Summary
The ideal candidate will have disaster recovery experience, and be a planning professional with experience in local, state, or federal government in fields of community development, urban planning, inter-agency coordination, and capacity building.
Duties
What will I do in this position if hired?
In this Community Planner position, you will work within the Interagency Recovery Coordination (IRC) Branch within the Region 3 Recovery Division. The professional in this position will perform emergency management recovery work, including serving as the Community Assistance (CA) Recovery Support Function (RSF) Regional Coordinator.
Typical assignments include (but not limited too):
- Providing technical support, training, and advice to federal, state, tribal, and local representatives related to Community Assistance (CA), implementation of the National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF), and development of Recovery plans.
- Coordinating community-based pre- and post-disaster recovery planning and capacity building support among recovery partners and providers such as other federal agencies; state, tribal and local government officials and non-government CA RSF partners.
- Developing and maintaining partnerships, agreements, and relationships with key federal agencies, organizations, and partners that may have equities in supporting and implementing CA initiatives/efforts after disasters.
- Managing CA at a regional level, in collaboration with and under the guidance of regional IRC leadership, maintaining ongoing communications with partners and implementing a work plan to build recovery capability and planning products.
- Interfacing with mitigation to use the mitigation planning process to implement recovery, and vice versa, before and after disasters. Ensure mitigation and sustainability principles are represented throughout CA activities.
- Participating in regional recovery operations during a crisis, incident, or disaster.
- During disaster events, advising and supporting the Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) and Federal Disaster Recovery Officer (FDRO) on the need for focused disaster recovery technical assistance for the communities affected or for coordination support among interagency and non-governmental partners for the CA RSF.
- During disaster events, coordinating and/or supervising other CA specialists/staff and/or advisors deemed necessary for mission operations.
- Coordinating/preparing and/or developing a variety of state and community-level profiles, capturing a holistic view of community's pre-disaster impact, inclusive of regional and State/Tribal guidance, input and suggestions.
- Preparing and/or developing a variety of reports on disaster recovery activities.
- Collecting compiling, and reporting/briefing on statewide and localized disaster impact, vulnerability, and capacity information utilizing the Community Analysis Tool (CAT), as well as other data sources to ensure a holistic and data-informed approach to Community Analysis in the region.
- Providing briefings, trainings, workshops, and/or presentations to and support other outreach/coordination activities with both internal and external partners.
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. Appointments to CORE positions are typically between two years and 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 three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.
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
All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
Basic Requirements
Degree: community planning; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that included at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance.
Note: Applicants with degrees in related fields, such as those listed above, who do not have the 12 semester hours of specified course work must have had at least 1 year of work experience in community planning acquired under the supervision and guidance of a community planner.
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Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in one of the above disciplines, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the above disciplines of which at least 12 semester hours were in the planning process, and socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
In addition to the Basic Requirements listed above, you must meet the following Requirements to be considered qualified for this position:
To qualify for this Community Planner position at the IC-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the IC-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 government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following:
Leading the delivery of Disaster Recovery programs; including identifying priorities, monitoring and tracking progress, outlining strategies, reviewing outcomes, and the development of best practices or lessons learned;Providing planning and technical guidance to states, tribes, and local communities regarding the administration of disaster recovery activities; and,Researching, analyzing, briefing on, and developing successful resolutions for recovery operations that were implemented without little guidance.
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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