This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Resilience, Risk Management Directorate. The Assistant Administrator for Risk Management will lead FEMA's efforts to ensure that every community, family and person in this country understands the risks they face from all hazards and has access to the tools they need to take action to reduce risk and accelerate resilience.

Duties

The Assistant Administrator for Risk Management assists and advises Resilience leadership on making the nation more resilient through risk management programs, policies and activities. Specific responsibilities include: Provides oversight and direction to several direct reports and participates fully in determining policies, plans, goals, organization of, and courses of action for these direct reports. Ensures that plans and practices effectively carry out the mission while assuring the effective and efficient use of resources, adherence to Resilience leadership's policies and objectives, and the goals of the President, the Congress, and the Department of Homeland Security. Serves as the principal advisor to Resilience leadership on the coordination, scope and coverage of risk management programs and how to best align and integrate strategies and policies with the Agency's and Department's goals and program planning. Ensures that appropriate long-range planning is coordinated and accomplished, and that resources are used effectively and efficiently. This includes resource expenditures, the timing of major events, prioritization of projects and plans. Incumbent also ensures that risk management programs are effectively executing on FEMA's Strategic Plan and priorities set by Resilience leadership. Recommends and implements ways to simplify and streamline risk management programs in order to improve customer experience and lessen the burden on stakeholders. Ensures risk management programs incorporate equity considerations and address equity-related barriers. Guides the integration of all risk management programs throughout Resilience and with the rest of the Agency, including programs that utilize risk to inform the delivery of programs. Serves as a leader within the federal interagency to coordinate risk management and works with philanthropic organizations, the private sector, and other external partners to accelerate resilience in disadvantaged and underserved communities. Leads FEMA's efforts to ensure that every community, family, and person in this country understands the disaster and climate related risks they face and has access to the tools they need to take action to reduce risk and accelerate resilience. Leads the integration and delivery of risk information for all hazards, including climate change, to help people identify current and future risk and choose appropriate and evidence backed risk reduction strategies. Provides risk information to individuals, families, and communities for use in preparing for events through targeted and practical hazard-specific guides, training and capacity building programs like Community Emergency Response Teams, and rigorously analyzing whether risk communication is resulting in people taking actions to prepare year-over-year. Leads direct training, funding, and technical assistance to a wide range of state, local, tribal, and territorial partners to help decision-makers interpret available risk information and analyze alternatives for risk reduction, and invest in better codes, building sciences, safer dam infrastructure, and more. Develops, integrates, and provides access to risk information for all hazards, including climate change, to help people identify current and future risk and choose appropriate and evidence backed risk reduction strategies. RMD helps the nation identify and understand risk, so that everyone has the tools and information they need to take actions to reduce disaster risk. Assesses national risk and capability and translates investments and activities into measurable changes in national preparedness. Activities include the National Risk and Capability Assessment, the Community and National Threat Hazard Identification and Risk Assessments (THIRA) and Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR), the National Preparedness Report (NPR), and others. Briefs Congressional Members and staff on policy and program initiatives. Reviews new directives, legislation, and regulations relating to assigned programs and makes recommendations to Resilience leadership concerning their impact on efficiency of operations and the most effective means of implementation. Represents DHS/FEMA in dealings with Federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, private sector and non-governmental organization officials who have vital interests in homeland security and emergency management. Carries out Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policies and communicates support of these policies to subordinates. Ensures diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in determining qualifications, selections, assignments, training, promotions, discipline, and awards to employees. Ensures that minorities and women are considered for training opportunities and are nominated/appointed to boards and committees. Coordinates efforts with EEO officials during the development and execution of policies affecting personnel.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You must be able to obtain/maintain a Public Trust - Moderate Risk security clearance.
• Selectee will be required to complete form OGE-278, Executive Personnel Financial Disclosure Form.
• You will serve a one-year probationary period unless you previously completed the probationary period in the SES.

Qualifications

As a basic requirement for entry into the SES, applicants must provide evidence of progressively responsible executive leadership and supervisory experience that is indicative of senior executive level management capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under Executive Core Qualifications and Technical Qualifications listed below. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the GS-14/15 grade level in the federal service or its equivalent in the private sector. As such, your resume should demonstrate that you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully fulfill responsibilities inherent in most SES positions such as: Directing the work of an organizational unit; Ensuring the success of one or more specific major programs or projects; Monitoring progress toward strategic organizational goals, evaluating organizational performance and taking action to improve performance; Supervising the work of employees; and Exercising important policymaking, policy determining, or other executive functions. The application process used to recruit for this position is RESUME-BASED Method. The applicant must address the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) and Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) within their resume. Resumes must not exceed five (5) pages. We recommend that your resume emphasize your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of the programs managed, and your program accomplishments, including the results of your actions. You will be evaluated to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications required of the position and on the extent your application demonstrates that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position. Please be sure to give concrete examples of your experience and demonstrate the complexity of the knowledge you possess. EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): YOUR RESUME MUST CLEARLY DOCUMENT AND DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs) EVIDENCE WITHIN YOUR RESUME NOT TO EXCEED FIVE PAGES: ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE. This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. Leadership Competencies: Creativity & Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, Vision. ECQ 2 - LEADING PEOPLE. This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. Leadership Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others, Team Building. ECQ 3 - RESULTS DRIVEN. This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. Leadership Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Technical Credibility. ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN. This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Leadership Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Technology Management. ECQ 5 - BUILDING COALITIONS. This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Leadership Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy, Influencing/Negotiating. Detailed information on each ECQ, the underlying and fundamental competencies, sample narratives and a tips sheet for writing effective ECQs are available in the "Guide To Senior Executive Service Qualifications" Senior Executive Service Executive Core Qualifications and Senior Executive Service Qualifications & Fundamental-Competencies. TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (TQ)s: IN ADDITON, YOU WILL BE EVALUATED ON ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQs): Your responses to the TQs should be embedded/addressed within your resume not to exceed five pages. TQ 1. Comprehensive knowledge of community resilience, climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, hazard mitigation, disaster risk management, and/or a related field and the ability to utilize that knowledge in a leadership role working with partners in other government agencies at all levels to reduce risk. TQ 2. Experience working in or working with local, state, territorial or tribal governments in a leadership role. TQ 3. Experience with using an equity lens in policymaking, strategy development, and/or program design. This includes the ability to evaluate and streamline business processes and programs in order to improve customer experience for everyone, including the most resource constrained communities. TQ 4. Experience utilizing risk information across one or more hazards to inform delivery to programs and/or the public that reduce risk. NOTE: Your demonstrated leadership ability and the evidence of the ECQs and TQs must be clearly shown in your resume. A separate narrative statement will not be accepted. A sample 5-page resume that incorporates ECQs and TQs can be viewed on this link (indexed at page 29 - 37) http://www.opm.gov/ses/references/GuidetoSESQuals_2012.pdf. YOU WILL BE ELIMINATED FROM FURTHER CONSIDERATION IF YOU FAIL TO MEET OR FULLY ADDRESS EACH MANDATORY EXECUTIVE CORE AND TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS AND IF YOUR RESUME EXCEEDS FIVE (5) PAGES. Veteran's Preference does not apply to the Senior Executive Service. Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize any employment offers made to current or former (within the last 5 years) political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Noncareer SES employees in the Executive Branch. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Noncareer SES employee, please indicate this in your resume. Serving in a Schedule A, Schedule C, or Noncareer SES appointment WILL NOT eliminate you from consideration.

Education

There is no educational requirement for this position.

Contacts

• Address Mission Support, Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer, Executive Resources 500 C Street SW Washington, DC 20024 US
• Name: Hollie Koutsalas
• Phone: 202-304-6867
• Email: [email protected]