Emergency Management Specialist

Federal Emergency Management Agency•Blaine, MN

About The Position

The Emergency Management Specialist serves as the FEMA Integration Team (FIT) Lead, supporting the State of Minnesota in building resilience through planning, community preparedness, exercises, training, evaluations, and continuous improvement. The position is co-located with state emergency planning partners and provides technical support and assistance to partners implementing emergency management preparedness concepts. The FIT Lead performs substantive mission-oriented work and advises senior-level management and professional staff in FEMA regional offices and related agencies. The role includes assessing community risks; representing FEMA in conferences, meetings, committees, and working groups; implementing emergency management programs and procedures; and preparing technical writing requiring substantial emergency-management knowledge. FEMA employees have recurring emergency-management responsibilities and may be recalled at any time for operations. The position may involve irregular hours, duties outside the official position description, work away from the official duty station, and extensive travel with little advance notice. Deployment may last weeks or months and may involve relocation to physically austere and operationally challenging emergency sites. If selected, the employee must attend a three-week in-person training course in Emmitsburg, Maryland, within six months of onboarding.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
Successfully pass and maintain a Public Trust/NCS Moderate Risk background investigation; this may include a credit check and review of financial issues and certain criminal or drug-related matters.
Register for Selective Service, if applicable.
Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements, including 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
Ability to deploy with little or no advance notice anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period.
At the GS-13 level, one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal government, obtained in federal, state or local government, or the private sector.
Specialized experience must include implementing pre-disaster preparedness programs or projects supporting preparedness planning, risk assessment, training, exercises, or community preparedness activities.
Specialized experience must include leading teams or workgroups coordinating emergency management or preparedness activities with Federal, State, Tribal, territorial, or local government partners.
Applicants must describe relevant work experience in their resume, including job title, employer, employment dates, duties and accomplishments, related skills, and hours worked per week. Federal experience must also include grade level, occupational series, and dates at each grade level.
Attend a three-week, in-person training course in Emmitsburg, Maryland, within six months of onboarding if selected.
Subject to random drug testing under FEMA's Drug-Free Workplace Plan; refusal to be tested may result in disciplinary action up to removal from federal service.

Responsibilities

Serve as the FEMA Integration Team Lead while co-located with state emergency management partners.
Perform substantive mission-oriented work and serve as a program manager and advisor to senior-level management and professional staff in FEMA regional offices and related agencies.
Participate in community risk assessments and maintain an understanding of natural, technological, and terrorism risks facing localities, regions, and the Nation.
Serve as a spokesperson or subject-matter expert at conferences, meetings, committees, and working groups addressing continuity and emergency response criteria.
Implement emergency management programs, practices, training, and procedures to identify, minimize, or eliminate hazards and threats.
Perform technical writing requiring substantial knowledge of emergency management and its specialized terminology.
Support preparedness planning, community preparedness, exercises, training, evaluations, and continuous improvement.
Deploy in support of emergency operations, potentially with little or no advance notice and for extended periods.