Total 30 job vacancies by Federal Emergency Management Agency

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this HR Specialist (Compensation) position, you will be working in the Payroll Section within the Office of Chief Human Capital Officer.

Typical assignments include:

• Interpreting and applying time and attendance and pay rules and regulations to analyze employee and
  payroll information to identify and resolve pay-setting errors or discrepancies.
• Analyzing pay, time and attendance, and leave laws and regulations to assist in developing guidance and other
  informational and training materials for managers and employees.

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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as an expert- level analyst and advisor to management on the evaluation of the productivity and efficiency of manage work and also. Typical assignments include:

• Collaborating with organizational program managers, key stakeholders, decision makers, and senior staff to ensure proper requirements development and provide day-to-day oversight of all contract activities.
• Responding to customers' inquiries from executives, leveraging advanced computer competency skills, preparing meeting materials, and facilitating pre-briefs/agenda discussions.
• Maintaining current custodial records, issuing hand receipts for all accountable property, and providing administrative support their custodial area including reviewing/approving invoices, and complete contract close-out.
• Collaborating with organizational program managers, key stakeholders, decision makers, and senior staff to ensure proper requirements development and provide day-to-day oversight of all contract activities.
• Monitoring contract performance, address performance issues, conduct performance evaluations, briefing interested parties on successes and challenges.

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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as a Subject Matter Expert in the Office of the Environmental Planning & Historic Preservation (OEHP) to ensure federal grant program compliance with the Clean Water Act (CWA), and/or the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), and/or the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA).
Typical assignments include:

• Providing environmental planning and historic preservation policy, planning, technical assistance, and project compliance support specific to the CWA, CZMA, and CBRA and FEMA's programs and operations
• Collaborating with EHP and Program stakeholders at the headquarters, regional, and field levels.
• Managing highly complex projects with short- and long-term objectives and facilitating often unprecedented resolutions with multiple stakeholders.
• Reviewing, drafting, or finalizing agreement documents, standard operating procedures, policy, guidance, resources, or tools, especially those related to streamlining EHP compliance reviews to CWA, CZMA, and/or CBRA.

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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as a Program Analyst (Budget) for the Resilience National Preparedness Directorate, Assistant Administrator, Business Operations Branch. Typical assignments include:

• Collecting budget data, performing data analysis, and preparing data visualization work products.
• Developing and managing program spend plans, budget reports, procurement trackers, travel funding, and travel cards.
• Reviewing procurement actions for funding availability, accuracy, program legitimacy, procedural requirements, and compliance with appropriate federal procurement regulations.
• Monitoring integrated financial management reporting information affecting programs with interrelated functions and operations for any anomalies.
• Planning and completing budget-related projects and assignments to meet deadlines based on the fiscal year cycle, as well as managing sensitive budget and procurement matters with internal and external stakeholders.

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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as a Supervisory Grants Management Specialist, overseeing the three Branches of the Award Administration Division within the Grant Programs Directorate. Typical assignments include:

• Leading a division comprised of highly skilled and certified Grants Management Specialists with financial policy and oversight responsibilities.
• Serving as an expert and advisor on complex grants management matters to the Director of the Grant Operations Administration, and other executives, on a routine basis.
• Providing strategic input on the development of Agency-wide grants management policies, practices and initiatives.
• Managing a multi-billion dollar and highly complex grants portfolio; representing the Agency as a "Steward of the Public Trust" regarding accountability of and oversight of federal funds and administrative and audit processes.
• Providing technical assistance, training, and mentorship as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the federal grants enterprise to recipients, subrecipients and other internal and external stakeholders.

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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (PAGS) (Recovery) position, you will determine eligibility of Public Assistance funding during project development.

Typical assignments include:

• Providing programmatic guidance based on FEMA PA policy, Stafford Act, and the Federal Code of Regulations.
• Interpreting and applying applicable laws, regulations, policies, handbooks, and procedures.
• Providing programmatic determinations and provide guidance to state and local governmental officials which directly applies to laws, policies, regulations, or other directives which govern the PA Program areas.

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 position, you will serve as a Program Analyst for the Resilience-FIMA, Federal Insurance, Policyholder Services Division. Typical assignments include:

• Supporting the development, drafting, and amending of FID regulations located at 44 CFR pts 61 and 62. Providing recommendations on amendments and revisions to regulations, procedures, and practices pertaining to insurance coverage and claims. Preparing Rules and Regulations that implement the intent and directions of Congress in the conduct and scope of the NFIP.
• Identifying policy issues and collaborates with subject matter experts to draft, update, and implement FID policy materials.
• Preparing and reviewing directives, guidelines, forms and other documents regarding flood insurance matters. Working with the contractor staff to develop and document practice and procedure manuals, including: the NFIP Claims Manual and the Flood Insurance Manual.
• Being responsible for the review, analysis, and recommendation of management procedures and policy revisions covering a variety of insurance issues.
• Exercising independent judgment in interpreting the intent of the guides, resolving complex issues and problems, and developing applications to specific areas of work, for example: Write Your Own (WYO) Program Basic Operational Documents; NFIP Flood Insurance Manual; NFIP Claims Manual; and Published NFIP Claims Practices and Procedures. Guidelines may be lacking, requiring new or improved methods to be tested which may provide a basis for future guidelines.

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.

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.

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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Program Analyst position, typical assignments include:

• Providing branch-wide project management support.
• Developing and updating online content for augmentation solutions.
• Coordinate the use of FEMA Reservists to support Call Center Operations

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 position, you will provide supervisory oversight to leadership staff that perform emergency management work. Typical assignments include:

• Ensuring regional regulations and policies developed in the mitigation areas are consistent with the statutory requirements and existing policies, their need is justified, and they are adequately supported by appropriate analysis.
• Directing subordinate staff to promote interest and encourage supportive participation by all stakeholders in FEMA's mitigation efforts at the community level including disaster and non-disaster grant programs.
• Implementing programs to engage all stakeholders in reducing the frequency, severity, and cost of disasters, injuries, fatalities, and impact on critical infrastructure and the environment.
• Assuring effective coordination of assigned responsibilities in the synchronization of innovations that encourage and foster a multi-hazard, community-based approach to mitigation activities at the Federal, State, local, tribal, territorial, non-governmental organizations, and private sector levels.
• Performing as a spokesperson at nation-wide conferences, meetings, committees and working groups that propose, defend and/or criticize continuity and mitigation criteria, in order to promote and maintain a pro-active response posture.

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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, position, you will provide supervisory oversight to leadership staff that perform emergency management work. Typical assignments include:

• Ensuring regional regulations and policies developed in the mitigation areas are consistent with the statutory requirements and existing policies, their need is justified, and they are adequately supported by appropriate analysis.
• Directing subordinate staff to promote interest and encourage supportive participation by all stakeholders in FEMA's mitigation efforts at the community level including disaster and non-disaster grant programs.
• Implementing programs to engage all stakeholders in reducing the frequency, severity, and cost of disasters, injuries, fatalities, and impact on critical infrastructure and the environment.
• Assuring effective coordination of assigned responsibilities in the synchronization of innovations that encourage and foster a multi-hazard, community-based approach to mitigation activities at the Federal, State, local, tribal, territorial, non-governmental organizations, and private sector levels.
• Performing as a spokesperson at nation-wide conferences, meetings, committees and working groups that propose, defend and/or criticize continuity and mitigation criteria, in order to promote and maintain a pro-active response posture.

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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as a EMS risk analyst within FEMA's Natural Hazards Risk Assessment Program (NHRAP). Typical assignments include:

• Serving as a project leader and point of coordination for FEMA program policy pertaining to risk assessment.
• Serving as a risk assessment program advisor for FEMA Headquarters and FEMA Regions, along with other Federal Agencies, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial, Non-Governmental Organizations, academia, and the private sector.
• Providing analytical and advisory services in the following program areas: risk analysis, geospatial modeling, data management, technological innovation, tools development (Hazus), interagency coordination, and development of loss modeling methodological guidance.
• Managing in the coordination of a variety of complex and typically long-term contract management activities that are in support of risk assessment strategic objectives, while ensuring contract requirements are adequately outlined in the scope of work, schedule, and performance evaluations.
• Writing and/or editing technical materials including reports of research findings, technical manuals and specifications, and guidance to accurately articulate agency regulations and policies, and explain technical aspects of agency risk assessment programs to those affected.

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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will. you will serve as Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist Typical assignments include:

• Providing branch and division leadership review and assessment of project planning, program compliance, policy/directive development, and asset/resource allocations to support day-to-day operational requirements of NHRAP activities.
• Supporting regular executive leadership updates, coordinating associated budget requests, utilizing review methods to align activities, and monitoring performance against strategic goals of NHRAP activities.
• Supporting development of execution plans, supporting the PPBE process, and PDO development.
• Managing, reviewing, and tracking complex requests to branch/division leadership and support staff regarding current and future project/program, services, systems, concepts, doctrine, practices, operations, and technologies.
• Establishing an NHRAP program (footprint) in each region.
• Providing a management structure for the positions, regionally managed and regionally supervised to implement the regional NHRAP program balancing HQ program, policy, and initiatives regarding risk assessment.

Promotion Potential: Future promotions will be dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and administrative approval.

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.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Investigator position, you will conduct preliminary inquiries and investigations into allegations of violation of federal laws or regulations, mismanagement, gross waste of funds, abuse of authority or substantial and specific danger to public health and safety, and employee misconduct. Handles all phases of the investigation and determines approaches, resources required, and deliverables, to include interviewing complainants, witnesses and subjects of the investigation. Cases often involve multiple issues, such as fraud, employee misconduct and criminal behavior.

Typical assignments include:

• Evaluating evidence for credibility, relevancy, and sufficiency and make findings of fact to resolve complaints.
• Researching and interpreting administrative regulations, policy statements, laws, and statutes to determine whether violations have occurred.
• Explaining the content of the law or regulation and demonstrating why the findings of the investigation constitute a violation.
• Preparing concise, exhaustive, and well-written reports to include reports of investigations, and executive summaries.

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.