Total 20,988 job vacancies in Cardiff and the Vale, CF10 5FE

Typical work assignments include, but are not limited to:

• Provide recommendations and guidance to management on areas such as risk management and internal control.
• Develop and implement of accounting and standard operating procedures and business processes.
• Recommend changes to systems requirements resulting from findings of internal and financial audits of programs and operations.
• Direct, implement, and coordinate a variety of fiscal policy and audit related activities impacting activities and operations.
• Provides analytical support for problem definitions, troubleshooting and/or resolution, planning methodologies, policies, and procedures.
• Plans and conducts special studies, either as a member of a task force or with team members.
• Recommend actions to achieve organizational financial objectives, and recommends future program objectives and improvements.
• Review fiscal operating policies and procedures, and applicable laws, regulations, and program guidelines.
• Monitor and assess training activities and programs within OCFO.
• Assists in developing and evaluating functional systems specifications for financial control.
• Provide analysis of workload transactions, work processes, financial management, and on the interpretation of audit and accounting standards and regulations.
• Responsible for evaluating the content of new or modified regulations, policies, or laws.

Typical work assignments include, but are not limited to:

• Provide recommendations and guidance to management on areas such as risk management and internal control.
• Develop and implement of accounting and standard operating procedures and business processes.
• Recommend changes to systems requirements resulting from findings of internal and financial audits of programs and operations.
• Direct, implement, and coordinate a variety of fiscal policy and audit related activities impacting activities and operations.
• Provides analytical support for problem definitions, troubleshooting and/or resolution, planning methodologies, policies, and procedures.
• Plans and conducts special studies, either as a member of a task force or with team members.
• Recommend actions to achieve organizational financial objectives, and recommends future program objectives and improvements.
• Review fiscal operating policies and procedures, and applicable laws, regulations, and program guidelines.
• Monitor and assess training activities and programs within OCFO.
• Assists in developing and evaluating functional systems specifications for financial control.
• Provide analysis of workload transactions, work processes, financial management, and on the interpretation of audit and accounting standards and regulations.
• Responsible for evaluating the content of new or modified regulations, policies, or laws.

As a Supervisory Career Ready Program Specialist you will:

• Provide a central focus for an enterprise approach to employee development by integrating programs and processes into long-range business plans and talent management requirements.

• Develop and maintain a strategic plan for CRP that provides a central focus for and enterprise approach to employee development by integrating programs and processes into long-range business plans and talent management requirements
• Participates as a technical authority on and leads a team in employee development initiatives. Provides administrative and technical supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of the Career Ready Program Office.

• Collaborate and partner with internal and external stakeholders and serve as a technical expert.

• Serves as the Service Center technical authority on the Farm Loan Programs and the primary point-of-contact on all farm loan issues addressed in the counties serviced.
• Supervises and directs the work of a subordinate staff responsible for making, servicing, and liquidating loans under FSA farm loan authorities.
• Has delegated loan approval authority and performs the full range of loan specialist duties.
• Attends public meetings with various groups and associations, and performs public relations and outreach efforts in the geographic areas serviced.
• Has knowledge of the technical and administrative concepts, principles, and practices of farm loan and financial management.
• Has knowledge of farm operations, land use and value, and production and marketing of various crops and livestock.

• This position(s) is located in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Devices and Radiological Heath (CDRH), in Silver Spring, Maryland.
• Review scientific data submitted in support of a variety of medical device submissions to determine the safety and effectiveness.
• Review data in the field of general engineering, summarizes it and makes recommendation concerning the data, also provides leadership and guidance in general engineering to other supporting level scientists.
• Provide scientific information and consultation to industry, academic, and private laboratory scientists conducting research on the safety and effectiveness of materials used in the manufacture of medical device products or other scientific systems.

This position is located in a Department of Veterans Affairs, Regional office (VARO) Decision Review Operations Center. The Rating Quality Review Specialist is an integral part of the Decision Review Operations Center's quality assurance program and is a key technical adviser to the Decision Review Officers (DROs) and Rating Veterans Service Representatives (RVSRs), in the Decision Review Operations Center. The purpose of this position is to measure individual performance quality and identify training needs through the review and assessment of completed claims involving appeals and rating decisions.

• Performs individual quality reviews to determine the rating quality level of individual DROs and RVSRs for purposes of individual performance standards in accordance with an established monthly schedule. - Conducts focused "in-process reviews" for cases to determine the accuracy of claims action taken. (Such reviews are for station-level feedback and improvement only, not used for individual performance standard purposes.)
• Responsible for sharing rating quality trend information with management on an ongoing basis and with the DROs and RVSRs during training sessions.
• Reviews products or activities for quality of performance and enters the results into the on-line STAR checklists.
• Evaluates and identifies deficiencies of all elements of a claim from evidence development, income, and dependency issues, to award processing and authorization. Provides an explanation of errors and includes comments where attention is warranted.
• Prepares STAR data reports and provides to personnel in the regional office who are authorized to request and receive such reports.
• Develops various quality assurance processes with emphasis on work procedures and techniques that address unique work conditions and practices. - Ensures all program requirements imposed by Compensation Service, the Office of Administrative Review and/or the Pension and Fiduciary Service and the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims are met or implemented.
• Prepares documentation to support unfavorable finding in order to provide justification for error decisions and indicate required actions.
• Conducts statistical analysis of quality reviews to identify trends, significant problems areas and processes requiring improvement.
• Relays quality trend information with management on an ongoing basis for use in operations, decision making, and planning.

• Provide administrative, technical, and training support in one or more of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility (DEIA) initiatives.
• Help assist the DEIA/EEO manager with the implementation of the agency's DEIA strategic plan.
• Work with the DEIA/EEO manager to assist in planning, administering, and evaluating overall EEO policies, practices, and programs to ensure nondiscrimination in employment and in other programs provided by the agency.
• Provide pre-complaint counseling in accordance with applicable federal regulations and EEOC. Provide information to applicants, employees, former employees, supervisors, managers, regarding their rights and obligations.
• Provide briefings, training presentations to agency employees around DEIA and EEO.
• Assist with obtaining data requirements for reporting on behalf of the agency.
• Other duties as assigned.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will as a Management and Program Analyst. Typical assignments include:

• Tracking timelines and coordinates with program leads/staff on the development of various deliverables and documents to ensure effective and efficient execution of projects.
• Assisting with planning and program management for initiatives, including supporting policy and guidance development.
• Coordinating with stakeholders and facilitating discussions to identify the strategies needed to build and improve capabilities necessary for national preparedness.
• Developing relationships with regional partners and other States, Tribes, Territories and Local government partners to improve strategies focusing on capability shortfalls and gaps.
• Providing input into designs, implementation, and evaluation of proactive strategies to communicate the Agency's mission and programs to agency partners.

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.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

Promotion Potential: Future promotions will be dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and administrative approval.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist (Public Assistance Group Supervisor) for Region One.

Typical assignments include:

• Preparing all stakeholders to administer the Public Assistance Grant Program.
• Coordinating and conducting Preliminary Damage Assessments.
• Coordinating with other entities on recovery efforts.
• Serving as a subject matter expert on Public Assistance policy and providing guidance to leadership to support Recovery operations
• Providing oversight for financial assistance via the Public Assistance Grant Program under a disaster declaration to tribes, communities, territories, commonwealths and states for emergency work and permanent restoration work.
• Administration of the Public Assistance Grant Program, including but not limited to ensuring compliance with quarterly progress reports, making eligibility determinations, conducting briefings to applicants of the Public Assistance Grant Program, and providing Public Assistance report data to leadership.
• Supervising and directing of Public Assistance staff performing the duties described above.
• Developing DPE's for field staff at the JFO's and tracking and advising employees of their progress
• Addressing field staff conduct issues.

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 a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. 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 three 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 4-year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

• Provide expertise to create and review agency national acquisition policies as they relate to contract administration and agency acquisition systems as well as to the users of the systems with which acquisition system interfaces.
• Create procedures and policies that improve how OAS acquires services, products, or supplies.
• Maintain a working knowledge of contract administration support needs within OAS and other GSA Staff Offices serviced by OAS contracting workforce and will provide technical acquisition support, advice and guidance as needed.
• Collect, analyze and distribute usage and performance data, in easy to use format, to encourage consistency, improvement and increased usage of acquisition related systems.

The position is within the Export-Import Bank of the United States, Office of Board Authorized Transactions (OBAF), Engineering and Environment Division (E&E). This division is responsible for technical reviews of transactions to implement the environmental and social policies and procedures of EXIM.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Uses environmental scientific mastery expertise as an environmental engineer or Physical Scientist which is required to oversee, monitor, and complete project related transactions and to undertake the evaluation of the project throughout the implementation, construction, and operating phases.
• Provides consultation to domestic and international stakeholders regarding health, environmental and natural resources issues associated with exposures to environmental contaminants and chemical toxins.
• Completes EXIM's environmental assignments, initiatives, activities, and projects which affect the work of various environmental engineer and scientific experts, top officials, or affects the development of major segments of the agency's programs.
• Prepares written evaluations in accordance with EXIM environmental and social review procedures that address both beneficial and adverse environmental and social effects of the projects under review. Travels domestically and internationally as needed to attend transaction related environmental and social meetings.
• Performs due diligence on projects, including pre-authorization site inspection, and monitoring of project construction and operations.
• Monitors projects and evaluates progress/operating reports prepared by sponsors and/or independent consultants.
• Serves as a professional Environmental spokesperson to Bank customers and stakeholders on all aspects of the Bank's environmental and social policies and procedures.
• Interfaces with suppliers and project sponsors on issues concerning the environmental standards of products proposed for export and use, and the compliance of these products with EXIM's Environmental and Social Due Diligence Procedures and Guidelines.

The position is within the Export-Import Bank of the United States, Office of Board Authorized Transactions (OBAF), Engineering and Environment Division (E&E). This division is responsible for technical reviews of transactions to implement the environmental and social policies and procedures of EXIM.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Uses environmental scientific mastery expertise as an environmental engineer or Physical Scientist which is required to oversee, monitor, and complete project related transactions and to undertake the evaluation of the project throughout the implementation, construction, and operating phases.
• Provides consultation to domestic and international stakeholders regarding health, environmental and natural resources issues associated with exposures to environmental contaminants and chemical toxins.
• Completes EXIM's environmental assignments, initiatives, activities, and projects which affect the work of various environmental engineer and scientific experts, top officials, or affects the development of major segments of the agency's programs.
• Prepares written evaluations in accordance with EXIM environmental and social review procedures that address both beneficial and adverse environmental and social effects of the projects under review. Travels domestically and internationally as needed to attend transaction related environmental and social meetings.
• Performs due diligence on projects, including pre-authorization site inspection, and monitoring of project construction and operations.
• Monitors projects and evaluates progress/operating reports prepared by sponsors and/or independent consultants.
• Serves as a professional Environmental spokesperson to Bank customers and stakeholders on all aspects of the Bank's environmental and social policies and procedures.
• Interfaces with suppliers and project sponsors on issues concerning the environmental standards of products proposed for export and use, and the compliance of these products with EXIM's Environmental and Social Due Diligence Procedures and Guidelines.