Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Mitigation)

Joining FEMA's Mitigation Directorate offers an opportunity to help communities become more resilient to hazards. The ideal candidate has extensive knowledge of mitigation programs, proven ability to oversee policy development and compliance, strong leadership and supervisory skills, exceptional communication, analytical expertise, and adaptability to work in challenging environments and disaster sites.

What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist in the Program Operations and Program Effectiveness areas within the Hazard Mitigation Assistance Division. You will be joining a team that invests in helping American communities become more resilient and mitigate against future disasters. Typical assignments include: Providing supervisory oversight to a staff of specialists performing emergency management and mitigation work, ensuring effective delivery of federal mitigation programs and compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and policies. Managing administrative and technical functions of the unit, including planning and assigning work, setting priorities and goals, evaluating performance, resolving work problems, and supporting staff development and training. Overseeing the development, implementation, and evaluation of mitigation guidance, standards, and initiatives, including risk analysis, risk reduction, and risk insurance programs, to support community resilience and disaster risk reduction. Serving as a senior advisor and liaison, coordinating with high-level internal and external stakeholders-including federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, nongovernmental, and private sector partners-on mitigation policy, program delivery, and interagency initiatives. 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.

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 (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information). For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs, please visit OPM Investigations. Conditions of Employment: 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. Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.