In this position, the ideal candidate should have the following experience:
Typical assignments include:
- Managing and executing recovery efforts for federally declared disasters, particularly under the Public Assistance program. A deep understanding of FEMA's regulations, policies, and the Stafford Act is essential.
- Ability to provide technical and administrative supervision to teams, with experience in coordinating recovery operations and overseeing staff responsible for executing disaster response, recovery, and closeout tasks. The candidate should be skilled at managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects with both regional and national impact.
- Interpreting and applying programmatic laws, policies, and regulations to disaster operations. The ability to provide technical guidance to leadership and external stakeholders on emergency management policies, as well as developing and reviewing regulations, is key.
- Coordinating with diverse stakeholders, including state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, as well as non-governmental organizations and the private sector. The candidate must be adept at resolving issues and providing assistance to health system applicants, such as hospitals, while managing complex grants and ensuring program compliance.
- Reviewing and evaluating grant documentation, including complex medical billing, for duplication of benefits and program eligibility, particularly with medical-related grants like those from the COVID response. The ability to manage public assistance operations, from disaster declaration to closeout, is critical.
- Leading teams to address challenges in disaster recovery operations, offering solutions and making decisions that ensure the effective delivery of services and resources to disaster survivors and communities.
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 years, 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 $135,860 Per Year (IC 14)