Position Summary:
The incumbent of this position serves as the Assistant Administrator, Resilience Business Operations, Resilience, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Resilience includes several programs that provide risk information, planning and capacity building, federal insurance, and risk reduction investments, all aimed at building a more resilient nation. The incumbent provides executive leadership, oversight and supervision of core business operations that support the Resilience mission. These core business operations include budget formulation and execution, organizational structure, personnel management (including diversity, equity and inclusion), equipment and facilities management, procurement, information technology (IT), security, safety, travel, administrative services, disaster staffing and readiness and other business-related matters.
Key Responsibilities:
- The incumbent advises leadership on all human capital issues affecting Resilience, including optimizing the organizational design structure; tracking, prioritizing, and expediting hiring actions; and representing Resilience on all senior level governance bodies pertaining to human capital issues. Set Resilience policies in regard to professional development, awards, and other related human capital issues in line with federal, departmental, agency, and Resilience standards, including those related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- The incumbent is responsible for overseeing the coordination of disaster staffing and readiness across Resilience, to include soliciting and identifying staff during disasters, ensuring all employees in Resilience are assigned a disaster title, orienting all employees on the logistics associated with deployments, providing situational awareness and reporting of disaster deployments and activities across Resilience.
- The incumbent maintains up-to-date knowledge of important legislative, budgetary, Federal, State or local developments and actions which could affect policy, programs, missions and activities; Reviews relevant documents and other materials; participates in the study and analysis of the resilience operations; develops senior-level briefings and guidance.
- The incumbent provides leadership with guidance on short-and long-range budgetary activities and ensures that Resilience’s multi-billion-dollar budget supports leadership priorities. Works closely with FEMA’s Office of Policy and Program Analysis (OPPA), Office of Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) and Resilience strategic planning to oversee the Programming, Budgeting, and Execution portions of FEMA’s Planning Programming Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) cycle within Resilience. Directs and oversees the review, consolidation, formulation. and presentation of Resilience’s budget proposal for review and approval by FEMA, DHS, OMB and Congress. Directs the execution, allocation, and control of the obligation of funds appropriated to Resilience.
Required Education & Experience:
- File a Public Financial Disclosure (SF-278) required within 30 days.
- You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
- This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization’s vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
- This position is subject to random drug testing.
- This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise authoritative and decisive leadership over, and effectively manage a diverse, dynamic, and complex organization.
- The supplemental narrative statement for the Executive Core Qualifications should address the necessary level of management skills, characteristics, qualities, specialized knowledge, and technical competence that would indicate successful performance in the SES. This evidence must include clear and concise examples that emphasize the applicant’s level of responsibilities, scope, and complexity of programs managed, program accomplishments, policy initiatives, and level of contacts.
- Thorough knowledge and demonstrated experience with Federal financial management, including legislative processes, program planning, and budget formulation and execution.
- This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.
- Comprehensive knowledge of and experience in leading business operations including contracting and procurement; recruitment and hiring a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce; facilities management; information technology; organizational structure; equipment and administrative services.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/59.