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Environmental Protection Specialist

3 months ago

Oakland, California, United States Federal Emergency Management Agency Full time
What will I do in this position if hired?


In this Environmental Protection Specialist position, you will serve as an Environmental Protection Specialist on the Individual Assistance Direct Housing Team within the Region 9 Mitigation Division, advising regional and disaster leadership on how to avoid or minimize adverse impacts to the environment and comply with environmental planning and historic preservation responsibilities.


Typical assignments include:
Serving as a technical authority on environmental compliance reviews in support of the mission to provide direct housing assistance to individuals and households affected by a disaster

Advising FEMA and state, local, tribal, and territorial government officials on all matters to comply with Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation laws, regulations, Executive orders, and public notice requirements.

Implementing the eight-step decision-making process for direct housing to address floodplain considerations and providing compliance advice related to Executive Orders Floodplains), Wetlands), and Environmental Justice), and Federal Flood Risk Management Standard).

Developing environmental documentation and reports, to include developing, reviewing, and finalizing consultation and agreement documents, standard operating procedures, and tools related to environmental and historic preservation compliance.

Analyzing/synthesizing information using tools such as GIS and other Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation data and applications.

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 a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters.

Appointments to CORE positions are typically between two years and 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 three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

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