Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Operations)

Full Job Description

About the Position: Serves as Supervisor for the U.S. Army, Alaska Emergency Operations Center, providing technical and administrative direction to assigned personnel.

Provides guidance and direction to U.S. Army, Alaska staff for all actions applicable to the Emergency Operations facility.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Reinstatement Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

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).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

GS-11 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes assisting in managing components of emergency management program(s) utilizing guidance to coordinate preparedness and/or response to various manmade and natural disasters; to include radiological, chemical, and/or nuclear emergency response.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).

OR Education: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-09).

GS-12 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes managing components of emergency management program(s) utilizing guidance to coordinate preparedness and/or response to various manmade and natural disasters; to include radiological, chemical, and/or nuclear emergency response.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For the GS-12, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Major Duties:

• This is a developmental position; duties listed below will be performed in a developmental capacity at the GS-11 grade level. At the full performance, GS-12, the incumbent will:
• Serves as the single point of contact at all times, for all Emergency Action (EA) directives for defense readiness posture changes, actual direction of forces outlined in Emergency Actions Program annexes and all applicable DA directives and tables.
• Interfaces with State emergency services and Federal Disaster management agencies to manage contingency operations involving Army forces in Alaska.
• Develop and control operational reporting procedures in response to requirements for operational information from Alaska.
• Conduct exercises/tests for command center personnel to ensure standardized operations and maintains assigned personnel at optimum readiness to respond to any situation