What will I do in this position if hired?
This position will serve as a Supervisory Community Planner for the Plan Implementation Team, Planning and Implementation Branch, Mitigation Division.
Typical job duties include:
- Leading an interdisciplinary team focused on growing the capabilities of region 9 state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTT) partners to implement their hazard mitigation plans with the goal of increasing resilience.
- Conducting supervisory functions of the team that include assigning, monitoring, and evaluating work assignments.
- Leading high-visibility strategic engagements with state, territory, and tribal partners to support hazard mitigation program priorities.
- Coordinating delivery of training and technical support to SLTT governments in the development and implementation of hazard mitigation plans and projects.
- Promoting hazard mitigation planning and funding opportunities through participation in webinars, conferences and/or other engagements with internal and external stakeholders.
- Managing contractual planning support including multi-year planning, project scoping, invoice reviews, and performance management.
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.
Starting at $128,717 Per Year (GS 13)