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• Conduct complex analytical studies that are of special interest to specific functional activities or programs, and participate in unusual, controversial and sometimes highly sensitive aspects of the program/system.
• Serves as the focal point and facilitates requirements gathering sessions, including requirements envisioning; and assists the product owner in managing requirement dependencies with other product teams.
• Prepares and/or conducts briefings for higher level management to explain the specific analysis of subject matter, as well as to provide recommendations or action plans and provide guidance and/or direction for implementation.

• Serve as the NEC Acquisition Action Officer.
• Execute and maintain budget for Operations Maintenance Army (OMA) budgets and Other Procurement Actions (OPA) budgets for assigned accounts.
• Responsible for the management and control of the office Government Purchase Card (GPC) program.
• Manage a variety of administrative programs for the directorate dealing with publications, records management, correspondence, TDY, ATAAPS and information management.
• Prepares and staffs all civilian personnel actions for the NEC.
• Develop and manage the NEC Tables of Distribution and Allowances and Local Tables of Distribution and Allowances (TDA)/(LTDA) and maintains a current manning document.

This role is the ideal next career step for you if:

• You want to play a key role in providing expert level advice facilitating the efficient collection, management, and analysis of information data related to the patent prosecution process.
• You're proficient in identifying problems and deficiencies in reissue, utility, design and provisional application submissions and generate notices to inform applicant of problems and deficiencies identified.
• You adept providing expertise reviewing incoming applications content submitted.
• You possess strong, efficient techniques preparing data and recommendations in narrative, spreadsheet, graph, or chart form.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will as a Management and Program Analyst. Typical assignments include:

• Tracking timelines and coordinates with program leads/staff on the development of various deliverables and documents to ensure effective and efficient execution of projects.
• Assisting with planning and program management for initiatives, including supporting policy and guidance development.
• Coordinating with stakeholders and facilitating discussions to identify the strategies needed to build and improve capabilities necessary for national preparedness.
• Developing relationships with regional partners and other States, Tribes, Territories and Local government partners to improve strategies focusing on capability shortfalls and gaps.
• Providing input into designs, implementation, and evaluation of proactive strategies to communicate the Agency's mission and programs to agency partners.

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.

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 www.fema.gov.

Promotion Potential: Future promotions will be dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and administrative approval.

• Reporting and Data Management: Collects and analyzes a myriad of data and information and consolidates into a format that will be included in and become part of a larger study. Statistical data and analyses are generated on a daily, weekly, monthly, or annual basis, depending on the organization's needs.
• Administrative Management: Perform analyses of quality control processes involving controversial or complex administrative or programmatic issues or problems. Provide recommendations on difficult issues or problems impacting major programs, its organizational structure, or the use of new technology in operational processes. Monitor organization's strategy for changes in regulatory developments, workforce conditions, emerging priorities and directives from higher authorities and evaluates their impact on the program and its resources and provides interpretative guidance to subordinate activities.
• Special Projects: Manage special assignments at the direction of the supervisor to support goals and objectives. This includes working through pre-established plans and ensuring completion of work through efficient management of resources and tactful problem-solving skills.

• Provides resolutions to problems and issues related to assigned programs and projects.
• Executes program management, analysis, and project management responsibilities in support of the Army People Strategy.
• Advises leadership on areas of Army and organizational emphasis, critical trend analysis, and necessary program adjustments that are normally accepted without significant change.
• Develops briefings to market employment opportunities in the Army at academic institutions, professional associations, job fairs, and other venues.
• Manages research studies and analysis to synthesize and interpret results in order to make recommendations, develop guidance, and adjust programs.
• Serves as a process and team facilitator to analyze models to determine trends and requirements for the formulation and development of primary and alternative plans, policies and milestones.
• Utilizes analytical methodologies to collect, assess, and interpret data, facilitating informed decision-making and drawing conclusive insights.
• Collaborates across internal and external stakeholders, prepares reports, and conducts briefings to gain leadership support and ensure alignment with Army goals.

This position has job functions that must be executed within specific geographic locations. The official duty station is a federal facility, leased space, or an alternative worksite (typically the employee’s home) within the specified geographic area. Although you must reside and perform the job functions in the specific geographic location, it will not require you to report to the agency worksite on a regular and recurring basis.

• Senior project manager with responsibility for overall project management of prospectus level or equally complex or precedent setting projects. Leads the development of the most major, politically sensitive and complex project plans including methodology, resource requirements, timelines, priorities and budget impact. Directs and performs budget planning. Establishes evaluation criteria and measurements to assess projects. Prepares timelines for project completion, implementing a system for review, control, and reporting on project status.
• Ensures that projects delivered meet agreed to customer requirements. Manages all aspects of the of the project's finances. Ensures the latest trends and state of the art technologies in facility design, construction, alterations, space management, contracting, negotiations, and knowledge management are applied. Independently develops innovative solutions to address unanticipated project complications.
• Ensures the completion of project documents and makes certain they are uploaded into all necessary systems of record in order to track established performance metrics and historical trends. Conducts and documents lessons learned analysis.
• Negotiates and coordinates project plans, budget objectives and schedules with customer agencies to establish and/or manage customer expectations. Informs customer officials of project status and any requirements for additional agency initiated action.
• Works with stakeholders and key leadership in various Federal agencies, State and local governments, non-profits, community organizations, special interest groups, and environmentalists. Maintains and/or oversees continuous contact with Federal, State and local officials, and the media (in coordination with Public Affairs) with regard to project issues and status. Briefs key leadership on costs, impact, feasibility, alternatives, issues, recommendations and status of project development and implementation.
• Leads and facilitates the efforts and expertise of a wide range of disciplines. Serves as a mentor for team members and others.
• Directs the acquisition and management of large numbers and types of contracts supporting all aspects of leasing and/or Federal construction projects. Monitors progress and evaluates performance against contract requirements.
• Prepares or assists the Contracting Officer and/or the COR in the preparation of statements of work, determinations, findings and solicitation documents.
• Negotiates the business transaction with customer agencies, including utilization rates and financial obligations; develops complex, accurate requests for funding and tracks financial obligations and expenses throughout the planning, execution and close-out of projects.

• formulate budget and estimations to support plans, programs, and activities.
• Present and defend budget estimates before authorities.
• Review and evaluate budget requests.
• Control, and report obligations and expenditures.
• Analyze, interpret, and present data to process owners.
• Perform substantive/audit testing on Assessable Units (AUs) such as Civilian Pay (CIVPAY), Funds Receipt and Distribution, Temporary Duty (TOY), Equipment assets and Contract Vendor Pay.
• Report findings and work with management to create workable solutions for discrepancies found.
• Preform site-visits/spot checks to ensure programs are in compliance with DoD Financial Management Regulation, DoD Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) Guidance and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Emergency Management Specialist (Recovery) position, you will manage a team of Program Delivery Managers (PDMGs) developing projects on DRs, verify project eligibility, train and assist PDMGs when needed, understand PA policy and project development, work with leadership DR timelines, review projects, untangle complicated eligibility issues, maintain team morale, conduct sit-withs, liaise with PA Group Supervisor, ensure directives are followed.

Typical assignments include:

• Using customer service skills to facilitate the delivery of all aspects of the Public Assistance program to applicants; to include applying policy and procedure to damage assessments, disaster surveys, and public assistance recovery operations.
• Meeting with applicants throughout all phases of the disaster recovery process to provide advice, guidance and technical assistance on laws, policies and regulations.
• Managing recovery programs and projects, communicating requirements for assistance, managing applicant expectations, and using Federal Emergency Management Agency's delivery model to track projects.
• Coordinating with stakeholders on emergency management initiatives; to include participating in informational meetings and gatherings to the general public to communicate program eligibility requirements to larger audiences.

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. 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.

This position will be hired into a temporary 4 year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

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 www.fema.gov.

The primary purpose of this position is to direct, develop and implement policy programs and procedures for the accurate management of Supply Chain Management (SCM) planning. Serves as the Logistics Management Specialist and provides administrative and technical oversight to a lower-graded specialist.

Major duties of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Serves as the Logistics Management Specialist with responsibility for direction and control of logistics planning that includes multiple activities and may include geographically separated areas where no supply chain management personnel are assigned.
• Direct, develop and implement policy programs and procedures for the accurate management of Supply Chain Management (SCM) planning.
• Serves as the Logistics Management Specialist and provides administrative and technical oversight to a lower-graded specialist.
• Performs logistical assessments of strategic supply support in coordination with the supported customers and alerts management of systemic problems.
• Troubleshoots and resolves issues where supply chain deficiencies affect the mission.
• Ensures collaboration with appropriate managers to provide detailed data analysis.
• Schedules all requirements through the National Acquisition Center (NAG) to ensure equipment arrives according to planned tasking.

• Planning and leading design projects that deliver value to stakeholders.
• Managing the design work and resources to ensure teams have access to clearances, tools, and customers needed to conduct discovery, user research, and usability testing.
• Using the most effective research and design tools for improving government services based upon quantitative and qualitative assessments.
• Leading cross functional teams by collaborating with all decision making stakeholders, such as people who work in privacy, legal, policy, and regulatory areas to improve the digital services government delivers to the public.
• Designing and conducting discovery sprints, user research, usability testing, and other design activities that identify problems and generate solutions that meet end-user and organization needs.

• Duties are listed at the full performance GS-12 level
• Provides Regional advice and guidance to line and staff officers and other program managers in all aspects of the unit's grants and agreements to federal and non-federal agencies; state, local, and tribal governments; and other varying entities.
• Provides advice and guidance on the administrative aspects of partnership agreements including cooperative agreements, cost-share agreements, participating agreements, collection agreements, interagency agreements, and cooperative fire agreements.
• Exercises full and final authority to negotiate grants and agreements within the limits of delegated authority, reviews all reimbursement requests for appropriateness, and processes payments.
• Provides interpretation of laws and regulations concerning use of Federal funds and qualifying program expenditures. Determines appropriate legislative and program authority prior to execution of each grant or agreement.
• Develops instruments within the delegated authority, circularizes requests for proposals for grants and agreements, reviews and analyzes responses, and makes or recommends acceptance by higher authority as appropriate.
• Monitors and analyzes the effect of changes in laws, regulations and policies pertaining to grants and agreements, administration and management, and performance reporting.
• Plans and conducts annual meetings or workshops for agency personnel for maintaining partnership agreement and grant expertise
• Approves all official correspondence sent to partners, program personnel, and other interested parties relating to any specific case.
• Terminates grants and agreements as the situation dictates. Closes out grants and agreements within the established closeout procedures.

• Organize, plan, and coordinate various emergency response programs with Federal, state, and local entities.
• Serve on boards and working groups; brief various government agencies and solicit their comments; and negotiate on plan implementation and feasibility.
• Develop program for providing necessary emergency guidance as well as required training to installation personnel.
• Support the installation operational security program.
• Develop and post current information concerning actual and hypothetical disasters.

• You will be responsible for planning, obtaining, and performing a variety of administrative and program management functions to include research and analysis, communications, personnel, budget, accounting, procurement of administrative supplies, etc.
• You will participate in complex special projects, monitor activities or actions of the organization, and keep senior leadership properly informed of the highest priority items.
• You will ensure appropriate individuals are aware of actions requiring their attention and follow up to ensure actions are properly completed.
• You will identify problem areas within the program administration processes, makes recommendations, and assesses, revises policies and procedures to resolve issues.
• You will find ways to improve quality, timelines and efficiency of program management/administrative work.