Telecommunication Specialist

The ideal candidate will have experience providing direct secure communications support to agency leadership, experience with emergency management, and a strong working knowledge of continuity communications systems.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position,the typical assignments include:

• Develops procedures and checklists to ensure the operational readiness of mission equipment and personnel.
• Evaluates, coordinates, and monitors the deployment, placement, installation, integration, operation, maintenance, and tear down of a large variety of mobile/transportable, wide-band and narrow-band radio frequency systems with their associated ancillary equipment at deployed locations.
• Conducts analysis of off-the-shelf and prototype radio frequency systems and sub-systems with voice, data, and video telecommunications equipment; tests and evaluates for compatibility with FEMA standard systems using resources available from guidelines and standards, and/or develops additional methods or uses current technologies to accomplish more efficient outcomes.
• Provides support to senior leadership, to include secure communications, transportation, and logistics.
• Develops, documents, and implements system administration standard operating procedures, security procedures, and tools.

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.

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