Job opening: Emergency Management Specialist (Federal Coordinating Officer)
Salary: $65 - 92 per hour
Published at: Nov 25 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is being announced under FEMA's Incident Management Assistant Team (IMAT) Program. This is a 4-year temporary appointment in the Excepted service. This position is located on the Incident Management Assistance Team and has a starting salary range of $65.10 per hour to $87.88 per hour; however, the maximum salary possible in this position is $91.95 per hour. Salary listed includes locality pay.
Duties
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is seeking a highly qualified candidate to serve as an Incident Management Assistance (IMAT) Team Lead within the Federal Coordinating Officer cadre structure. The selected candidate will play a crucial role in coordinating federal assistance in the aftermath of a major disaster or emergency.
What will I do in this position if hired? As the IMAT Team Lead, you may serve as a Federal Coordinating Officer responsible for the coordination of federal assistance following the President's declaration of a major disaster or emergency. You may serve as the lead federal official for designated disasters and principal advisor to the FEMA Administrator and the Regional Administrator in the area in which a disaster occurs. You will assess what federal support is needed, establish field offices, and coordinate response and recovery activities in support of state, local, tribal, and territorial partners.
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Qualifications
All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
To qualify for thisEmergency Management Specialist (Federal Coordinating Officer) position at the IT-05 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the IT-04 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following:
Leading a large scale, geographically disbursed emergency response team;
Coordinating the response to a disaster or emergency that required working with State, Tribal, Local or Territorial governments;
Building and maintaining partnerships with diverse stakeholders to develop goals and outcomes, and effectively aligning resources to these goals, from any type of disaster or emergency; and,
Managing or overseeing budgets, spend plans, or grants.
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
No Educational Substitution: There is no educational substitution for this position, and you must meet the qualifications listed in the "requirements" section of this announcement.
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