By applying for this position with the Small Business Administration (SBA) Disaster Policy, Planning, and Partnerships Division, US Small Business Administration, you can enjoy challenging but satisfying work and join a highly motivated and diverse team that helps families and businesses rebuild their lives after a disaster.

Duties

This position is responsible for ensuring effective planning, operation, evaluation, and communication with Office of Disaster Recovery & Resilience, SBA Field Offices as well as SBA's internal and external partners. As a Public Engagement Coordinator at the GS-0301-14, some of your typical work assignments may include: Ensuring effective planning, operation, evaluation, and communication with internal and external partners. Coordinating and maintaining cooperative relationships with organizations to ensure smooth partnerships. Working with various federal, state, local agencies, and partner organizations to improve the delivery of disaster assistance programs. Maintaining awareness of policies, procedures, regulations, and legislative actions relevant to the agency's disaster assistance program. Establishing products for internal and external use when necessary, focusing on disaster survivor-centric information, and impact on the delivery of disaster assistance. IMPORTANT NOTES: This is a temporary position, which is an Excepted service status position with a full-time work schedule. You will be given an initial appointment for up to 1 year, but not more than 7 years. If all other conditions of employment are met, this appointment may be extended, up to a total of seven (7) years in increments determined by SBA. If required to travel to a disaster site, you may encounter hazardous working and/or living conditions, for example, no water or electricity and/or minimal lodging facilities. By applying for this position with SBA's US Small Business Administration , you can enjoy challenging but satisfying work and join a highly motivated and diverse team that helps families and businesses rebuild their lives after a disaster. Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur within 180 days from the closing date. This is not a bargaining unit position.

Requirements

• You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government travel credit card. (Remove if not applicable).
• Favorable background investigation and credit check are required.
• Mandatory Overtime: In order to respond quickly and efficiently to disaster survivors, substantial compensated overtime hours may be required while on assignment (up to seven days a week and ten to fourteen hours a day).
• This position is not included in a bargaining unit.
• Credit score below 500 may negatively impact consideration in the hiring process.
• A valid driver's license may be required.
• U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications

Generally, time in Non-Pay status is not creditable towards the specialized experience requirement listed below. You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement. You may qualify based on experience, education or a combination of both. Experience: To receive credit, you must indicate the month and year as well as the average hours worked per week for each employer or that experience will not be credited for meeting the specialized experience requirement. GS-14: To qualify you must have at least 1 full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the GS-13 level in the Federal service that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skill, and ability to perform successfully in this position. This experience may have been gained in a Non-Federal service position. In addition, this Specialized Experience must demonstrate ALL the following: Communicating with various partners across public, private, philanthropic partners, and/or stakeholders in a government entity or non-profit agency; Experience engaging and communicating with civic leaders from diverse backgrounds; Using a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods to identify and engage with a diverse set of stakeholders across various communities; AND Assisting management with the implementation of an agency's goals and/or transitioning steady-state community and civic engagement during a time(s) of crisis.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on OPM's Qualifications website: Miscellaneous Administration and Program Series 0301 (opm.gov)

Contacts

• Address Disaster Policy, Planning, and Partnerships Division 409 3rd Street SW, Suite 6050 Washington, DC 20416 US
• Name: Ebube Utomi
• Email: [email protected]