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Emergency Management Specialist (Risk Analyst)

Resilience, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration
Washington, DC Other
POSTED ON 6/3/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/2/2026
As a Risk Analyst within FEMA's Resilience, Engineering and Modeling Division, the ideal candidate will have expertise on a wide range of highly complex initiatives focused on natural hazard risk assessment, risk analysis, loss modeling, geospatial sciences, and technology integration and utilization, while managing complex projects with numerous stakeholders and varied strategic objectives.

Qualifications:

The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

To qualify for this position at the GS-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 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:
  1. Assessing hazard risks using geospatial analysis/loss modeling methodologies/spatial statistics; AND,
  2. Analyzing/troubleshooting/making recommendations on emerging/critical hazard risks; AND,
  3. Researching/investigating/analyzing risk assessment solutions.

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.
  • 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.

Responsibilities:

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist (Risk Analyst). Typical assignments include:

  • Serving as a project leader and point of coordination for FEMA programs pertaining to risk assessment.
  • Serving as a risk assessment program advisor for FEMA Headquarters and FEMA Regions, along with other Federal Agencies, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial, Non-Governmental Organizations, academia, and the private sector.
  • Providing analytical and advisory services in the following program areas: risk analysis, geospatial modeling, data management, technological innovation, tools development (Hazus), interagency coordination, and development of loss modeling methodological guidance.
  • Managing in the coordination of a variety of complex and typically long-term contract management activities that are in support of risk assessment strategic objectives, while ensuring contract requirements are adequately outlined in the scope of work, schedule, and performance evaluations.
  • Writing and/or editing technical materials including reports of research findings, technical manuals and specifications, and explaining technical aspects of agency risk assessment programs to those affected.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

Salary : $121,785

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