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Summary This position is being announced under FEMA's Incident Management Assistant Team (IMAT) Program. This is a 2-year temporary appointment in the Excepted service. This position is located on a Type II Regional IMAT Team and has a starting salary range of $56.44 per hour to $64.91 per hour; however, the maximum salary possible in this position is $73.39 per hour. Salary listed includes locality pay. Responsibilities What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as an Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Planning Unit Leader) serving on a team executing the full range of Incident Management Assistance Team - Planning Section responsibilities for open and active disasters in Region Five. When deployed, the Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Planning Unit Leader) Typical assignments include: Facilitating the Planning processes and/or leveraging 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 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, the Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Planning Unit Leader) Typical assignments include: 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. This position will be hired into a temporary 2-year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval. Requirements Conditions of Employment To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for Public Trust - Moderate Risk as a condition of placement into this position. This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information). For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs please visit OPM Investigations. Please ensure you meet the qualification requirements described below and that you clearly describe how your experience meets these requirements within your resume. Conditions of Employment You must be a U.S. citizen to be considered for this position. You must successfully pass a background investigation. Selective Service registration required. You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government travel card Travel will be required. You may be required to be on a 24 hour on-call work schedule during emergency response periods. Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements. Qualifications All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. To qualify for thisSupervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Planning Unit Leader) position at the IT-03 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the IT-02 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following: Supporting emergency management planning programs by identifying, preparing, and/or implementing planning processes; Analyzing emergency management planning program policies, guidelines, or processes to support disaster field operations at the Federal, State, or local level; and Collaborating with a variety of stakeholders in the delivery of the emergency management programs to develop planning products. Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application: Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your experience. Are you qualifying based on your work experience? Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the occupational series, grade level, and dates in which you held each grade level. Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE)? To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found