What will I do in this position if hired?
In this Public Affairs Specialist position, you will serve as a Regional lead on all active disaster, and disaster closeout, external affairs initiatives. Independently prepares current disaster response and recovery information and news data for dissemination to internal and external stakeholders.
Typical assignments include:
- Providing Regional connection and consistent communication to deployed External Affairs (EA) personnel including External Affairs Officers (EXAO) and Joint Information Center (JIC) throughout response and recovery operations and as the work progresses through disaster closeout.
- Providing EA subject matter expertise for Region 1 federally declared disasters.
- Developing and delivering consistent messages focused on news media, elected officials, incident personnel, and other agencies and organizations for release.
- Monitoring incoming media inquiries and ensure that they are responded to in a timely manner.
- Developing opportunities to increase the understanding of FEMA programs and disaster operations through media outreach and relationship development.
- Overseeing and coordinating closeout activities of ESF-15 External Affairs disaster-related documents and products for all Region 1 disasters.
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 $116,820 Per Year (IC 13)
