Summary
The ideal candidate has experience supervising grants staff and overseeing multi-million-dollar Hazard Mitigation Assistance or other mitigation grant programs, including application review, award administration, recipient monitoring, amendments, and closeout. They can interpret grant laws, regulations, policies, and procedures; provide direction to staff and stakeholders; resolve complex grant issues; improve processes; and ensure compliance with financial, reporting, and program requirements.
Duties
What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as a Supervisory Grants Management Specialist in the Mitigation Division, Region 9, supporting Hazard Mitigation Assistance programs, including the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and non-disaster mitigation assistance programs. Typical duties include: - Supervising and leading a team of grants management specialists by assigning and reviewing work, setting priorities, monitoring progress, evaluating performance, identifying training needs, and supporting consistent, high-quality grants management operations. - Overseeing the administration of complex Hazard Mitigation Assistance grant awards throughout the grant life cycle, including application review, award processing, amendments, reimbursement review, monitoring, audit resolution, reporting, and closeout. - Reviewing and analyzing grant applications, award documents, financial reports, and recipient performance information to assess eligibility, compliance with Federal requirements, budget reasonableness, risk, and alignment with hazard mitigation program objectives and authoritative guidance. - Providing expert technical guidance to staff, recipients, and stakeholders on hazard mitigation assistance program policies, procedures, systems, internal controls, monitoring requirements, and the resolution of complex or unusual grant issues. - Leading program improvement and coordination activities by reviewing regional grant procedures, identifying process or compliance issues, recommending updates to guidance or internal controls, preparing briefings and reports, and coordinating with FEMA Headquarters, regional staff, and State, local, Tribal, and territorial 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.
Requirements
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 - High Risk 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. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office. Please ensure you meet the qualification requirements described below. Key Requirements: You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position. You must successfully pass a background investigation. Selective Service registration required. Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements. You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card. You must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time. Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.
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.
How you will be evaluated
We will review your resume and supporting documentation to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you meet the basic qualifications, your experience, education and training will be rated using a Subject Matter Expert - Structured Resume Review that is based on the following competencies needed to perform this job: Communication Customer Service Representing the Agency Teamwork & Collaboration Technical Proficiency Leadership Assigning, Monitoring, and Evaluating Work Accountability Decisiveness Flexibility Interpersonal Skills Problem Solving Resilience Human Resources Specialists and Subject Matter Experts will review your two-page resume (starting with your work experience) to determine your qualifications for the position based on the required competencies and specialized experience statements. In describing your experience, be clear and specific and include start and end dates for each position. We may not make assumptions regarding your experience. Based on the review of your resume for the specialized experience required for this position, you may be referred to hiring manager for consideration and may be called for an interview. If you meet the minimum qualifications, you will be placed in one of the following categories: Best Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrate high proficiency in all of the critical competencies, including all Selective Placement Factors (SPF), and appropriate Quality Ranking Factors (QRF) as determined by the job analysis. Well Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrates acceptable proficiency in all of the critical competencies, including all SPF's and appropriate QRFs as determined by the job analysis. Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrate basic proficiency in most of the critical competencies, including all SPFs and appropriate QRFs as determined by the job analysis. If you are best qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for consideration and may be contacted for an interview. We recommend that you preview the online questions for this announcement before you start the application process. https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13085136 Veterans: Qualified veterans who have a compensable service-connected disability of at least 10% are listed in the best-qualified category, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional at the GS-09 grade level, or higher. This position is not considered scientific/professional. Other 10-point preference eligibles and veterans with 5-point preference who meet the eligibility and qualification requirements are placed above non-preference eligibles within the category in which they qualify. View information on veterans' preference. Interview Requirement: Interviews may be required for this position. Failure to complete the interview may result in removal from further consideration.