Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist

1 month ago

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

When deployed:
Facilitating the Planning processes and/or leverages project management principles to enable Agency field program delivery.
Supporting and advising customers and program area staff on Planning processes and requirements to enable program delivery.

Communicating, collaborating, and coordinating amongst groups of diverse stakeholders with differing priorities by applying planning processes, principles, and frameworks.

Organizing and Resourcing the work group considering geographic dispersion and extent, incident complexity, operational tempo, operational requirements/constraints, and mission requirements.

Analyzing and interpreting agency policy and processes to establish disaster specific processes and products for subordinate managers and/or line employees.


When not deployed:


Participating in exercises at the national, regional, and state levels; to include all training as required by the position with states and other federal agencies, professional development and emergency management training and workshops.

Providing input for the development of and participates in the execution and documentation of functions and plans that affect critical aspects of FEMA's mission, operational responses, and programs.

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 an IMAT CORE (Incident Management Assist Team, Cadre of Response/Recovery Employee). IMAT CORE employees are full time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters.

IMATs are the first FEMA personnel deployed to an incident and manage the field-level federal response and early recovery with a primary focus on critical infrastructure stabilization, especially life-saving and life-sustaining efforts.

Appointments to IMAT CORE positions are 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 3 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

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