Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist

This position is located in the Office of Response and Recovery, Field Operations Directorate, Workforce Management Division, serving as Chief, Workforce Generation Branch (WGB). The ideal candidate for this position will be leading FEMA's incident workforce (IW) enterprise-uniting partners, shaping force structure and IW titling, and guiding cadres and regions so the right people with the right skills are ready to deploy before, during, and after disasters.

Qualifications:

Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

To qualify for this position at the GS-15 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-14 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. Leading multidisciplinary teams responsible for emergency management or incident workforce programs, including setting work priorities and assigning tasks to staff; and
2. Managing organization-wide emergency management or incident workforce programs that support incident staffing, readiness, or deployment-with a focus on change management; and
3. Developing and implementing policies, procedures, or guidance that govern workforce planning, staffing, or deployment across multiple offices or locations; and
4. Using workforce or operational data to identify staffing gaps, develop forecasts, and prepare recommendations for senior leadership on workforce needs; and
5. Providing advice and consultation to senior leaders at Headquarters, Regions, and the field on incident workforce issues (for example, surge staffing, deployment, or demobilization), and coordinating with internal or external partners to address those needs.

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 two pages. The USAJOBS database will not allow an applicant to submit an application that includes a resume over two pages.
• 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 be responsible for providing enterprise leadership for FEMA's incident workforce generation mission. Further, position directs a headquarters branch that plans, manages, and supports FEMA's incident workforce so the agency has the right mix of trained, ready, and deployable personnel across employee types and components. Typical assignments include:

• Directing daily operations of the Workforce Generation Branch, supervising staff, setting priorities, reviewing work products, and ensuring alignment with Field Operations Directorate and Workforce Management Division objectives.
• Overseeing the use and improvement of workforce planning models and tools, reviewing data on incident staffing and readiness, and adjusting force structure recommendations based on operational demand and strategic guidance.
• Collaborating with Cadre Management Teams and Regional Field Operations Teams to identify workforce gaps, troubleshoot complex staffing issues, and provide decision support for deployment, surge, and demobilization planning.
• Leading the development of incident workforce titling, training, policy, tools, and communication products that support implementation of the Every Employee is an Emergency Manager (EEEM) program across FEMA.
• Preparing and delivering briefings, reports, and recommendations on incident workforce status, risks, and initiatives to senior leaders and other stakeholders, and representing WGB in internal and interagency meetings and workgroups.

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 : $169,279