Emergency Management Specialist (Geospatial)

Duties
What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Emergency Management Specialist (Geospatial) position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist (Geospatial) and frequent deployments to the field in support of the regional Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT).

Typical assignments include:

Delivering on-site geospatial support to Incident Management Assistance Teams (IMAT) and field operations, enhancing situational awareness.
Developing and maintaining geospatial products and response maps to support field operations.
Fulfilling disaster specific GIS Requests to include ArcGIS Online web application.
Providing immediate geospatial analysis and mapping during emergency response operations to aid in decision-making and resource deployment.
Ensuring timely and accurate updates to situational maps and dashboards, reflecting the latest field data and disaster impacts.
Supporting disaster related work by improving disaster maps by adding/updating layers, refining data layers, and assisting.
Facilitating effective communication and data sharing among various agencies, State and Tribal partners, and other stakeholders.
Engaging with the GIS community to incorporate diverse stakeholder concerns and ensure cohesive disaster response efforts.
Developing and maintaining geospatial tools, applications, and databases, including SharePoint, map journals, and geo­ portals.
Performing data quality assurance and management on SQL servers to ensure reliable and accurate geospatial data.
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.

This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

This position will be hired into a temporary 4-years, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA’s ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.