Supervisory Environmental Protection Specialist

Summary

The ideal candidate is a senior-level environmental professional with experience conducting environmental and/or historic-preservation reviews. The candidate should have knowledge of a broad range of environmental and historic-preservation laws and executive orders and be able to independently evaluate highly complex projects, prepare technical documentation, and communicate technical information to partners.

Duties

What will I do in this position if hired? In this Supervisory Environmental Protection Specialist position, you will serve as a Supervisor and technical expert for Environmental and Historic Preservation (EHP) activities. Typical assignments include: Leading the development of highly complex project reviews, analyzing proposed actions, and determining the appropriate level of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation. Managing disaster and non-disaster environmental compliance reviews and facilitating resolutions to complex or unprecedented issues involving multiple stakeholders. Supervising EHP staff by directing work, providing administrative and technical oversight, observing performance, providing informal feedback, and conducting periodic formal evaluations. Serving as the primary point of contact for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program staff and collaborating with regulatory agencies to resolve issues and maintain continuity of work. Providing technical advice and recommendations on compliance with environmental and historic preservation laws and requirements, including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), Executive Order 11988, Floodplain Management, and Executive Order 11990, Protection of Wetlands. Conducting training and outreach for internal and external stakeholders and performing administrative and human resources management functions. 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.

Qualifications

All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. To qualify for this Supervisory Environmental Protection Specialist position at the IC-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the IC-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: Leading staff and managing work assignments to ensure timely, effective completion of compliance reviews; Applying environmental and historic preservation laws, regulations, and policies to evaluate complex projects and make compliance determinations; and Providing technical advice and developing procedures or guidance to ensure consistent implementation of environmental and historic preservation requirements. 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. 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 occupational series, grade level, 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. For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards

Education

No Educational Substitution: There is no educational substitution for this position, and you must meet the qualifications listed in the "requirements" section of this announcement.