- 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.
Emergency Management Specialist - Oakland, United States - Department Of Homeland Security
Description
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:
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.
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