Fire Program Specialist

Federal Emergency Management Agency•Emmitsburg, MD

About The Position

The Fire Program Specialist serves in the U.S. Fire Administration’s Integrated Fire Services Division and supports national Fire/EMS data initiatives. The role plans, implements, monitors, analyzes, and evaluates outreach initiatives for the National Emergency Response Information System (NERIS) and historical data from the legacy National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS). It engages fire and emergency services stakeholders to improve data-product usability, participation, data quality, and partnerships. The position uses SQL and Databricks to retrieve, validate, and prepare Fire/EMS data, and Python, Power BI, and GIS to analyze results, trends, and quality issues. It also produces and reviews formal data products and internal documents and serves as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for one or more programs. FEMA employees have regular and recurring emergency-management responsibilities and may be recalled at any time. This position may involve irregular work hours, duties or locations outside the official position description, and extensive emergency travel with little advance notice. Deployments may last weeks to months and may require relocation to physically austere and operationally challenging sites. The selected employee must attend a three-week in-person training course in Emmitsburg, Maryland, within six months of onboarding; FEMA covers travel expenses.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
Successfully pass and maintain a Public Trust/Moderate background investigation.
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.
Obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
Be able to deploy with little or no advance notice anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period.
One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level, including analyzing fire and emergency services data to identify trends and support reliable data products; planning national-level Fire or Emergency Management Specialist data initiatives supporting data research, analysis, system operations, and stakeholder outreach; and managing Fire or Emergency Management Specialist data projects to improve data quality and usability for the fire service community.
Attend a three-week in-person training course in Emmitsburg, Maryland, within six months of onboarding.
New Federal competitive service employees and new supervisors and managers must complete a one-year probationary period.

Responsibilities

Plan, implement, monitor, analyze, and evaluate data outreach initiatives supporting NERIS and historical NFIRS data.
Engage with the fire and emergency services community to improve data-product usability and encourage participation in NERIS data-quality initiatives.
Develop, debug, and execute SQL queries in Databricks to retrieve, validate, and prepare Fire/EMS data for analysis and reporting.
Use Python, Power BI, and GIS to analyze query results and identify data trends, quality issues, and opportunities for improvement.
Produce and review formal data products and internal documents.
Serve as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for one or more programs.
Perform recurring emergency-management responsibilities and deploy to emergency operations when required.