Telecommunication Specialist

• Department: Department of Homeland Security

The Telecommunications Specialist will be responsible for serving on a team executing the full range of disaster emergency communications missions in Region 2.

What will I do in this position if hired? In this Telecommunication Specialist position, you will assist in the execution of disaster operations functions at the Regional Response Coordination Center, Initial Operating Facilities, Joint Field Offices, and Joint Recovery Offices as directed to effect consequence management. .

Typical assignments include:
Supports primary, alternate, contingency, emergency and other communications needs through planning, operating, maintaining and installing strategic and tactical communications in support of Federal, State, and local disaster response requirements at active and open disasters.

Conducts a variety of activities intended to avoid or resolve Federal, state and local interoperability related problems at open and active disaster during response and recovery scenarios.

Develops scopes of work at active and open disasters for the acquisition and integration of telecommunications systems, through the development of associated plans and schedules, estimation of resource requirements, definition of milestones anti deliverables, monitoring of activities, evaluation, and reporting on accomplishments. Supports the meetings and work of the Regional Emergency Communications Coordination Working Group.

Incorporates lessons learned and best practices from active and open disasters into relevant documents using information garnered from the After Action/Continuous Improvement processes and ongoing operations. Collaborates and fosters relationships between Federal, State, Local, Tribal, Territorial, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector, and their response mechanisms and authorities.

Trains, coaches, mentors, and supports staff assigned to the Operations Section during steady state and when deployed. Deploys in association with an Incident Management Assistance Team, the Regional Response Coordination Staff, or other organizational elements, as required, to coordinate the delivery of Federal support as requested by an impacted State at an active and open disasters. 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. This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters.

Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

Education substitution:
This position permits applicants to qualify based on education (or a combination of education and experience), as outlined in the "requirements" section. If you are using education to qualify, you must submit a copy of your transcripts (unofficial are acceptable) with your online application. Once selected and prior to appointment, applicants must provide official college transcripts.

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. For example, specific courses accepted for college-level credit by an…