The ideal candidate is an expert advisor, technical authority, and experienced project manager of complex and precedent-setting civil engineering projects, policy, and program issues related to flooding. The candidate will work to manage multimillion-dollar projects in conjunction with development of strategies and plans related to flood hazard and risk assessment for Agency-wide application.
What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as a Civil Engineer within the Federal Insurance Directorate. Typical assignments include: Serves as an advisor and technical authority on policy, program, and implementable planning issues within the field of civil engineering related to flood hazard and risk assessments. Planning and coordinating FEMA programs in unexplored areas where new technologies and scientific methods are needed to advance flood hazard and risk assessments. Managing and coordinating the efforts of technical personnel across various organizations conducting conceptual studies and analyses of flood hazard and risk assessment problems involving advanced technology and complex relations or programmatic issues. Serves as an agency leader of groups that conduct expert technical reviews or development of precedent-setting scientific studies, research, and analysis in areas such as coastal hazard systems, watershed flood analysis or flood control structures. Defends flood hazard and risk assessment policy before national organizations, government agencies, state and local governments, industry, academia, consumer organizations, Congress, and/or the scientific community. Serves as an authoritative expert on flood analysis and engineering on task forces, committees, or study groups charged with considering highly complex policy issues or problems related to flood hazard and risk assessments. 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.
Positive Education Requirement: This position has a positive education requirement, as outlined in the "requirements" section. You must submit a copy of your transcripts (unofficial are acceptable) with your online application. Once selected and prior to appointment, applicants must provide official college transcripts. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. For example, specific courses accepted for college-level credit by an accredited U.S. college or university, or foreign education evaluated by an organization recognized for accreditation by the Department of Education as education equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. college or university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. Visit the Department of Education's Recognition of Foreign Qualifications for more information.
douglas.lewisjr@fema.dhs.gov 202-808-4980
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