Emergency Management Specialist (Preparedness)

Ideal candidate has experience developing emergency management doctrine and guidance, engaging whole community partners, conducting research, and using data analytics to identify trends and support decisions.

What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist within the National Preparedness Directorate. Typical assignments include: Conducting emergency planning activities and initiatives to develop tools, projects, and programs related to preparedness policies and strategies, including whole community doctrine, evaluations, assessments, and analysis of preparedness data to identify capability gaps, trends, and improvement opportunities. Communicating with counterparts, teammates, and supervisors to encourage understanding and acceptance of findings and recommendations; interpreting agency policies, guidance, and technical aspects of agency programs; and presenting data-driven findings to stakeholders in a clear and actionable manner. Collaborating with state, local, and tribal officials, regional partners, and whole community stakeholders to prioritize guidance for critical infrastructure protection and public safety and security, using quantitative and qualitative data to support planning, prioritization, and decision-making. Providing support and contributions to conferences, meetings, committees, and working groups that propose, defend, and/or critique continuity and emergency preparedness criteria on a regional level, including preparing analytical summaries, dashboards, metrics, and briefing materials to promote and maintain a proactive preparedness posture. Working collaboratively and effectively with teammates to achieve goals and objectives; engaging with whole community stakeholders to develop, build, and sustain emergency preparedness capabilities; and collecting, organizing, analyzing, and reporting program data to measure progress and inform continuous improvement. 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. Promotion Potential: Future promotions will be dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and administrative approval.