Emergency Management Specialist (Regional IMAT Lead)

These positions are being announced under FEMA's Incident Management Assistant Team (IMAT) Program. These are 1-year temporary appointments in the Excepted Service. These positions are located on Type I Regional Teams and salary is based on the location.
Salary rate ranges are:
Atlanta: starting $63.73, maximum $94.48
Denton: starting $65.51, maximum $94.48
Seattle: starting $67.73, maximum $94.48

Qualifications:

All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

To qualify for this Emergency Management Specialist (Regional IMAT Lead) 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 and/or directing a large scale, geographically dispersed emergency response team;
• Coordinating the response to a disaster or emergency that required working with Federal, State, Tribal, Local or Territorial governments; and
• Developing and/or achieving shared goals and/or outcomes with diverse stakeholders (e.g. elected officials, media, the public).

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 (Regional IMAT Lead) responsible for coordinating the timely delivery of all Federal disaster assistance to support state and local governments and affected communities. You may also serve as a Federal Coordinating Officer responsible for the coordination of federal assistance following the President's declaration of a major disaster or emergency.

When deployed, the Emergency Management Specialist (Regional IMAT Lead) will need to remain poised in a tense environment, making sound management decisions while working to satisfy stakeholders' interests.

Typical assignments include:

• Coordinating the relationships between Federal, State, local and FEMA personnel at disaster operations sites, advising on the status of the Federal response in partnership with the Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) and other senior officials.
• Working in conjunction with the FCO to establish response, recovery and mitigation operations.
• Coordinating disaster management activities among FEMA, other Federal agencies, and state and local partners, including volunteer agencies, to ensure proper directions and involvement in key decisions related to disaster operations.
• Managing media, community and other external relations to communicate the availability of assistance to Congress, applicants and the general public.
• Working with partners to implement appropriate financial controls and to coordinate and monitor Federal program and administrative activities.
• Serving as a staff advisor in the planning, development, review and evaluations of all phases and functions of the disaster field operations programs conducted by the agency.
• Determining if the organizational structure is sufficient to support incident objectives and ensures that the organizational structure is ICS compliant.

When not deployed, the Emergency Management Specialist (Regional IMAT Lead) will ensure the operational capability of the IMAT by overseeing the management and training of IMAT personnel.

Typical assignments include:

• Participating in preparedness efforts, to include planning, exercising, and training.
• Coordinating non-Disaster work assignments.

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.

This announcement is for a position as an IMAT CORE (Incident Management Assist Team, Cadre of Response/Recovery Employee). IMAT CORE employees are full time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. IMATs are the first FEMA personnel deployed to an incident and manage the field-level federal response and early recovery with a primary focus on critical infrastructure stabilization, especially life-saving and life-sustaining efforts. Appointments to IMAT CORE positions may be renewed based upon workload needs and funding availability. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After 3 years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

Salary : $64 - $94