Program Analyst

Duties
What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as a Program Analyst for FEMA Region 2, National Preparedness Division, Technical Hazards Branch. Typical assignments include:

Consulting with stakeholders to identify and document business and mission requirements that include the analysis of data requirements. Presenting analytic findings in briefings and reports to regional senior leadership, other Federal Agencies, state/territory emergency management officials, private sector and general public.
Formulating recommendations, data policies, procedures, or plans to solve problems or to interpret conditions. Preparing briefings, status updates, options papers, and decision memoranda for senior leadership to address problems and activities of a non-recurring nature that cannot be specifically defined or predicted in advance.
Providing senior management officials with relevant information required to plan for Federal response to an extensive range of national emergencies. As required, communicating and coordinating with other Federal, State, local, tribal, territorial, non-governmental organizations, and private sectors, and other groups to ensure an effective and comprehensive execution plan for a coordinated response to major event occurrences.
Coordinating with various FEMA entities to ensure completeness and accuracy of documents. Working closely with project managers and subject matter experts, to review database changes and updates to ensure consistent access to relevant data. Working with senior level managers on policy design, development, and implementation.
Fostering and maintaining professional work relationships both internally and externally and serving as liaison and coordinator with organizations, individuals, internal and external partners.

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.

Qualifications
Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

To qualify for this position at the GS-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following:

Performing emergency management work including managing, coordinating, and executing Federal emergency all-hazards preparedness activities.
Developing and analyzing guidelines to make recommendations and provide advice, assistance and creative solutions on matters for which guidance does not exist.
Managing Continuity and Devolution procedures and processes.
Integrating file management with devolution partners and analyzing, developing, and disseminating methods to improve the effectiveness and accuracy, adequacy and timeliness of information and systems to regional managers.
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 two pages. The USAJOBS database will not allow an applicant to submit an application that includes a resume over two pages.
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.
Are you qualifying based on your work experience?
Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the grade level, occupational series and dates in which you held each grade level.
Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/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 deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, 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."
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.