What will I do in this position if hired?
In this position, you will perform emergency management work in a watch operations center environment, including managing, and coordinating with other entities the response to intentional and/or unintentional crises, disasters, other humanitarian emergencies, hazards, or natural and man-made technological (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, high-yield explosives) incidents.
Typical assignments include:
- Performing substantive mission-oriented work in a FEMA region and serves as a Watch Officer responsible for informing regional response staff and leadership concerning policy issues dealing with immediate response to intentional and/or unintentional crises, disasters, other humanitarian emergencies, hazards, or natural and man-made/technological (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, high-yield explosives) incidents.
- Monitoring information from a variety of sources and providing daily situational reports, analysis, and briefings to regional staff regarding a broad range of hazards within the region and issues concerning the regional application of FEMA's enabling statutes, pertinent regulations, and/or general laws affecting the operation of the Federal government.
- Implementing headquarters and regional emergency management standards, regulations, practices, training, and procedures to identify, minimize or eliminate hazards and threats with a focus on response center operations.
- Conducting mission-oriented analyses of difficult and complex survivor-centric emergency response and assistance issues to inform response leadership decisions.
- Evaluating and producing improvements regarding efficiency issues and evaluation of major administrative aspects of substantive, mission-oriented programs.
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.
Starting at $108,245 Per Year (GS 12)