This position is being announced under FEMA's Incident Management Assistant Team (IMAT) Program. This is a 4-year temporary appointment in the Excepted service. This position is located on a Type II Regional IMAT team and has a starting salary range of $42.99 per hour to $47.76 per hour; however, the maximum salary possible in this position is $60.02 per hour. Salary listed includes locality pay.
All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. To qualify for this Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Response) - Operations Task Force Leader (OPTL) position at the IT-02 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the IT-01 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: Leading a team of emergency response staff in all phases of disaster operations; Coordinating emergency readiness operations at the Operations and/or Incident Command level; and Conducting critical analysis of data, making recommendations, and developing operational readiness reports. OR Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M. OR Combination of education and experience 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)? 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 serve as an Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Response) - Operations Task Force Leader (OPTL) for Regional Offices, Region Six, Response Division, IMAT Branch. When deployed, the Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Response) - Operations Task Force Leader (OPTL) is responsible for Leading ad hoc task forces to meet specific disaster goals and strategies. Typical assignments include: Supporting the OSC with development, coordination, and implementation of providing employee services to leadership and other stakeholders during deployments. Facilitating communication, coordination, and collaboration across aspects of response by serving as a liaison to Field Operations. Communicating any new policies, guidelines, or instructions to managers, supervisors, and or employees regarding personnel administrative requirements. Submitting items for the Remedial Action Management Program (RAMP) to immediate supervisor. Hold personnel accountable for execution of assigned tasks. Supporting and collaborating with PA staff, Maintain an accurate map of the completed areas of responsibility. Ensuring accurate operational information is included on the ICS 215. Ensuring task descriptions provide clear, concise direction, and performance expectations that support the incident objectives. Coordinating / assisting with the Operations Section's development of the Incident Action Plan. Explaining each subordinate's assignments in the context of the bigger picture. Keeping subordinates informed of decisions, actions, and changes that affect them. Establish work assignments, provide feedback to FEMA program and ESF leads on performance appraisals for personnel assigned to the Division. Coordinating / assisting with the sharing of information between the local government, the Operations Staff, and the state/tribe. Coordinating with geographic branch/division task force/crew leaders, single resources and ESFs/RSFs to prepare for the Operations Tactics Meeting, and other duties as assigned by the Operations Section Chief. When not deployed, the Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Response) - Operations Task Force Leader (OPTL) will participate in exercises at the national, regional, and state levels. Typical assignments include: Advising on the development and documentation of business administrative functions and planning, that affect critical aspects of the IMAT mission as designated by the Operations Section Chief. Providing and informing leadership of critical shortfalls on operational requirements and recommending resource adjudication. 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 an IMAT CORE (Incident Management Assist Team, Cadre of Response/Recovery Employee). IMAT CORE employees are full time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. IMATs are the first FEMA personnel deployed to an incident and manage the field-level federal response and early recovery with a primary focus on critical infrastructure stabilization, especially life-saving and life-sustaining efforts. Appointments to IMAT CORE positions are four years in duration and may be renewed based upon workload needs and funding availability. 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 3 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.