Description

Please refer to the USA Jobs announcement for complete details:  https://www.usajobs.gov/job/811710500?fromemail=true

This Senior Executive Service position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Office of Response and Recovery.

The position serves as the Assistant Administrator for the Response Directorate, responsible for the executive leadership and managerial direction for the full scope of activities in overseeing all operations and staff functions of the Directorate.

The incumbent is responsible for providing executive leadership for, and overseeing, all operations and functions - operational, planning, readiness, programmatic, policy, and administrative of the Response Directorate in support of the Agency's mission. This is inclusive of the capabilities, processes, and leadership to fulfill FEMA's lifesaving and life-sustaining missions during a disaster including the National Urban Search and Rescue System, Mobile Emergency Response Support (MERS), and multiple operations centers. It is also inclusive of managing the relationships across the agency and the interagency to ensure unity of effort across the whole of government including the National Response Coordination Center, Deliberate and Crisis Planning, and special consequence management teams. Finally, it is inclusive of specialized capabilities to inform operators and leaders at the Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial level of critical information to shape approach and decision-making during a disaster including the Office of Emerging Threats, Disaster Emergency Communications, and the Response Geospatial office.

In addition to those operational requirements, the duties of the incumbent are inclusive of strategic planning, policy development, budget preparation and execution, procurement and contracting processes, personnel management, and reports and briefings to Congress as required. Recommendations made by the incumbent include resources to be expended, timing of major events, priority of projects and plans, and projects that should be initiated, suspended, or postponed. The incumbent is responsible for formulating strategic program plans which assess policy/program feasibility and include realistic short- and long-term goals and objectives to address current and future threats.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment
You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
You may be required to undergo periodic drug testing.
You must be able to obtain/maintain a Top-Secret w/SCI security clearance.
Selectee will be required to complete form OGE-278, Executive Personnel Financial Disclosure Form.
You will serve a one-year probationary period unless you previously completed the probationary period in the SES.
You must submit to a pre-employment drug test.
Qualifications
As a basic requirement for entry into the SES, applicants must provide evidence of progressively responsible executive leadership and supervisory experience that is indicative of senior executive level management capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under Executive Core Qualifications and Technical Qualifications listed below. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the GS-14/15 grade level in the federal service or its equivalent in the private sector. As such, your resume should demonstrate that you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully fulfill responsibilities inherent in most SES positions such as:

Directing the work of an organizational unit;
Ensuring the success of one or more specific major programs or projects;
Monitoring progress toward strategic organizational goals, evaluating organizational performance and taking action to improve performance;
Supervising the work of employees; and
Exercising important policymaking, policy determining, or other executive functions.
The application process used to recruit for this position is the RESUME-BASED Method.

The applicant must address the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) and Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) within their resume.
Resumes must not exceed five (5) pages.