Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist

Summary

You will serve as a Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist for the Small Business Administration (SBA), Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience (ODR&R), Office of Field Operations and Disaster Recovery (FODR), Disaster Recovery Division in Washington, District of Columbia. This position serves as the Deputy Director in DRD and leads the agency-wide activities for disaster recovery, and implementation of the ODR&R resilience mission nationally and in the field.

Duties

As a Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Deputy Director) at the GS-0089-15, some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Serving as a Deputy Director in ODR&R, providing leadership, guidance, and direction for policy issues, operational issues, and developing strategy; and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to promulgate more positive recovery outcomes, resilient recovery results, and more positive customer experiences.
• Developing plans and recommending policies regarding federal support for state, local, tribal, and territorial recovery efforts.
• Directing, coordinating, and overseeing work through subordinate team members.
• Leading and/or assisting in the development of federal support for state, local, territorial, and tribal recovery efforts, performing unusually difficult assignments that require occupational expertise and judgment to support particularly complex program activities on a continuous and frequent basis.
• Providing expertise in areas related to planning for the health and social service impacts of emergencies and disasters and federal coordination of support for state, local, tribal, and territorial recovery efforts.
• Participating in interagency committees to advance pre- and post-disaster State, local, tribal, and territorial recovery efforts, including disaster-related impacts to health and social services.
• Working with senior management to support the effective and efficient DR&R-wide and SBA-wide recovery efforts to all manner of disasters and emergencies impacting health and social services, promoting the integration of federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial efforts following disasters.
• Maintaining liaison with medical, scientific, health policy, and research communities to exchange information and ideas regarding new and emerging research, technologies, and trends and on issues related to supporting incident management and domestic readiness, response, and recovery operations, and to advance the field of disaster recovery.

Requirements/Conditions of Employment

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government travel credit card.
• Favorable background investigation and credit check are required.
• A one-year supervisory probationary period may be required.
• You may be required to complete a one-year probationary period.
• This is not a bargaining unit position.

Qualifications

Experience:
To receive credit, you must indicate the month and year as well as the average hours worked per week for each employer. Average work hours must be stated on the resume to quantify each period of work experience or that experience will not be credited toward meeting the specialized experience requirement.
You must address the specific specialized experience required for each grade level of this position on your resume or application or you will be rated "Ineligible" for that grade level.

GS-15: To qualify you must have at least 1 full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the GS-14 level obtained in either the private or public sector that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skill, and ability to perform successfully in this position. In addition, this Specialized Experience must demonstrate ALL the following:

• Experience managing disaster recovery programs, including planning, execution, and performance evaluation, and
• Supervising employees in disaster recovery and resilience programs, policy development, or operational activities, including task assignment, performance evaluation, and staff development, and
• Collaborating and aligning key stakeholders to a shared purpose of supporting disaster recovery and resilience, with local, state, federal, non-profit, or private industry, and
• Leading the design and implementation of change management strategies, including conducting analyses, assessing impacts, and driving measurable improvements in organizational operations or program delivery.

Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on OPM's Qualifications website:

Emergency Management Series 0089 (opm.gov)

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $165,761.00 - $191,900.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Weekends as needed

Work Location: In person

Salary : $165,761 - $191,900