What will I do in this position if hired?
In this position, you will serve as a Financial Management Specialist for Region One in Cambridge, MA.
Typical assignments include:
- Preparing and submitting allocation requests to fund regional disaster travel and Programs - PA, HM, and IA.
- Reviewing and approving requests for supplies, equipment, or services to support disaster operations, confirming requests have accurate fund coding, are appropriately authorized and justified.
- Managing disaster travel, disaster blankets and funding.
- Adding staff to blankets, certifying blanket funding and local travel vouchers in Concur.
- Assisting staff with travel authorizations, vouchers and any questions, as needed.
- Managing and submitting monthly Disaster spend plans, closely coordinating with Programs and the National Spend Plan Team in reconciling trackers and submitting projections.
- Reviewing various funding reports daily, ensuring funds are allocated, committed and obligated appropriately, including returning funding, as needed.
- Submitting payroll funding for disasters monthly.
- Tracking and resolving unliquidated obligations and submit explanations quarterly.
- Maintaining communications and awareness with the Regional Comptroller.
- Supporting the Finance and Admin Section in an Emergency Assignment role to support the Regional Response Coordination Center if activated.
- Coordinating closely with Logistics and Operations.
- Managing the surge account and transitioning funding to the Disaster Relief Fund, overseeing travel, creating blankets, tracking lodging availability, submitting and processing lodging waivers, as needed.
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 2-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.
Starting at $98,240 Per Year (IC 12)
