Summary
In this position, you'll serve as an Emergency Management Specialist (Geospatial) within FEMA Region 9, National Preparedness Division located in Oakland, CA. The ideal candidate for this role will have experience creating GIS products, developing and maintaining web-based viewers and dashboards, and scripting skills to enable automatically updated products. Additionally, experience in a leadership or project management capacity for a team of GIS specialists and/or data analysts is desired.
Duties
What will I do in this position if hired?
In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist (Geospatial), Regional Geospatial Coordinator within Region 9 in Oakland, CA. Typical assignments include:
- Analyzing complex datasets using knowledge of, and experience with, remote sensing, cartographic and geospatial production techniques and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including geospatial software products with various geospatial modeling programs.
- Providing written and oral reports to senior officials and partners on the results of analysis in order to inform decision making.
- Providing near real time situational awareness and analysis by compiling, reconciling, and correlating data from a variety of sources with different requirements and formats where data must be carefully cross-checked, analyzed, and interpreted to ensure accuracy.
- Collaborating and fostering of relationships between federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, nongovernmental organizations, and private sector, and their response mechanisms, structures, and authorities to better correlate the geospatial implications of disasters, prevent duplication of effort, leverage geospatial capabilities across departments and agencies, and promote information sharing.
- Serving as a mentor and point of coordination on critical and complex geospatial products that require frequent coordination with internal and external working groups, providing project direction to team members, prioritizing analysis to maintain near real time situational awareness, and incorporating a wide range of stakeholder concerns.
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.
Requirements
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 and qualification requirements must be met within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.
To qualify for this position at the GS-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 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 or Private Sector and must demonstrate all of the following:
- Analyzing datasets utilizing geospatial production techniques and Geographic Information Systems (GIS); and,
- Providing critical technical GIS program development, implementation and operational support to senior agency leadership and key representatives of external stakeholders; and,
- Directing the activities of skilled technical and analytical project teams responsible for developing solutions to complex analytical problems.
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.
- Please limit your resume to five pages. If more than five pages are submitted, only the first five pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications.
- 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 \"not qualified.\"
- 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.
- For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards .
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