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Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Preparedness)

Federal Emergency Management Agency · Department of Homeland Security

Emergency Management Specialist

Salary
$117,284–$152,471/year
Grade
13
Work location
Telework eligible · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Schedule
Full-time
Posted
Oct 7, 2026
Apply by
Oct 21, 2026
Category
Emergency Management Specialist

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Summary

This position is located in Region Three / National Preparedness Division.The ideal candidate for this position will have a background planning, facilitating, supporting and implementing training plans,experience in classroom instruction and program development and management, as well as possess excellent customer service and leadership skills with experience in collaborating with several levels of government.

Duties

What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serving as the Regional Training Manager performing work that oversees all regional training and education requirements to meet agency and regional goals and objectives. Typical assignments include: Planning, developing, monitoring, evaluating, and managing all regional training and education requirements to include functional training at the regional, state, tribal, and local level, and the Region 3 employee development program. Planning, initiating, and coordinating innovative programs with secondary and post-secondary leaders to meet regional or national needs for constantly changing education requirements. Conducting research and needs assessments to identify courses to meet the changes of policy guidance, legislation, or agency emphasis. Exercising technical and administrative supervisory controls that are in keeping with a first level supervisory position. 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 Non Sensitive / Moderate 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. Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA): To be eligible for a VEOA appointment, the veteran must 1) be a preference eligible; or 2) be a veteran separated after 3 or more years of continuous active service performed under honorable conditions. In addition, you must submit the supporting documents listed under the required documents section of this announcement. (Note: Veteran's preference does not apply under Merit Promotion procedures. View VEOA information on Feds Hire Vets.) 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. Due weight will be given to performance appraisals and incentive awards in merit promotion selection decisions in accordance with 5 CFR 335.103(b)(3).

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 USA Hire Assessment 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 Customer Service Decisiveness Flexibility Interpersonal Skills Problem Solving Resilience Based on the review of your resume for the specialized experience required for this position and the results of the USA Hire Assessment, you may be referred to the hiring manager for consideration and may be called for an interview. We recommend that you review USA Hire Applicant Resource Center before you start the application process. CTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet eligibility criteria for CTAP; 2) be rated well-qualified for the position; and, 3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your CTAP eligibility (see "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. After FEMA completes its hiring, the resumes of the remaining candidates referred for selection consideration may be shared with other DHS Components. During the application process, you may choose to opt-in if you would like your name, application material, and assessment results to be shared. There is no guarantee of further consideration, and you can continue to explore other job opportunity announcements. We recommend that you preview the online questions for this announcement before you start the application process. https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13081885

About this listing

Federal Emergency Management Agency has 18 open listings on the site: all telework eligible. This one is telework eligible, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. See all Federal Emergency Management Agency listings, or read what fully remote and telework eligible mean.

Advertised pay is $117,284 to $152,471 a year. That covers GS-13 on the General Schedule, where pay also depends on step and locality; how GS pay works.

This announcement is open for 14 days, from Oct 7, 2026 to Oct 21, 2026. Among currently open Emergency Management Specialist postings at Federal Emergency Management Agency, the typical advertised window is about 9 days.

Who can apply: current competitive-service federal employees, federal employees eligible for career transition programs, veterans and 6 other groups. This announcement is not open to the general public. The announcement's "This job is open to" section has the exact eligibility rules.

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