Total 583 job vacancies in Vancouver, Washington

The Deputy Chief of the Litigation Unit is primarily responsible for directing, and supervising the Unit's attorneys, and two Assistant Deputy Chiefs. The Deputy Chief for Litigation also works with the supervisory paralegal specialist to coordinate the work of the paralegals, and oversees all of the litigation functions of the Section, including:

• Assignment and monitoring of workloads;
• Writing annual performance appraisals and other employee relations related matters;
• Coordinating the preparation of weekly and other periodic reports regarding the Unit's significant cases;
• Supervision of the Unit's statistical reporting to the Criminal Division and Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF);
• Ensuring that the Department's litigation-related policies and practices are adhered to by the Unit's attorneys;
• Coordinating the professional development, training, and mentoring of the Unit's attorneys;
• Coordinating and interacting with management from federal and international law enforcement agencies with whom Litigation Unit attorneys work;
• Representing the Section at international coordination meetings and at national and international narcotics-related conferences and training seminars; and
• Serving as the Section's liaison to the OCDETF at its periodic Regional and National conferences.

• Receives instructions and assists journeyman by using common carpentry tools to cut, drill, and assemble work products. Follows established safety procedures and practices when using hand and power equipment. Cleans tools and equipment and keeps work area clean and orderly.
• Helps the Maintenance Mechanic in plumber duties by performing the simpler and more routine tasks of the trade. Performs assigned routine tasks.
• Assists Maintenance Mechanic by performing the simpler and more routing duties of the painting trade and working with the journey level painters as instructed. Assists the Maintenance Mechanic by performing the simpler and more routine duties of the electrical trade and working with the journey level electricians as instructed.
• Performs a variety of general maintenance and upkeep duties in and around the assigned buildings and grounds.

The position is located in the Information, Technology & Data Division (ITDD); Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

Responsible for advanced systems projects and serves as a technical authority on the deployment and implementation of software applications and hardware upgrades developed by ITDD

Coordinates with the ITDD branches during the testing stages of application development to ensure that employees are trained in all aspects of the software and to begin developing implementation procedures, and to ensure deployment procedures address issues relating to network administration.

Supervises staff assist teams travelling to field locations for various implementation projects and the deployment of other software applications and hardware upgrades.

Serves as an expert resource for applications development, Internet technology, data warehousing, electronic data interchange, relational databases, and other information system technologies.

Plans, organizes, implements, monitors and administers numerous highly complex, integrated and state-of-the-art applications comprised of local area and wide area network users for Central Office divisions, regional offices, and institutions.

The candidate selected for this position will:

• Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust short-term priorities, and prepare schedules for completion of work; develop performance standards and evaluate work performance of subordinates; give advice and counsel to employees on both work and administrative matters; interview candidates for positions in the division; approve and/or disapprove leave and travel requests; hear and resolve complaints from employees; identify developmental and training need of employees providing or arranging for training to meet these needs; carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the corporation's employment practices and EEO programs.
• Manage work for contractors, lead the technical evaluation of proposals for new contracts, maintain close surveillance of contractors' progress, regularly review documents describing contract status, accept or reject invoices submitted by the Contracting Officer and serve as Contracting Officer's Representative (COR).
• Provide authoritative analysis, technical insight, advice and recommendations on complex, sensitive actuarial matters relating to single-employer and multiemployer pension plans.
• Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of underlying recommendations made in complex, highly technical initiatives, including applications for special financial assistance, benefit suspensions, plan partitions, facilitated mergers, settlement proposals, and bankruptcy negotiations.
• Provide insight and authoritative advice to the Chief Negotiating Actuary, the Chief of Negotiations and Restructuring, and other senior level staff, and suggest possible courses of action to maintain continuity in the development of interpretative and procedural rules relating to single-employer and multiemployer pension plan issues.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as a first level supervisor over a staff who perform analytical duties and serve as an advisor on the planning and evaluation of agency programs. Typical assignments include:

• Facilitating collaborative problem-solving work sessions with federal and nonfederal partners and industry leaders in the development of strategies to build tools and resources to increase recovery capacity at all levels of government.
• Leading a team to write and/or edit technical materials, policies, and guidance documents for leadership and executive review and to develop tools to assist the Community Assistance Recovery Support Function (CA RSF) in delivering its mission.
• Providing technical assistance, advice and guidance to state, tribes, territories, and localities to assess community recovery capacity and planning challenges and needs.
• Providing consultation to state, tribal and local leadership on long term recovery, redevelopment planning and on the Community Assistance Recovery Support Function (CA RSF) and to FEMA Field Leadership on operational requirements for capacity and planning support.

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.

Major duties for the GS-13:

• Serves as a Policy Advisor responsible for providing analysis, advice, and consultation to the Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary on current public policy, national policy priorities, national policy collaboration, national policy development, and program policy coordination on a variety of employment and employment-related policies for individuals with disabilities.
• Interacts with customers of the service systems that serve people with disabilities with their advocates and other external public constituents and experts in collecting information on national disability policies.
• Performs a wide range of duties and responsibilities such as evaluating and presenting divergent opinions affecting disability employment policy issues, and defining and describing feasible options including the impact of their adoption.
• Attends consultations, meetings, and conferences with public and private constituents and experts, advocacy groups DOL and other Federal agency officials, staff in State and local organizations to obtain information on disability employment issues; draft summaries of meetings, relevant analyses, and policy recommendations.
• Participates with senior-level policy staff in the analysis of proposed legislation and legislative proposals to identify existing gaps and anomalies; points out problems not resolvable administratively; evaluates the effect of changes to the various programs and systems.
• Provides consultative and advisory services, coordinates and negotiates with officials in other federal program offices, with state and local officials, and with representatives of private and public institutions.

• Performs duties in accordance with sound medical practices and established policies.
• Coordinates and manages the SRU Soldier’s recovery care plan and coordinates with providers to safely enhance the medical recovery plan.
• Documents the management note in a format that flows into the comprehensive MEB narrative summary (NARSUMS) utilizing consultant contributions and opinions as indicated.
• Completes Soldier paperwork for Line of Duty, Profiles, Special Compensation for Assistance with Activities of Daily Living (SCAADL), Non-Medical Assistant, and other program requirements.
• Coordinates with other physicians (family practitioners, general psychiatrists, etc.) in evaluating and correlating conflicting medical evidence for the exceptionally difficult and otherwise untreatable cases.
• Keeps abreast of the latest developments reported in medical literature and is able to apply an authoritative, critical judgment to developments reported.
• Provides appropriate referrals to other medical and mental health care providers in and outside of the MTF.

Duties include but not limited to:

• Coordinates and assists in developments, preparation, and justification of annual funding needs and revises the annual operating budget for a large service line.
• Determines the costs/benefits of various courses of action or operational methods.
• Coordinates and assists in the formal budget presentations and informal reviews that take place as needed within the VA Puget Sound Health Care System prior to discussions or submission.
• Provides information to VA Puget Sound Fiscal personnel that may be called upon to provide background information and/or expert testimony to defend service line operations and programs.
• Executes the budget in conformance with Puget Sound Health Care System and VA guidance, priorities and limitations.
• Follows related budget execution policies and procedures.
• Reviews requests for additional funds and unfinanced requirement submitted by sections to assure consistency, accuracy and adherence to VA policies and priorities.
• Ensures obligations incurred and resulting expenditures of funds are in accordance with existing laws and regulations.
• Reviews current and prior year transactions and reports to ensure all obligations and expenditures are properly documents and recorded.

Engages in proactive threat discovery through research and analysis of security-related material in order to maintain situational awareness of adverse information, and to identify threat content against Senators, their families, staff, and associated locations. Reports on security risks/concerns/persons of interest involving possible or actual threats to Senate Members, staff, the Capitol, and/or offices, and provides regular updates and applicable advice regarding these incidents. Implements outreach efforts, security assessment initiatives, and law enforcement coordination to ensure Senators and their Chiefs of Staff receive the necessary guidance, tools, and support when planning and attending public events as well as conducting outside travel. Reviews publicly available information and conducts open-source research to identify trends, patterns, and relationships that provide insights into threat and security issues. Other duties as assigned.

As an Information Technology Specialist (Infosec), you will:

- Provide technical expertise to the design, development, and implementation of information security policies and procedures. Devise and conduct risk assessment programs to identify areas of potential vulnerability in operating systems used throughout the organization.
- Prioritize and schedule areas to be evaluated and develops assessment criteria. Ensure compliance with government-wide information security policy directives.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of existing programs. Identifies new processes, techniques, and procedures to upgrade and enhance security protocols.
- Lead project teams to implement systems security programs and to integrate IT security with other disciplines.
- Provide technical advice and leadership on security aspects of network and systems design to ensure implementation of appropriate systems security applications and policies.

• You will apply knowledge of the Intelligence Community (IC) and how to operate projects/programs within the IC constraints.
• You will be skilled in various system development methodologies and frameworks including but not limited to: Waterfall, Kanban, Agile/Scrum.
• You will assess the feasibility of adopting new software design technologies within a secured environment.
• You will be skilled in cybersecurity principles, threats, and vulnerabilities.

• Serve as Civilian Personnel Advisory Center liaison and advisor to the organization's management and staff.
• Participate with CPAC and, as required, planners, in program evaluation of personnel programs and results.
• Use extensive knowledge and understanding of management principles, methods and practices to analyze, advise manage and perform substantive duties.
• Coordinate all Request for Personnel Actions for the organization
• Monitor compliance with civilian personnel management policies and procedures

As a Management & Program Analyst (Disaster Recovery) (Public Notice Flyer), you will:

Disaster Recovery Program and Policy Management:

• Provide program and analytical support to EDA's Division of Economic Development Integration and Disaster Recovery (EDI-DR).
• Prepare Economic Recovery Support Function (ERSF) and other disaster-related training materials for EDA and other federal staff for approval.
• Review ERSF mission assignment deliverables and lessons learned to facilitate continuous improvement.
• Research and documents disaster recovery and resilience best practices to inform EDA resilience strategies and activities.
• With oversight by the supervisor, develop and maintain EDA disaster recovery reporting products, dashboards, presentations and talking points, as needed, for DOC and EDA leadership. Analyze management information requirements to develop or operate program or administrative reporting systems.
• Develop and recommend reporting approaches that better meet higher level management information needs, identifying the data required for use in the management and direction of programs.

• Serve as the Contract Officer Representative (COR) to facilitate EDA's utilization of contractors for Disaster Recovery Missions by coordinating and providing contracting packages, such as Statement of Work (SOWs), Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs), Sole Source Justifications (SSJs), and contracting documentation acquisition office.
• Assist the Contracting Officer in the pre-award and post-award phases of procurement processes, including preparing solicitations and evaluating contract proposals in keeping with the terms and conditions of EDA's Disaster Recovery Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA).
• Provide technical direction to contract in accordance with the contract terms. This may involve clarying technical requirements, reviewing proposed changes, and assisting contractors in understanding complex contract elements.
• Maintain accurate and complete records, including inspection reports, meeting minutes, and communication logs, to document contractor performance. These records are used to provide feedback to the contracting officer and may serve as evidence during contract disputes or performance evaluations.

What will I do in this position if hired?

This position is being hired in compliance with the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Act to staff the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Claims Office within FEMA.

In this Program Analyst position, you will serve as an analyst and advisor to management on the evaluation of agency programs and resulting effectiveness issues.

Typical assignments include:

Pre-Award Duties

• Assisting in developing acquisition strategies to meet program goals
• Conducting research to identify qualified vendors and assess market conditions
• Drafting required documents (eg.,SOW, PWS, IGCE, etc) to define contract needs
• Participating in technical evaluation panels to assess proposals and recommend the best value for FEMA

• Overseeing contractor performance to ensure compliance with contract terms, technical requirements, and timelines
• Traveling as needed to New Mexico to verify contractor performance and adherence to contract timelines;
• Reviewing and processing contractor invoices for accuracy and compliance before payment.
• Supporting the closeout process by ensuring all contract obligations are fulfilled and properly documented
• Analyzing large volumes of data, and track deliverable status using spreadsheets (e.g., Excel).
• Communicating and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.

What else do I need to know?

This position will be hired into a temporary 4 year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

This position has promotion potential to the IC-13. Promotions are dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, successful performance review displaying at least one year of experience at the lower grade, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and management 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.

• Preparatory work such as delivery and assembly at the work site of tools, materials, and supplies.
• Cleaning surfaces, parts, and disassembling uncomplicated units or parts as directed, placing blocks and jacks under assemblies for removal or for disassembly and repair or transporting.
• Serves as a rigger's helper or a grounds signal person, or signal person for a crane operator.
• Performs brush and roller painting, minor carpentry, or any other similar work.
• Operates hand and power tools, jackhammers, pavement breakers, chipping hammers, vibrators, and grinders.