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FEMA Reservist Referral (Various Positions)

Department of Homeland Security
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA's On-Call Disaster Workforce
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Summary

This announcement is only for candidates applying to be a FEMA Reservist through the FEMA Reservist Referral Program. It will serve as a repository of resumes that can be used to hire applicants through an employee referral, consistent with their level of skills and abilities.

USERRA now protects the full-time employment of FEMA reservists when they are deployed to disasters, emergencies, and critical trainings on behalf of FEMA. Review the FEMA Crew Act FAQs.

Overview

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Reviewing applications
Open & closing dates
05/01/2024 to 04/30/2025
Salary
$21.80 to - $91.95 per hour

Listed salary reflects the pay rates of all Reservist Positions, including Rest of US Locality. Pay is set based on the position and locality area.

Pay scale & grade
IM 00
Location
Many vacancies in the following location:
Location Negotiable After Selection
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
76% or greater - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Relocation expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Intermittent - Appointments are temporary, not to exceed 2 years. At the end of the appointment term, Reservists may be renewed, based upon operational needs.
Work schedule
Full-time - Reservists are intermittent, on-call employees. Deployment opportunities may vary.
Service
Excepted
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
Supervisory status
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Drug test
No
Position sensitivity and risk
Moderate Risk (MR)
Trust determination process
Financial disclosure
No
Bargaining unit status
No
Announcement number
ReservistReferral-2024
Control number
789629600

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Clarification from the agency

This announcement is being used as a repository. During the life of the announcement, hiring managers may request to receive resumes of interested candidates to fill vacant positions. We do not know whether any particular series/grade/location will have vacancies during the life of the announcement. If you are referred to a hiring manager for consideration, you may or may not be contacted.

Duties

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What will I do in this position if hired?

This resume repository may be used to fill one or more Reservist vacancies at any time without notification, in any series or pay band. Reservist employees are members of FEMA's on-call disaster workforce and respond to specific disasters, emergencies, or projects under the authority of the Stafford Act.

As a Reservist Employee, your role is to support response or recovery efforts. Reservists are intermittent, on-call employees. Please note that this is not a full-time position, and you only are paid when deployed. Deployment frequency and length varies based on disaster response need. Due to the irregular nature of disasters, Reservist employees are not guaranteed regular recurring hours, deployments, or renewal of employment.

Reservist job opportunities at FEMA may include positions in areas such as:

  • Accountable Property/Ordering
  • Administration/Office Support
  • Civil Rights/Conflict Resolution
  • Community Outreach
  • Program Management
  • Customer Service
  • Damage Inspection
  • Data Analytics
  • Disability Inclusion
  • Education/Training
  • Environmental
  • Finance/Economics
  • GIS Technology
  • Hazard Mitigation
  • Human Resources
  • Information Technology
  • Leadership
  • Media/Public Relations
  • Planning/Operations
  • Public Administration/Safety
  • Recovery
  • Security
  • Telecommunications/Transportation
  • Warehouse/Logistics/Facilities Management


What can I expect after applying to this Reservist Referral announcement?

  • Your application will be placed into a pool of individuals for evaluation and referral to hiring managers for non-competitive hiring.
  • You may be contacted by interested selecting officials and asked to interview.
  • You may update your application at any time until the closing date of the announcement.
  • Applications will expire after six months.


What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission to help people before, during and after disasters; so, 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.

The Civilian Reservist Emergency Workforce (CREW) Act protects the job rights of FEMA Reservists while they are deployed to disasters, emergencies, and critical trainings by including FEMA Reservists under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployments Rights Act (USERRA). This means that if you hold another job, you are able to deploy as a FEMA reservist and your job will be protected. It also protects you against penalization, discrimination, or loss of employee benefits as a result of your deployments to disasters, emergencies, and critical trainings. For more information, please visit FEMA.gov/careers or review the USERRA Resources from the Department of Labor.

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Conditions of employment

To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for Public Trust - Moderate Risk or Public Trust - High Risk (depending on the position offered) as a condition of placement into this position. This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information). For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs please visit OPM Investigations.

Conditions of Employment:
  1. You must be a U.S. citizen to be considered for this position.
  2. You must successfully pass a background investigation.
  3. Travel will be required.
  4. You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
  5. Selective service registration is required for males born after 12/31/59.
  6. Please review "Other Information" section for additional key requirements.
This position is temporary and intermittent, and you may be deployed to work during disaster declarations.
  • You will be paid only during times of deployment or when attending critical trainings.
  • You will be paid sick leave and earn one hour of sick leave for every 20 hours in a pay status, up to four hours each pay period.
  • You will be eligible to enroll in Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) within 60 days of check-in to support a disaster. Enrollment in FEHB is terminated after 365 cumulative days in non-pay status.
  • You will be eligible for the Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program (FEDVIP), when you are deployed to support a disaster and expected to work 130 hours or more per month for at least 90 consecutive days.

Qualifications

To be considered for a position, you must meet the specialized experience qualifications and/or educational requirements for the position. The scope and complexity of qualifications will vary according to the position grade level and series.

In addition to the specialized experience gained in your field, your resume you should also demonstrate experience, such as:

  • Customer Service: Building effective partnerships and collaborative working relationships with others.
  • Communication: Conveying messaging, either verbally or in writing.
  • Technology: Computer or mobile technology literacy; including proficient use of software applications such as Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, or Excel.

Examples of qualifying experience may include:
Accountable Property/Ordering Coordinating contract data, processing funding requests for purchases, managing and tracking accountable property.
Administration/Office Support Creating reports and presentations, scheduling, sending written communications, managing records.
Civil Rights/Conflict Resolution Conflict coaching, mediation, group facilitation, utilizing civil rights laws and regulations.
Community Outreach Delivering community programs, identifying and communicating community recovery needs, coordinating with varying types of government on recovery efforts.
Program Management Supporting or managing programs or projects, assessing program effectiveness, identifying and resolving issues, establishing project timelines.
Customer Service Communicating with customers, coordinating customer requests, responding to inquiries, using electronic software for reporting.
Damage Inspection Inspecting and assessing damaged infrastructures, collecting, and analyzing documentation regarding damage to infrastructures.
Data Analytics Collecting and analyzing data, generating data-driven electronic reports, providing guidance based on data analysis.
Disability Inclusion Applying laws and policies to support disability-related emergency management programs.
Education/Training Conducting training needs assessments, developing course materials, providing training, assessing training.
Environmental Applying Environmental and/or Historic Preservation laws, executive orders, regulations, agreements, policies, and procedures, floodplain management, grant writing.
Finance/Economics Providing financial analysis or advice in areas such as compliance, financial procedure, spend plan data, budgets, accounting records, etc.
GIS Technology Utilizing geographic information systems (GIS) to collect, review and analyze data, applying GIS technology to solve problems.
Hazard Mitigation Applying floodplain management theories and practices and processing floodplain permits, advising on related insurance policies.
Human Resources Performing tasks related to human resources program areas such as staffing, personnel actions, payroll, performance management, employee relations, and benefits.
Information Technology Providing solutions to customer requests for assistance, resolving, and troubleshooting hardware or software problems.
Leadership Leading, directing, and coordinating the work of a diverse workforce across varying programs.
Media/Public Relations Creating, editing and publishing news releases, social media and digital communications.
Planning/Operations Applying Emergency Management planning principals towards developing plans and managing projects.
Public Administration/Safety Advising on safety and occupational health activities; provide training activities in safety standards, and guidelines.
Recovery Coordinating with communities on recovery efforts including engineering, planning, architecture, social services, housing, infrastructure, environmental, historic preservation, archeology, economic development, natural resources, public administration.
Security Coordinating with law enforcement operatives to obtain security-related information; providing security-related information to stakeholders.
Telecommunications/Transportation Usage and inspection of telecommunications systems, satellite communications, advising on transportation programs.
Warehouse/Logistics/Facilities Management Placing orders, tracking shipments, inventory management, identifying and establishing incident support facilities, coordinating logistical operations for manufactured housing.


In addition:

  • Minimum age of eighteen years of age is required.
  • All candidates must be a high school graduate or possess a GED.


Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application:

  • Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.
  • Please limit your resume to five pages. If more than five pages are submitted, only the first five pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications. Your full resume will be made available to the hiring manager if you are referred.
  • Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your experience.

Documenting your experience:

  • Qualifications are based on breadth/level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, you must provide your job title (including series and grade if a federal position), start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), and the number of hours worked per week if part time.
  • Current or former FEMA Reservists/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE): To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of each deployment, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment.
  • Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found "not qualified". Overstating your qualifications and/or experience in your application materials or application questionnaire may result in your removal from consideration.
  • 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 provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

Many Reservist positions at FEMA allow candidates to substitute education in lieu of experience, and some positions have educational requirements.

If you are qualifying based upon education, you must submit a copy of your college transcript (unofficial is acceptable) with your application package. If you are selected for a position which requires a college degree to meet minimum qualification requirements, you will be required to submit your official college transcript(s) at time of selection.

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.

Additional information

  • If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you will be required to complete an Optional Form 306, Declaration for Federal Employment, and to sign and certify the accuracy of all information in your application, prior to entry on duty. False statements on any part of the application may result in withdrawal of offer of employment, dismissal after beginning work, fine, or imprisonment.
  • The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act prohibits the Department of Homeland Security and its Components from requesting an applicant's criminal history record before that individual receives a conditional offer of employment. In accordance with 5 U.S. Code § 9202(c) and 5 C.F.R § 920.201 certain positions are exempt from the provisions of the Fair Chance to Compete Act. Applicants who believe they have been subjected to a violation of the Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act, may submit a written complaint to FEMA-Misconduct@fema.dhs.gov.
  • DHS uses E-verify, an internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities.
  • Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for DHS to share your application with other in DHS for similar positions.
  • All candidates must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time. Deployments may include working in excess of eight hours a day, or in excess of 40 hours in a given week, including weekends and holidays, and under stressful, physically demanding, and austere conditions. When activated and deployed, you serve in a federal travel status and are entitled to lodging, transportation and per diem reimbursements for authorized expenses in accordance with federal travel regulations.
  • All candidates must be available to deploy at all times during the term of this appointment unless pre-approved through authorized Reservist leave. Reservists may take up to 90 days of unpaid Reservist Leave per year.
  • FEMA Reservist employees must maintain an address of primary residency (which will serve as the official duty station of the employee), in a Stafford Act "State", as defined by Section 102(4) of the Stafford Act.
  • If selected for this position, you will be required to complete FEMA's onboarding program and a subsequent orientation program. Additional orientation information will be provided post selection.
  • The salary range indicated in this announcement reflects the minimum locality pay up to maximum locality pay for the Rest of U.S. locality pay area. The salary range will be adjusted for the selected duty location and associated OPM locality pay area. General Schedule locality pay tables and locality adjustment information may be found under the OPM Salaries & Wages website.
  • Selectees for a Reservist position may be eligible for a signing bonus.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

A member of our Human Resources team will review your application to determine which cadre(s) best align with your experience. If your experience aligns with any of our cadres, your application package will be forwarded to the hiring manager(s) for consideration.

We recommend that you preview the online questions for this announcement before you start the application process. To preview, please review: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12403912.

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