What will I do in this position if hired?
In this Local Hire (External Affairs Specialist) position, you will coordinate with Logistics, Human Resources, Finance and Administrative sections as necessary.
Typical assignments include:
- Providing overall administrative support for External Affairs staff and management of office space and equipment.
- Planning, organizing, and adjusting assignments and workloads.
- Compiling and maintaining External Affairs briefings and researching information.
- Assisting staff with payroll, travel vouchers, and training.
- Using computers and computer applications such as Microsoft Outlook, MS Word and Excel to analyze and communicate information in the appropriate format.
What else do I need to know?
This announcement is for a position as a FEMA Local Hire. Local Hire employees help FEMA respond to, recover from and mitigate hazards by performing a variety of emergency management functions which are not limited to disaster survivor assistance, conducting and verifying damage assessments, and providing administrative, financial and logistical support.
Local Hires are Temporary Positions. The Local Hire Program is an appointment type granted under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, Section 306 (b), which authorizes FEMA to appoint such temporary employees as necessary to accomplish work authorized under the Act. Appointments under this authority within FEMA are made to the excepted service and are nonpermanent in nature. A local hire's term of employment is 120 days. Local Hire appointments may be extended, in 120-day increments, based on the needs of the disaster.
FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflect the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people it serves. To learn about the ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.
Starting at $23.04 Per Hour (IH 00)