Grants Management Specialist

Summary

This position is located in Region Six, Mitigation Division. The ideal candidate for this position will have experience enhancing and developing Hazard Mitigation Assistance programs through innovation, customer-service, collaboration, and problem-solving for optimal results.

What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as a Grants Management Specialist performing work that involves implementing and managing Federal grants and cooperative agreements (CA) and providing related technical assistance and services. Typical assignments include:
Reviewing and evaluating Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant sub applications through all phases of the grants cycle from initial receipt, award, obligations, post-award monitoring, and processing amendment requests Providing technical assistance on all matters relating to mitigation and HMA policy guidance is provided as needed. Working with state, tribal, and local governments through the request for information (RFI) process to ensure application completeness and eligibility.

Providing technical assistance on all matters relating to mitigation and HMA policy guidance is provided as needed. 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.

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 Public Trust/High 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: Myth buster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information).

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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.

Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position at the GS-12 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 level in the…