This position is located in Region Two in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The ideal candidate for this position will analyze major aspects of programs to improve their effectiveness, developing organizational or emergency management policies and program initiatives, advising senior officials on those programs, and managing personnel.
What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as the Deputy Director for the U.S. Virgin Islands Caribbean Area Division (USVI CAD). Typical assignments include: Managing the daily operations related to emergency management programs not limited to; planning, preparedness, resiliency, recovery, response, continuity, and mitigation. Providing project management along with various aspects of technical assistance in FEMA's preparedness, resilience, response and recovery programs focused upon efforts to ensure the Territory is better positioned for future events. Providing guidance and technical assistance to Internal and External Customers, such as Senior Territory Emergency Management Personnel concerning complex, unusual, or unprecedented Federal emergency management initiatives. Advising senior level officials on major components of emergency management programs. Providing technical advice and assistance on quality assistance and process improvement practices in relation to emergency management services to federal and territorial emergency management preparedness and response activities. 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.
kim.rogers@fema.dhs.gov 771-202-1262
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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