In this position you will work as a member of the Region Eight Mitigation Division, National Floodplain Management and Insurance Branch. The ideal applicant will have experience implementing land use regulations or federal programs relating to regulations. Expertise in working together and fostering connections with a wide range of stakeholders, providing training at the local, tribal, and state levels, and/or creating written communication, outreach, and guiding materials is preferred.

Duties

What will I do in this position if hired? The individual may serve in a regulatory compliance or community resilience support position under the direct guidance of a Senior Specialist in Floodplain Management. Typical activities may be travel to visit State or local officials and reviewing the quality of implementation of the National Flood Insurance Program; traveling to communities with FEMA Risk map staff to communicate the impacts of new mapping products, reviewing local floodplain ordinances, delivering training on floodplain management, serving on headquarters working groups to improve the effectiveness of the program, and/or deploying to flood disaster events to advise FEMA Public Assistance sub applicants and participating communities on key requirements of local floodplain permitting related to recovery construction or reconstruction projects.

Requirements

Qualifications

Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The time-in-grade and qualification requirements must be met within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. You qualify for this position at the GS-11 level (starting salary $80,665) if you possess the following: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (GS-09) in the Federal Service. This experience may have been gained in the federal government, a state or local government, a non-profit organization, the private sector, or as a volunteer; however, your resume must clearly describe at least one year of specialized experience. Specialized experience for this position includes: GS-11 Understanding all sources and internal/external, including access to Subject Matter Expertise, for floodplain management for State and Local level. AND Coordinating and/or participating in floodplain management and insurance technical assistance delivery to State, Tribes and Local officials. AND Collaborating and maintaining relationships with a broad and diverse group of stakeholders across the Region. OR PH. D or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, or LL.M. if related, OR Combination of education and experience You qualify for this position at the GS-12 level (starting salary $96,684) if you possess the following: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (GS-11) in the Federal Service. This experience may have been gained in the federal government, a state or local government, a non-profit organization, the private sector, or as a volunteer; however, your resume must clearly describe at least one year of specialized experience. Specialized experience for this position includes: GS-12 Supporting the implementation of local floodplain management programs that include permitting and resolving violations according to adopted ordinances and building codes. AND Interpreting the laws, regulations, and policies to implement floodplain management programs. AND Communicating complex floodplain management programs requirements to local officials and the benefits of participating in the National Flood Insurance Program. 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 five pages. If more than five pages are submitted, only the first five pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications. 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 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. For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards

Education

Education substitution: This position permits applicants to qualify based on education (or a combination of education and experience), as outlined in the "requirements" section. If you are using education to qualify, you must submit a copy of your transcripts (unofficial are acceptable) with your online application. Once selected and prior to appointment, applicants must provide official college transcripts.

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. For example, specific courses accepted for college-level credit by an accredited U.S. college or university, or foreign education evaluated by an organization recognized for accreditation by the Department of Education as education equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. college or university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. Visit the Department of Education's Recognition of Foreign Qualifications for more information.

Contacts

• Address
• Name: DeeAnn Simer
• Phone: 303-922-6923
• Email: [email protected]