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The ideal candidate for this position will have strong leadership skills and the capability to manage complex projects and workloads while rapidly building their technical expertise. This position starts at a salary of $93,282 (GS-13). Apply for this exciting opportunity to become a member of the Region IV environmentalteam within FEMA.View common definitions of terms found in this announcement.
Major Duties
When disaster strikes, America looks to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Now FEMA looks to you. Join our team and use your talent to support Americans in their times of greatest need. FEMA prepares the nation for all hazards and manages Federal response and recovery efforts following any national incident. We foster innovation, reward performance and creativity, and provide challenges on a routine basis with a well-skilled, knowledgeable, high performance workforce. Please visit www.fema.gov for additional information.
EMERGENCY ASSIGNMENT: 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.
In this position, you will provide supervisory oversight at the regional level for a staff that performs mission critical work, including managing and coordinating Federal environmental planning and historic preservation compliance reviews and providing technical assistance to programs, recipients, and subrecipients implementing compliance requirements. Typical assignments include:
- Serving as expert level analyst and advisor capable of completing complex environmental compliance reviews and providing technical assistance to colleagues and internal and external stakeholders.
- Managing highly-complex projects and facilitating often unprecedented resolutions with multiple stakeholders.
- Completing non-disaster and disaster program environmental compliance reviews.
- Reviewing, drafting or finalizing agreement documents, standard operating procedures, policy, guidance, resources or tools, especially those related to streamlining Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation compliance reviews.
- Conducting training and outreach to internal and external stakeholders.
- Serving as the senior Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation leader for emergency response or recovery operations as needed.
- Supervising a team of Environmental Historic Preservation specialists and assigning and managing associated workloads.
Qualifications
Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The time-in-grade requirement must be met within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.The qualification requirements listed below must be met within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.
You qualify for this position at the GS-13 level (starting salary $93,282) if you possessthe following: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (GS-12) in the Federal Service. This experience may have been gained in the federal government, a state or local government, a non-profit organization, the private sector, or as a volunteer; however, your resume must clearly describe at least one year of specialized experience. Examples of specialized experience would typically include but are not limited to: Writing National Environmental Policy Act documents or Floodplain Management Executive Order 11988 documents (e.g. environmental assessments, environmental impact statements, full 8-Step analysis documents, etc.); or Conducting adverse effect consultations under either the National Historic Preservation Act (Section 106) or the Endangered Species Act (Section 7); or Managing or directing work with environmental compliance requirements on a presidentially declared disaster. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills, and provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.NOTE: Qualifications are based on breadth/level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, applicants must provide the exact dates of each period of employment (from MM/YY to MM/YY) and the number of hours worked per week if part time. As qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information, failure to provide this information may result in disqualification. Applicants are encouraged to use the USAJOBS Resume Builder to develop their federal resume. For a brief video on How to Create a Federal Resume, clickhere.Current or former FEMA Reservists/DAE employees: To accurately credit your experience for these intermittent positions, make sure to list the dates (from MM/YY to MM/YY) of each deployment, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment. Failure to provide this information may result in disqualification.The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
Pay Range
$93,282.00 - $121,264.00