Total 9 job vacancies in Austin, TX

• For AFC HQ elements and all downtrace/subordinate organizations, provide legal advice on acquisition and contract law, across all phases of FAR-based and non-FAR-based acquisition vehicle in pre-award, award, and post-award administration.
• Advise on pre-award and post-award documents and actions including contracts and grants; support litigation for protests and appeals, and assist in contract administration matters such as modifications, cost allowability, and intellectual property.
• Actively participate in advice and representation of the organization in meetings with senior officials. Prepare and present briefings to gain approval on program decisions and policy changes.
• Conduct research and analysis on legal issues affecting acquisition processes.
• Serve as lead counsel on contract and fiscal law and appropriations matters, providing guidance on the legality and propriety of fund expenditures. Analyze legislative provisions and ensure compliance with relevant statutes.
• Provide training on contracts and fiscal law to resource management personnel and develop guidance on complex legal issues related to procurement and financial responsibilities.
• Represent the government in bid protests, ensuring thorough preparation of documentation and legal briefs. Collaborate with contracting activities to support procurement efforts.
• As needed, provide administrative law and ethics law advice.

This Stakeholder Manager position is located at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Working closely with leadership to develop, coordinate, implement and maintain a program to communicate to stakeholders TSA's policies, programs, and directives.
• Identifying and responding to stakeholders' questions, programs, and concerns regarding security.
• Recommending changes to improve communications with stakeholders.
• Working to identify and implement best practices to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of aviation security policies.

WHAT IS THE TAXPAYER SERVICES (TS)DIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

This cadre provides for the advance identification and utilization of a cadre of well qualified and highly motivated employees to fill temporary non-bargaining unit management assistant positions. As a Management & Program Assistant Cadre, you will be responsible for: Following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

• Identifies potential and actual problems and probable causes. Researches a variety of issues, gathers pertinent statistics or information, reports findings to higher level employee, and may recommend corrective action for aspects of a program or function.
• Monitors, reviews, and evaluates operations and interrelationships with other functions regarding workflow, work redundancy, or systemic problems and report findings to higher level employee(s).
• Verifies completeness and accuracy of controls to ensure compliance with established procedures and formats.
• Revises procedures, controls, etc., as instructed by analyst(s) or comparable positions.
• Drafts memoranda, preliminary reports, and charts showing findings or recommendations.

• Develops initial prototype analytics that employ statistical methodologies to fused data sources which are derived from end-user requirements.
• Primary development will focus on eventual hosting in a cloud or hybrid cloud environment.
• Engages with AFC and subordinate command elements to conduct necessary stakeholder analysis to ensure analytics projects support end-user requirements.
• Conducts iterative agile development with domain experts in a typical weekly or bi-weekly scrum-type collaborative framework.
• Demonstrates advanced programming expertise using the latest version of advanced data science software, with a focus on open-source languages (e.g. R, Python).
• Extensive knowledge with SQL and NoSQL database technologies, as well as distributed data

• Reviews fiscal law and advises on issues concerning the appropriation of funds by Congress within the confines of the law relating to purpose, time, and amount.
• Provide fiscal law advice on, Working Capital Fund, OMA, DAWDF, Procurement, and RDTE Funding, end of year certification, Appropriated Fund management, and contingent liability reporting.
• Prepares opinions and furnishes legal advice concerning facilities contracts and related matters, utilization and disposal of Government property.
• Advise the AFC G8 and Resource Management (RM) Directorate’s various working groups

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will develop, write, and edit accurate news releases, talking points, reports, daily fact sheets, flyers, and brochures.

Typical assignments include:

• Coordinating and disseminating emergency management communications tactics and products.
• Providing input to briefing materials including talking points, speeches and presentation slides.
• Determining appropriate modes of communication via social media, news releases, press conferences, town hall meetings, etc.
• Developing plans and strategies for the internal and external integration of day-to-day and long-range projects, actions, and activities.

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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Emergency Management Specialist (Recovery) position, you will manage and coordinate disaster recovery programs and initiatives.

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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Supervisory Logistics Management Specialist position, you will serve as a Supervisory Logistics Management Specialist for the Texas Integration and Recovery Office (TIRO) and supported program areas.

Typical assignments include:

• Providing logistics, facilities, and maintenance managerial support for the Texas Integration and Recovery Office;
• Working with the TIRO Chief of Staff on organizational priorities, adjacent staff, and regional staff;
• Supervising and planning work for subordinates plans short term and long-range projects and ensuring the logistics team is prepared to respond in support of a disaster.

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 3-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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Emergency Management Specialist (Recovery) position, you will be supporting the Regional Offices, Region Six, Recovery Division, Public Assistance Branch as an Emergency Management Specialist.

Typical assignments include:

• Serving as a Public Assistance (PA) Liaison and performing substantive mission-oriented work to regional recovery staff and leadership concerning policy issues dealing with aiding individuals and/or communities by providing disaster support and delivering disaster assistance to events.
• Serving as the primary POC for all Public Assistance activities to the state for Region Six.
• Applying law regulation and policy as it relates to the PA Program; Writing and editing correspondence; Reviewing customer submitted documentation and provide analysis; Experience working with stakeholders both internal and external to the agency.
• Supporting Preliminary Damage Assessments (PDAs), which could include performing PDA's, and exchanging information with the PDA Coordinator and state counterparts and assisting with FMAGP coordination.
• Providing technical program guidance, conducting and oversight of program audit reviews/final cost adjustments, Scope of Work revisions, review of time extension project requests, facilitates resolution of issues, conducting analysis of closeout documentation, preparation of PW versions, writing letters, provide cohesive eligibility recommendations, monitor spend plan compliance, and quarterly reporting requirements and monitors grants.
• Working with various parts of the organization to provide required assistance to the affected communities and States.

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.