experienced emergency management professional, expertise in interagency coordination, strategic plan development, and technical guidance, dedicated to enhancing readiness and building long-term disaster response capabilities.

Duties

• What will I do in this position if hired? In this Emergency Management Specialist (Deliberate Future Operational Planner) position, you will work side-by-side with local and state emergency managers during normal days to build relationships, align plans, and map out available resources. Providing ongoing training and expert guidance on FEMA programs, grants, mitigation strategies, and policies. Typical assignments include: Operational Planning: Develop, review, and integrate deliberate, functional, strategic, and contingency emergency response plans. State & Partner Integration: Coordinate directly with state and local partners to establish a unified emergency management approach. Technical Advisory: Provide expert policy guidance and technical assistance to senior leadership and external partners to resolve complex readiness issues. Information Management: Lead the collection, analysis, and reporting of incident information to maintain regional situational awareness. Program Evaluation: Assess preparedness programs, identify capability gaps, and apply lessons learned to build long-term response 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. 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 has promotion potential to the IC-13. Promotions are dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, successful performance review displaying at least one year of experience at the lower grade, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and management approval.

Qualifications

All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. To qualify for this Emergency Management Specialist (Deliberate Future Operational Planner) 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: 1. Developing and drafting comprehensive emergency operations, deliberate, or strategic contingency plans; and 2. Collaborating with interagency partners, including federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial entities, establishing and aligning unified planning processes; and 3. Analyzing, researching, and resolving complex planning challenges and capability gaps identified during the disaster preparedness and response planning lifecycle. To qualify for this Emergency Management Specialist (Deliberate Future Operational Planner) position at the IC-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the IC-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: 1. Serving as a lead planner for the development of comprehensive emergency operations, deliberate, and strategic contingency plans; and 2. Providing technical leadership and coordinating planning efforts with federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, or other partners; and 3. Leading analysis of complex planning challenges, capability gaps, and operational risks to strengthen disaster preparedness and response capabilities. 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. 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 occupational series, grade level, 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 depende…

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.