Supervisory Public Affairs Specialist

Summary

In this position you will work as a member of the Office of External Affairs, Intergovernmental Affairs Division. The ideal candidate has strong experience supervising staff, a strong record of leading teams, is able to motivate and mentor their team, managing day-to-day operations, advising senior leaders and representing an organization in a professional environment.

Duties

What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as a Supervisory Public Affairs Specialist responsible for providing policy, procedural, technical and managerial advice for the development of a comprehensive Intergovernmental Affairs program on sensitive and high interest matters relating to Agency programs, policies and objectives. Typical assignments include: Supervising personnel and day-to-day branch operations, including assigning and reviewing work, setting performance expectations, providing feedback, approving leave, resolving informal complaints, and ensuring staff are trained and compliant with applicable requirements. Providing expert intergovernmental affairs guidance to support FEMA's coordination with state, local, tribal, and territorial officials and stakeholder organizations on FEMA programs, policies, services, and procedures. Developing and supporting crisis communications strategies, protocols, and materials for use during disaster and emergency management planning, response, recovery, and mitigation activities. Representing FEMA and the Intergovernmental Affairs Division in meetings, briefings, conferences, and stakeholder engagements, including explaining FEMA policies and addressing sensitive or high-interest issues. Preparing and reviewing briefings, advisories, policy materials, correspondence, and background information for senior FEMA officials, including support for conferences, interdepartmental meetings, and Congressional testimony preparation. 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-14 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 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, mentoring, or supervising personnel and/or teams AND, Supervising the implementation and development of emergency preparedness communications program activities for a team or working group AND, Establishing timelines to align with communications or engagement products, policies or objectives and providing feedback to stakeholders AND, Preparing and reviewing intergovernmental policy documents, directives, decision memoranda for emergency preparedness planning to communicate both internally and externally. 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/DAE employee? 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 "qualifications" section of this announcement.