- Understanding FEMA's disaster declaration process;
- Collaborating with other FEMA and state declaration POCs to ensure the declaration process is well understood and implemented;
- Providing anaytical products to support decision making when Region 8 receives disaster declaration requests from States or Tribal Nations.
Program Analyst - Lakewood, United States - Department Of Homeland Security
Description
Summary
The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to interact with and provide analytical support to office leadership, staff, and key representatives of external stakeholders; skills in using common software to collect, organize, and display complex information in a professional manner; and specialized experience in collecting, analyzing, and reporting information concerning disaster damage, loss, and recovery efforts at the local, state, or Tribal Nation level.
Duties
What will I do in this position if hired?
In this Program Analyst position, you will serve as a Data Specialist within the Recovery Division of Region 8. This organization delivers disaster recovery assistance to the six States and 29 Tribes served by Region 8. One of the key functions of the Recovery Division is to support the ability of the regional office, and the States and Tribal Nations served by Region 8, to fulfill their roles and responsibilities in the process for requesting Stafford Act declarations of emergencies or major disasters. The Data Specialist dedicates most of their time to disaster declaration processing. This position has three primary areas of day-to-day task responsibility:
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. Appointments to CORE positions are typically between two years and four years in duration and may be renewed based upon workload needs and funding availability. 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.
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