Position Summary:
In this position, you will serve Region Six Environmental and Historic Preservation Branch for the Regional Environmental Officer in the Mitigation Division
Key Responsibilities:
- Conducting Environmental and/or Historic Preservation reviews to include planning and/or organizing projects,
- Conducting meetings or conferences and delivering communication to technical audiences.
- Applying environmental planning or historic preservation regulations, policies, or principals at either the federal, state, local, tribal, non-profit organization, or private sector level; and
- Developing procedural material to enhance Environmental Historic Preservation compliance capabilities.
- Identifying and integrating significant internal and external regulations, policies, procedures, practices and systems that may affect the entire agency in the establishment, coordination, oversight, and execution of FEMA funded activities’ compliance with other EHP laws and executive orders, including, but not limited to the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, National Historic Preservation Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and Executive Orders 11898 (Floodplains), 11990 (Wetlands), and 12898 (Environmental Justice), 13690 (Federal Flood Risk Management Standard).
- Planning and carrying out important environmental projects.
- Assisting senior environmental protection specialists in developing a regulatory framework and strategy for major environmental problems.
- Managing a workload of environmental policy compliance requirements and projects.
- Reviewing Environmental and/or Historic Preservation projects for compliance with law and regulations; and,
- Performing investigations, inspections, reviews, or assessments involving diverse aspects of environmental planning or historic preservation compliance protection;
Required Education & Experience:
- You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
- You must successfully pass a background investigation.
- You qualify for this position at the IC-12 level (starting salary $88,229) if you possess the following: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (IC-11) in the Federal Service. This experience may have been gained in the federal government, a state or local government, a non-profit organization, the private sector, or as a volunteer; however, your resume must clearly describe at least one year of specialized experience
- Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M.,
- Combination of education and experience
- Travel will be required.
- You must be a U.S. citizen to be considered for this position.
- 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 can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.