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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. Learn more about this agency05/01/2024 to 04/30/2025
$21.80 - $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.
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Many vacancies in the following location:
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76% or greater - You may be expected to travel for this position.
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Intermittent - Appointments are temporary, not to exceed 2 years. At the end of the appointment term, Reservists may be renewed, based upon operational needs.
Full-time - Reservists are intermittent, on-call employees. Deployment opportunities may vary.
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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.
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:
What can I expect after applying to this Reservist Referral announcement?
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.
FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflect the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people it serves. To learn about the ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit fema.gov.
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: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:
| 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:
Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application:
Documenting your experience:
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.
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.
Do not include any photos, personally identifying information (PII) (including birthday and social security numbers), or personal information such as age, gender, religious affiliation, medical history, etc.
It is your responsibility to verify that any information entered or uploaded is received and is accurate. Determining your eligibility and qualifications is dependent on the supporting documentation and information provided, which may impact your referral for further consideration. If a document is not legible, Human Resources will not be able to view it in your application. All application materials, including transcripts, must be in English.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
To apply for this position, you must complete the online application and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section above by 11:59pm (EST) on 04/30/2025.
If you are unable to apply online (e.g., experiencing documented system issues, you do not have access to the internet, etc.), you may be able to submit a paper application package. To do so, please contact the Human Resources Specialist listed in the Agency Contact Information prior to the close of this announcement.
An employee, job applicant, or an individual acting on behalf of the employee, may request a Reasonable Accommodation by emailing FEMA-Reasonable-Accommodation@fema.dhs.gov with "time sensitive" in the subject line.
To review the common definitions of terms found in this announcement, please visit the DHS Common Definitions page.
Note: One or more positions may be filled using this vacancy announcement. Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for DHS to share your application with others in DHS for similar positions.
If you are found qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for further consideration. The hiring manager will review the list of qualified candidates and may conduct interviews. Failure to complete an interview request may result in removal from consideration.
If you are selected, you will be notified by email with a tentative job offer. If you fail to respond, fail to meet the conditions of employment, or fail any other pre-employment requirements (such as the background investigation) we may rescind a tentative job offer.
For information on the federal employment application process, please visit the USA Jobs Help Center. Any Offers of employment made pursuant to this announcement will be consistent with all applicable authorities, including Presidential Memoranda, Executive Orders, interpretive U.S. Office of Personnel Management guidance and U.S. Office of Management and Budget plans and policies concerning hiring. These authorities are subject to change.
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/789629600. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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