This position is being announced under FEMA's Incident Management Assistant Team (IMAT) Program. This is a 2-year temporary appointment in the Excepted service. This position is located on a Type II Regional IMAT Team and has a starting salary range of $63.12 per hour to $85.20 per hour; however, the maximum salary possible in this position is $93.53 per hour. Salary listed includes locality pay.
All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. To qualify for thisEmergency Management Specialist (Planning Section Chief PSC2) position at the IT-04 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the IT-03 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: Preparing and managing aspects of the incident Action Plan (IAP) and its components; including developing incident objectives and identifying operational resources; Collaborating with State, Local, Federal, Tribal and nongovernmental partners to establish, organize and manage unified planning efforts; and Receiving, analyzing, and disseminating incident information that supports decision makers and enables appropriate and effective action during disasters. 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
What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist (Planning Section Chief PSC2) serving as an advisor to leadership of the Response Division. When deployed, the Emergency Management Specialist (Planning Section Chief PSC2) reports to the Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) or IMAT Team leader in the absence of the designated FCO and is responsible for the collection, evaluation dissemination, and use of information about the incident and status of resources as the Planning Section Chief. Typical assignments include: Coordinating federal support for response and recovery to natural and man-made incidents that result in considerable levels of damage, or disruption severely impacting the affected population and infrastructure requiring sustained federal recovery support. Determining appropriate organizational structure based on supervisor's direction and ensures the structure and staffing are Incident Command System (ICS) compliant. Coordinating with the State/Territory to establish a unified planning effort to include coordinating with the State/Territory Planning Section Chief. Ensuring required/requested reports, briefings and geospatial information products are complete, accurate, and distributed properly t provide a geospatial analytics tools to demonstrate a clearer vision of success at a disaster. When not deployed, the Emergency Management Specialist (Planning Section Chief PSC2) reports to the IMAT Team Leader and is responsible for implementing, directing, and coordinating the development of deliberate and crisis action strategic, operational, and tactical plans during steady-state operations and deployments. Typical assignments include: Coordinating the implementation of a full-cycle preparedness program (training, exercise, and evaluation) aligned with the concepts and methodologies of the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program and Agency guidance to support the maintenance of team readiness. Providing planning technical expertise, coordinating internal/external planning efforts, and participating in and at times leading large intra/inter-agency deliberate and crisis action planning efforts. Represent the team in the development of FEMA incident management, situational awareness, and planning doctorine. 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 are four years in duration and 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. This position will be hired into a temporary 2-year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.