What will I do in this position if hired?
In this Training and Exercise Program Specialist position, you will work as a Training and Exercise Program Specialist for Region 8.
Typical assignments include:
- Managing, planning, and conducting emergency management training courses and exercises.
- Monitoring state, local, and tribal policies, determine training needs, coordinate training and exercises, perform gap analysis, and assist with risk analysis.
- Facilitating delivery of training, as an extension of FEMA training programs; ensure training objectives are met and evaluate effectiveness of course execution.
- Developing, reviewing, and revising current and proposed training activities, available evaluation data, after action reports, or other information to determine effectiveness and adequacy of training.
- Planning, developing, monitoring, conducting, and evaluating emergency management and preparedness exercises.
- Assuming and carrying out specified emergency management assignments as required.
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. 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.
This position will be hired into a temporary 2-year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.
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.
Starting at $96,684 Per Year (IC 12)