Emergency Management Specialist - Washington, United States - General Services Administration

Description

Summary

As an Emergency Management Specialist, you'll be responsible for providing assistance in supporting comprehensive agency wide crisis management, continuity of operations (COOP), and emergency/ disaster management policies and plans.

Location of position: General Services Administration, Office of Mission Assurance, Washington, DC & Philadephia, PA

We are currently filling one vacancy per location, but additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement as needed.

Duties

Duties at the GS-11 Grade Level:

• Provides technical guidance in drafting and reviewing emergency plans, processes and procedures, to include emergency/disaster plans, Continuity of Operations Program (COOP) Plan and other related contingency programs. Prepares and carries out a number of staff assignments related to development and maintenance of an effective COOP.
• Provides input for logistics plans and operations as well as the development and implementation of logistics processes and conducts exercises in emergency / disaster after action reviews and lessons learned sessions.
• Respond to disasters, may serve as a team member, with responsibility for ensuring successful accomplishment of duties by in support of the team.
• Monitors various government and private sector systems to gather and disseminate emergency information relating to the occurrence, magnitude, and impact of actual or potential emergencies.

Duties at the GS-12 Grade Level:

• Provides technical guidance in drafting and reviewing emergency plans, processes and procedures, to include emergency/disaster plans, Continuity of Operations Program (COOP) Plan and other related contingency programs. Prepares and carries out a number of staff assignments related to development and maintenance of an effective COOP.
• Provides input for logistics plans and operations as well as the development and implementation of logistics processes and conducts exercises in emergency / disaster after action reviews and lessons learned sessions.
• When responding to disasters, may serve as a team member, with responsibility for ensuring successful accomplishment of duties by in support of the team.
• Monitors various government and private sector systems to gather and disseminate emergency information relating to the occurrence, magnitude, and impact of actual or potential emergencies.

This position has job functions that must be executed within a specific geographic location. The official duty station is a federal facility, leased space, or an alternative worksite (typically the employee's home). Positions include routine telework and remote work arrangements that are geographically specific to: Philadelphia, PA & Washington, DC.