This position is located in Region Ten Mitigation Division Floodplain Management & Insurance Branch. The ideal candidate for this position has experience coordinating with federal agencies, tribes, states, or local communities regarding various aspects of floodplain management including the National Flood Insurance Program and the protection of natural floodplain functions.
The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position at the GS-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following: Collaborating with federal, state, tribal, local communities, or other stakeholders to develop plans, outreach, or education related to the implementation of floodplain management standards; and Serving as a spokesperson and/or expert at conferences, meetings, committees or working groups; and Leading or participating on a team of multiple subject matter experts; and Writing or editing technical material. Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application: Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. Please limit your resume to five pages. If more than five pages are submitted, only the first five pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications. Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your experience. Are you qualifying based on your work experience? Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the occupational series, grade level, and dates in which you held each grade level. Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE) employee? To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found "not qualified." Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills, and provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards
What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will perform emergency management work. Typical assignments include: Managing investigations of stakeholder programs for their interface and compatibility with FEMA's programs and ensuring effective collaboration efforts and benefit to all agencies. Serving as a senior regional consultant and subject-matter expert focusing on a variety of complex assignments related to communication and coordination activities between headquarters mitigation constituency groups and intergovernmental audiences involving mitigation policy, programs, and initiatives. Promoting The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) which has a goal to reduce the impact of flooding on private and public structures by providing affordable insurance for property owners. Encouraging communities to adopt and enforce floodplain management regulations, which will mitigate the effects of flooding on new and improved structures. Helps communities reduce the socioeconomic impact of disasters by promoting the purchase and retention of insurance through the NFIP. Ensuring the implementation of regional mitigation programs that engage all stakeholders in reducing the frequency, severity, and cost of disasters, injuries, fatalities, and impact on critical infrastructure and the environment. Performing technical writing functions, requiring substantial knowledge of the various areas of emergency management and of the specialized terminology required. Writes and/or edits technical materials, including reports of research findings, regulations in technical areas; technical manuals and specifications. 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.