Supervisory Logistics Management Specialist

The ideal candidate for this position will possess extensive experience in planning, coordinating, and evaluating complex logistics operations in support of disaster response and recovery. They demonstrate strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and the ability to effectively manage teams, budgets, and partnerships across federal, state, local, and private sector entities to ensure timely and efficient delivery of critical resources.

What will I do in this position if hired? This position is located in Region 9, Response Division. In this position, you will serve as a first level supervisor over Logistics Management Specialists who performs work that involves planning, coordinating, or evaluating the logistical actions required to support a specified mission or other designated program. Typical assignments include: Developing and delivering logistics trainings and support professional development. Designing and providing training on disaster-related logistics topics, maintains awareness of evolving technologies and methods. Pursuing improvements in processes and tools to enhance workforce capability and operational effectiveness. Evaluating and improving logistics policies, systems, and operations. Directing disaster logistics support for field operations and incident teams. 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.

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 - High 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 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.