What will I do in this position if hired?
In this Recovery Planning Coordinator position, you will serve as the Region's expert on local and community recovery planning and capacity building, providing authoritative advice and consultation to interagency and other partners, program participants, and stakeholders, and must demonstrate the ability to plan coordinated recovery efforts and advise State, Tribal and Local governments on planning and capacity building matters.
Typical assignments include:
- Analyzing quantitative data to identify if communities may need disaster recovery technical assistance; brief disaster leadership; and engage community leaders.
- Performing Community Assistance tasks at a regional and/or level, in collaboration with and under the guidance of regional Interagency Recovery Coordination and/or leadership; maintaining ongoing communications with partners and developing planning products.
- Coordinating community based pre- and post-disaster recovery planning and capacity building support to state, tribal, and local government officials, as well as Federal, Private, and Non-Governmental recovery partners.
- Facilitating community planning engagements in concert with all internal and external partners. Interfacing with interagency partners, including hazard mitigation, to support recovery plans, before and after disasters.
- Providing technical assistance and support in development of recovery plans in coordination with local resources to disaster-damaged communities.
- Developing and implementing workplans, procedures, and policies to manage long-term disaster recovery is in line with Federal and Regional doctrine and guidance.
- Developing and maintaining contact with governmental agencies, private non-privates and other organizations to exchange ideas and remain current on community recovery developments.
- Identifying priorities, monitoring, and tracking progress, outlining strategies, reviewing outcomes and developing best practices or lessons learned for disaster recovery programs.
- Providing authoritative advice and consultation to interagency and other partners, program participants, and stakeholders.
- Developing and delivering briefings, reports, training, workshops and/or presentations to internal leadership and external partners to educate; supporting other outreach/coordination activities.
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.
Starting at $109,278 Per Year (IC 13)