Emergency Management Specialist (Incident Response)

Organizational Location: This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Facilities and Asset Management, Organizational Resources and Support Division, Emergency Management, Readiness, Logistics, and Support Branch, 1 vacancy located in Washington, DC. Additional selections may be made for other organizational divisions and/or units within the duty location(s) listed above.

This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Facilities and Asset Management (OFAM), Organizational Resources and Support Division (ORS), Emergency Management, Readiness, Logistics, and Support Branch (EMRLS), Mission Assurance Office (MAO). MAO supports the goals and principles outlined in CBP Emergency Management. With CBP personnel, facilities, and assets in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, four U.S. territories and 35 foreign countries, CBP has the potential to be severely impacted by countless natural hazards, biological and chemical hazards, technological hazards, and orchestrated attacks. Working within the strategic areas of continuity, emergency response, and test, training, and exercise, MAO works to enhance OFAM's readiness posture to effectively respond when an incident occurs. This position starts at a salary of $121,785.00 (GS-13, Step 1) to $158,322.00 (GS-13, Step 10). GS Salary: Visit this link to view the locality pay tables by geographic area. If you do not see your geographic area listed, select the "Rest of United States" pay table. Some positions fall under a special pay rate depending on the series, grade level and location of the position. Please visit this link to view special pay rate charts. Typical work assignments include: Serving as an emergency management specialist for accomplishing Emergency Preparedness Initiatives, to include Emergency Preparedness/Response, Continuity of Operations, Incident Response, and Risk Management. Working closely with the Mission Assurance Officer, with the support from all levels of government, to include Federal, State, Local, Territories, and Tribal, in preventing, protecting, preparing for, responding to, recovering from, and mitigating crises, disasters, hazards, humanitarian emergencies, or similar. Leading complex projects and defining critical quality factors and process improvements on key initiatives such as preparedness and response, training, and exercises, activation and mobilization of resources, ongoing emergency and command operations, response and recovery operations, continuity planning and operations, communications, logistics, hazard risk assessment, hazard effects, hazard classification, and collaborating with stakeholders and partners. Complying with and following emergency management-related directives, regulations, policies, civil rights laws, standards, and guidance (e.g., National Security Strategy, Presidential Policy Directives, Homeland Security Presidential Directives, National Mitigation Framework, National Incident Management System, National Response Framework, and National Disaster Recovery Framework). Assessing, inspecting, or evaluating emergency management processes, plans, standard operating procedures, or guidance for compliance with established emergency management directives, regulations, policies, civil rights laws, standards, and guidance.

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this position Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with Selective Service Primary U.S. residency for at least three of the last five years (additional details below) All pre-employment processes will be conducted in English You may be required to pass a background investigation CBP follows the DHS Drug-Free Workplace Plan for drug testing procedures As an employee of CBP, you will be joining a workforce that is dedicated to accomplishing our mission while maintaining the trust of our Nation by strictly adhering to all government ethics standards. Your conduct will be subject to the ethics rules applicable to all Executive Branch employees, and to CBP employees specifically, as well as the criminal conflict of interest statutes. Once you enter on duty, these rules include obtaining approval for outside employment or business activity, to ensure such employment or business activity is not prohibited and does not interfere or conflict with performance of your official duties. Please review further details via the following link. DHS uses E-Verify, an internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify including your rights and responsibilities. Bargaining Unit: This position is not covered under the bargaining unit. This vacancy has a local commuting area requirement, as defined below: The area surrounding the duty station by which people reasonably travel back and forth from home to work; Or The employee's permanent duty station is located within the reasonable travel area surrounding the duty station of this vacancy; Or if applicable For employees who are detailed or temporarily promoted for more than 1 year to another duty location, the detailed or temporary duty location is considered to be the duty location of record for commuting area purposes. For employees detailed or temporarily promoted for less than one year, the permanent duty location is considered the duty location of record for commuting area purposes.

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