This position is located in Region 6, Mitigation Division. The ideal candidate for this position will have experience interpreting and executing NFIP regulations and utilizing NFIP technical resources, GIS, code enforcement. The incumbent will also have experience making public presentations and a strong understanding of how communities recover after a disaster in respect to flooding.
What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will be assisting local communities with floodplain management responsibilities, performing the administration of the National Flood Insurance Program to include tracking and answering questions. Educating a wide variety of audiences about building codes. Typical assignments include: Providing technical assistance to communities to implement their post-disaster SI/SD mission including training on administrative procedures and Substantial Damage Estimator (SDE) use. Monitoring, documenting, and providing technical assistance to communities to support their post-disaster permitting and inspection processes including outreach on improving building practices and stronger building codes. Conducting outreach and educational activities to communities reminding them of their commitment to floodplain management and the impacts of potential sanctions for not effectively administering programs established in locally-adopted regulations in a post-disaster environment. Promoting floodplain management activities in relation to emergency management directives, regulations, policies, laws, standards, and guidance (e.g., National Security Strategy, Presidential Policy Directives, Homeland Security Presidential Directives, National Mitigation Framework, National Incident Management System, National Response Framework, and National Disaster Recovery Framework). Leveraging disaster data by analyzing impacts to support and inform flood-resilient community recovery. 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.
No Educational Substitution: There is no educational substitution for this position, and you must meet the qualifications listed in the "requirements" section of this announcement.
Larry.giles@fema.dhs.gov 202-702-7298
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