Supervisory Public Affairs Specialist

The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position at the GS-15 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-14 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: Directing, overseeing, or executing operations under Emergency Support Function 15 (External Affairs) or an equivalent comprehensive emergency communications framework during joint field operations, major incidents, or national-level training exercises; and Developing and executing strategic operational supplements to the National Response Framework (or equivalent comprehensive disaster response plans) encompassing Public Affairs, Congressional Affairs, Intergovernmental Affairs, or Private Sector coordination; and Leading strategic communication, mitigation information, or public safety outreach programs focused on all-hazards preparedness, mitigation, response, or recovery efforts; and Serving as a senior advisor to incident leadership during active disasters, managing the deployment of personnel to high-pressure, physically austere, or operationally challenging field environments, and delivering real-time strategic counsel under emergency conditions.

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 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. For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards. Are you qualifying under Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP/CTAP) Eligibles?

If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not ICTAP/CTAP eligible. View information about ICTAP/CTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website. In addition, you must submit the supporting documents listed under the required documents section of this announcement. Well-Qualified is defined as those applicants who are rated with a minimum score of 80.00 for this position.

What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will provide communications strategy, message coordination, analyses and guidance, relationship-building and decision-making support on Agency policies, plans, programs, key initiatives and actions that affect stakeholders.

Typical assignments include: Developing, overseeing, and maintaining operational readiness for ESF 15 (External Affairs) within the region and field offices, serving as the senior advisor for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. Designing the Public Affairs, Congressional, Intergovernmental, Private Sector, and Outreach sections of the Regional Supplement to the National Response Framework, and participating in training exercises to test and refine these protocols.

Planning and leading regional communication campaigns targeted at critical preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts. Executing mandatory emergency response tasks, which requires remaining on call around the clock and deploying directly to physically challenging disaster environments with minimal notice. 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.