This position is located in Washington, DC. The ideal candidate for this position will have experience with geospatial data and data architecture experience to assess, connect, and operationalize National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) datasets and represent FEMA in modernization working groups.
What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist (Risk Analyst). Typical assignments include: Serve as a technical expert in NFIP geospatial data management, assessing geospatial datasets holistically to evaluate data quality, structure, relationships, gaps, dependencies, and modernization opportunities.
Organize and implement geospatial database management processes, including data maintenance, data cleanup, standards development, guidance issuance, and data quality improvement across NFIP insurance and mapping datasets. Apply a geospatial data architecture perspective to connect, govern, and operationalize NFIP geospatial datasets across systems, programs, workflows, and modernization initiatives.
Lead cross-functional working groups, user groups, and project teams involving program, mapping, insurance, data, and IT stakeholders to achieve agreed-upon outcomes within cost, schedule, and scope. Coordinate and communicate project direction, status, risks, issues, and recommendations with supervisors, team leadership, technical teams, and government stakeholders, including representing FEMA in modernization-related working groups. 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.
DHS offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life, and long-term care insurance; retirement plan; Thrift Savings Plan [similar to a 401(k)]; Flexible Spending Account; Employee Assistance Program; personal leave days; and paid federal holidays. Other benefits may include flexible work schedules; tuition reimbursement; transportation subsidies; uniform allowance; health and wellness programs; and fitness centers.
DHS is committed to employee development and offers a variety of employee training and developmental opportunities. For more information, go to the DHS Careers website and select "Benefits." Disabled veteran leave will be available to any federal employee hired on or after November 5, 2016, who is a veteran with a service- connected disability rating of 30 percent or more.
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douglas.lewisjr@fema.dhs.gov · 202-808-4980
This position is with Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
The posted pay range is $121785 – $158322/yr.
Applications close on 2026-09-15.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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