This Senior Executive Service position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Office of Response and Recovery. The position serves as the Assistant Administrator for the Response Directorate, responsible for the executive leadership and managerial direction for the full scope of activities in overseeing all operations and staff functions of the Directorate.

Duties

The incumbent is responsible for providing executive leadership for, and overseeing, all operations and functions - operational, planning, readiness, programmatic, policy, and administrative of the Response Directorate in support of the Agency's mission. This is inclusive of the capabilities, processes, and leadership to fulfill FEMA's lifesaving and life-sustaining missions during a disaster including the National Urban Search and Rescue System, Mobile Emergency Response Support (MERS), and multiple operations centers. It is also inclusive of managing the relationships across the agency and the interagency to ensure unity of effort across the whole of government including the National Response Coordination Center, Deliberate and Crisis Planning, and special consequence management teams. Finally, it is inclusive of specialized capabilities to inform operators and leaders at the Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial level of critical information to shape approach and decision-making during a disaster including the Office of Emerging Threats, Disaster Emergency Communications, and the Response Geospatial office. In addition to those operational requirements, the duties of the incumbent are inclusive of strategic planning, policy development, budget preparation and execution, procurement and contracting processes, personnel management, and reports and briefings to Congress as required. Recommendations made by the incumbent include resources to be expended, timing of major events, priority of projects and plans, and projects that should be initiated, suspended, or postponed. The incumbent is responsible for formulating strategic program plans which assess policy/program feasibility and include realistic short- and long-term goals and objectives to address current and future threats. Additional duties include, but not limited to: Develops, maintains, and executes organizational constructs to bring the federal government together to support a unified mission, focused on gaining, maintaining, and sharing situational awareness; adjudicating federal requirements for lifesaving and life-sustaining resources; and providing timely and actional information to disaster survivors. Provides guidance and facilitates planning and exercise efforts to enhance national and regional readiness to respond to disasters, including catastrophic disasters. Delivers robust exercise programs that leverage realistic scenarios and evaluation criteria across all hazards to test, validate, and enable effective execution of FEMA's response mission. Directs and oversees the development and implementation of interagency systems to conduct comprehensive situation assessments before, during, and in the wake of disasters and potential disasters. Represents the Associate Administrator/Deputy Associate Administrator at meetings and negotiations with key officials within and outside FEMA on major considerations within assigned areas, exercising authority to speak for him/her and to commit to specific actions within the bounds of Agency policies and regulations. Represents the FEMA Administrator/Deputy Administrator at meetings, exercises, and negotiations with key officials, political and career, outside FEMA on major considerations within the planning, readiness, and operations of FEMA Response, to include exercising authority to speak for the agency and to commit to specific actions within the bounds of Agency policies and regulations. Provides leadership and managerial oversight for professional and support staff assigned to the Directorate as well as provides oversight and direction of technical assistance contractors. Determines resource needs, including proper allocation. Delegates authority to subordinate managers and holds them responsible for performance within their areas. Provides oversight for the management of data tracking systems for monitoring the status and progress of emergency response activities and oversees multi-million-dollar response programs and technical assistance contracts. Ensures the efficient and cost-effective development and utilization of management information systems and other technological resources that meet the organization's needs. Ensures that adequate internal controls are in place to prevent waste, fraud, mismanagement, and abuse. Carries out EEO policies and communicates support of these policies to subordinates. Assures equality in determining qualifications, selections, assignments, training, promotions, discipline, and awards to employees. Cooperates with and participates in the development of an EEO affirmation action plan and efforts regarding staffing, motivation, and training to develop all employees.

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 may be required to undergo periodic drug testing.
• You must be able to obtain/maintain a Top-Secret w/SCI 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.
• You must submit to a pre-employment drug test.

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 the 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.The following categories of applicants may omit the mandatory Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs), but the Technical Qualifications must be addressed within your Resume: Applicants who are currently serving under a SES career appointment (must provide a copy of Standard Form 50--Notification of Personnel Action that documents career appointment to the SES). Applicants who are eligible for reinstatement to the SES (must provide a copy of Standard Form 50--Notification of Personnel Action that documents career appointment to the SES). Applicants who are graduates of OPM-approved SES Candidate Development Programs (must provide proof of OPM Qualifications Review Board certification). 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. Experience in leading entire operations or significant portions of large, national-level Response operations. These can be at the local, state, or Federal level for incidents that required coordination of capabilities from Federal organizations to achieve specific operational outcomes. TQ 2. Comprehensive knowledge of the Federal programs and policies that affect the Nation's emergency management programs to include broad knowledge of the disaster response authorities of FEMA and other Federal Departments and agencies, as well as their emergency operations procedures and those of SLTT governments. This includes knowledge of the operations, legislative, program, and budget development and implementation practices of the Congressional and Executive Branches that support those programs and policies. TQ 3. Ability to grasp the significance of new threats, trends, and developments; evaluate those threats, trends, and developments; and adjust processes, procedures, operations, and resources - short and long-term - to ready for these threats, trends, and developments. TQ 4. Ability to manage a diverse and complex organization and to ensure human resource strategies that meet the organization's goals for achieving maximum potential of all employees in a fair and equitable manner. Including the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, and deal effectively on an interpersonal basis with staff and partners, both within and outside the government and build coalitions with appropriate parties. 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 recognized education to qualifying for this position; applicant's resumes and supporting documentation will be acceptable.

Contacts

• Address
• Name: DeMarques Coleman
• Phone: 202-568-2869
• Email: [email protected]