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.
Starting at $103,409 Per Year (IC 13)
