Emergency Management Specialist

This announcement is for 2 different Emergency Management Specialist (Recovery) positions in the Louisiana Recovery Office. A Voluntary Agency Liaison Crew Lead and a Housing Unit Crew Lead.

This announcement is part of a Region Six Hiring Event.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Emergency Management Specialist (Recovery) position, you will support the Louisiana Recovery Office by serving as either a Housing Unit Crew Lead or a Voluntary Agency Liaison Crew Lead.

Typical assignments for a Housing Unit Crew Lead include:

• Manage field applicant services staff conducting direct housing recertification.
• Provide first line guidance and technical assistance.
• Conducting monthly recertification visits with survivors.
• Assisting with developing permanent housing plans.
• Establish and develop reports based on case load.
• Ensure data is entered into the system of record.
• Coordinate with State, Non-Governmental Organizations and case management agencies on potential housing resources.

Typical assignments for a Voluntary Agency Liaison Crew Lead include:

• Serves as a Voluntary Agency Crew Lead to assist with voluntary agency coordination and disaster services in support of recovery efforts.
• Provides technical assistance to long term recovery and unmet needs committees.
• Compiling, reconciling, and correlating voluminous workload data from a variety of sources with different reporting requirements and formats, data must be carefully cross-checked, analyzed and interpreted to obtain accurate and relevant information.
• Supports the evaluation of individual disaster recovery processes and linking individual to community, voluntary agency resources and disaster case management.
• Ensures that significant long-term recovery issues and trends are brought to the attention of immediate supervisor.

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.

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