Deputy Administrator - United States Fire Administration
Emmitsburg, MD
Employer: | FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency |
Job Type: | Full Time |
Description | |
Summary This Senior Executive Service position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), United States Fire Administration, in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The incumbent serves as the principal advisor to the Fire Administrator, or in his/her absence, to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), regarding the National Fire Problem, views and policies of the Nation's Fire Service and fire service stakeholder community. Duties In this position, the incumbent's principal responsibilities are to ensure financial, programmatic, statutory, and regulatory compliance in the Agency's policies, procedures, investments, and budget activities and provide executive direction and advice to subordinate staff and program officials agency-wide, with respect to USFA programs. Additional responsibilities include maintaining a close collaboration with the National Preparedness Directorate, as well as other FEMA/Disaster Readiness Support (DRS) components and other Federal departments and agencies, to synchronize first responder preparedness and training activities across the Federal government. The incumbent also participates in the FEMA's strategic and systems planning, budgeting, and long-term strategic planning initiatives, councils and working groups. Ensures USFA strategic plan, goals, and objectives are aligned with FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Specific responsibilities include:
Requirements As a basic requirement for entry into the SES, applicants must provide evidence of progressively responsible executive leadership and supervisory experience that is indicative of senior executive level management capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under Executive Core Qualifications and Technical Qualifications listed below. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the GS-14/15 grade level in the federal service or its equivalent in the private sector. As such, your resume should demonstrate that you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully fulfill responsibilities inherent in most SES positions such as:
EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): Unless you are currently serving under a Career Senior Executive Service (SES) appointment, eligible for reinstatement into the SES, or completed the SES Candidate Development Program (CDP) and approved by OPM, you must address the ECQs. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately and demonstrate the underlying competencies in the narrative. Examples should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities; the scope and complexity of the programs, activities, or services you managed; program accomplishments; policy initiatives undertaken; level of contacts; the sensitivity and criticality of the issues you addressed; and the results of your actions. You should use action-oriented leadership words to describe your experience and accomplishments and quantify your experience wherever possible to demonstrate your accomplishments (e.g., number of employees supervised; size of budget managed; amount of money saved, etc.). Applicants should use the Challenge, Context, Action and Results (CCAR) model below when responding to each ECQ:
ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE . This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. Leadership Competencies: Creativity & Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, Vision. ECQ 2 - LEADING PEOPLE . This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. Leadership Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others, Team Building. ECQ 3 - RESULTS DRIVEN . This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. Leadership Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Technical Credibility. ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN . This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Leadership Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Technology Management. ECQ 5 - BUILDING COALITIONS . This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Leadership Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy, Influencing/Negotiating. TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQ)s: In addition to the Executive Core Qualifications, all candidates must show evidence of the following TQs below in order to meet basic qualifications for this position. Please label and include your name on each page of the TQ Narrative. Please give examples and explain how often you used your skills, the complexity of the knowledge possessed, the level of people you interacted with, the sensitivity of the issues you handled managing a large public or private sector organization that administers complex, rules-based benefits or services, etc. It is recommended that you draft your TQs in a word document and then upload into the system. You must address each TQ separately and may not exceed 6 pages, using no smaller than 12-point font with one-inch margins. You are required to respond to all TQs. If you fail to do so, you will be rated as 'ineligible.' TQ 1. Knowledge of and experience addressing the national fire problem and the principal issues facing Federal, State and local government and volunteer entities, the fire service (including the career, volunteer and combination of fire services), the fire protection community, groups, and associations and the general public. TQ 2. Experience in a senior leadership position that demonstrates a thorough understanding of the changing roles of the fire service and fire protection community and knowledge of the specific aspects of national fire issues, including but not limited to, community risk reduction, emergency response, fire suppression, the impact of climate change on the wildfire problem, the need for data, research, and technology in the fire service, public education programs; fire service training and education; firefighter health and safety programs; emergency medical services; hazardous materials response; fire prevention and control programs; arson control programs; building codes, fire service organizations, administrations and managements. DO NOT COMBINE THE TQ AND ECQ NARRATIVES. Failure to meet the basic qualification requirement and address all Mandatory Technical and Executive Core Qualification factors in the required narratives will result in your application being disqualified. |