Emergency Management Specialist

Summary

You will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist with the National Park Service for the Intermountain Region supporting sites in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. This position may be hired at the GS 12 or GS 13 grade level, with promotion potential to the GS 13 grade level. The range of pay for the GS 12 grade level is: $99,800 - 129,742/year. The range of pay for the GS 13 grade level is: $118,675 - 154,280/year.

Duties

Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Program management, including managing the Western Incident Management Team (WIMT) which supports, coordinates, and improves emergency service National Park Service (NPS) preparedness and responses to all-hazard incidents. You will serve as an emergency management specialist providing technical advice on preparedness and response activities. Managing components of emergency management activities during response, including Emergency Operations Center activation and operations You will serve as a member of an emergency team. Develops and prepares emergency management plans, procedures, risk assessments, standards, regulations, training, directives, and guidance. Provides, coordinates, and develops training for emergency response personnel to include preparedness of training, development of exercises, assessment of training, instructing, or similar training-related activities that improve the agencies all-hazard program. Coordinates and acts as a liaison with park units, regional offices, higher departments, other agencies, and communities on matters of emergency preparedness, response, and recovery. Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level. Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen or National. Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication. Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. Direct Deposit participation required. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/. Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment. Must achieve and maintains a Type II qualification at the Command and General staff level. Must serve in qualified role(s) on Incident Management Team deployments. Pre-employment and random drug testing is required. You will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive drug test is received. You must pass a physical and medical examination. You are required to wear a uniform and comply with uniform standards. A uniform allowance will be provided. You are required to complete training, obtain and maintain a government credit card with travel and purchase authority. You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work. You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 5 nights per month. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. Additional Requirements located under "Qualifications" section... Qualifications

Requirements Continued... Probationary Period: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period, dependent on the authority under which you are hired, to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest. This probationary or trial period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated. Upon completion of your probationary or trial period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest. Qualifications: All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 11/03/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Selective Placement Factors: This position requires a special qualification that has been determined to be essential to perform the duties and will be used as a screen out element. If you do not provide evidence that you possess the following selective factor(s), you will be rated not qualified. Selective Factor: Driver's license (MVO) - this position requires a driver's license at the time of appointment; the selected applicant must be able to maintain a driver's license for the duration of appointment. Please be sure to respond appropriately to the driver's license question in the Announcement Questionnaire, certifying if you do or do not possess a driver's license, or will be able to obtain one by time of appointment. Should you choose to provide documentation of holding a current, valid driver's license with your application, please do not submit documents with photographs. Documents must not contain photographs or photographs MUST be redacted from submitted documents. Possession of a current, valid driver's license will be verified before Entrance on Duty. -AND- To qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level: Experience: To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: 1) Performing emergency management work including managing, and coordinating with other city, state and federal entities in response to all-hazard incidents, 2) Interpreting laws, policies, or regulations related to emergency management to make programmatic decisions; and 3) Provides, coordinates, and assesses emergency response and preparedness training to ensure operations are in line with established policies, guidelines, and applicable agreements. You must include hours per week worked. To qualify for this position at the GS-13 grade level: Experience: To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: 1) Providing incident command management; 2) Providing the planning, developing, coordination, and execution of emergency response program management; 3) Providing emergency procedures, risk assessments, management of training and exercise programs in support of a regional Emergency Management program; 4) Developing long-range training plans to support incident management at a regional level. You must include hours per week worked. Volunteer Experience: 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.

Education

This position does not allow substituting education for experience. How You Will Be Evaluated

Your qualifications will be evaluated based on your application materials (e.g. resume, supporting documents), the responses you provide on the application questionnaire, and the result of the additional assessment(s) required for this position. To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. Your resume must not exceed 2 pages. Only the document submitted as the "Resume" under the Documents section will be used to determine your qualifications/eligibility and for rating purposes. In the event you submit more than one resume, only the latest submission will be reviewed. You will be assessed in the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Customer Service Customer Service (Clerical/Technical) Education and Training Organizational Awareness Planning and Evaluating Technical Competence To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and application questionnaire, this position requires successful completion of additional assessment(s), including a Structured Resume Review. These assessments measure the critical competencies listed above that are required to successfully perform the job. All qualified non-competitive applicants and the best-qualified Merit Promotion applicants will be referred to the hiring manager for consideration. Overstating your qualifications and/or experience in your application materials or application questionnaire may result in your removal from consideration or your score may be lowered. Cheating on an assessment may also result in your removal from consideration. Applicants who include vulgar, offensive, or inappropriate language or information in their application package will be ineligible for further consideration for this position. Current or former displaced Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separated have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, you must be well-qualified, score at least 85 (i.e., meet the minimum qualification requirements, including any selective placement factors; education, and experience requirements), and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. Other Information

Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement. Pay will vary based on grade level for which you're selected. First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the step 1 rate. Promotion to the full performance level is neither guaranteed nor implied and will be based solely on your ability to satisfactorily perform the work of the position, existing work at the higher grade level, and recommendation by the position's supervisor. If otherwise eligible and qualified, you may be offered a recruitment or relocation incentive. The decision to offer an incentive will be made on a case-by-case basis and is neither promised nor guaranteed. For information visit: Recruitment Incentive or Relocation Incentive. A continued service agreement may be required if it is determined you are eligible for a permanent change in duty station (PCS), recruitment, or relocation incentive. All DOI employees, their spouses, and minor children may not acquire or retain any claim, permit, lease, small tract entry, or other rights granted by the Department in Federal lands, with limited exceptions. Additional ethics prohibitions can be found here, DOI Ethics Prohibitions | U.S. Department of the Interior. Physical Demands: Work demands range from moderate periods of office work (walking, standing, sitting, and lifting) to long, strenuous periods of extreme physical and mental activity during emergency response. During emergency response the work may include long periods of standing, hiking, and/or climbing, in many cases on uneven, steep, rough, slippery, and/or rugged terrain. Strenuous exertion is sometimes required during emergency response planning and operational activities. Such activities may involve walking long distances over rough terrain, carrying heavy loads, and using technical rescue equipment. Incumbent must be able to fly in a helicopter or fixed wing aircraft without ill effects. Extended travel (per incident management guidelines) to locations within the United States is required in the conduct of business. Lodging arrangements when responding to emergencies and natural disasters may require sleeping in temporary quarters or tents. Work Environment: The work environment ranges from sedentary office work to fieldwork with exposure to severe natural elements. Work is done in temperatures which may range from below freezing to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and may be performed in high humidity, snow, sleet, rain, and high winds and at elevations ranging from sea level to over 11,000 feet above sea level. Work may involve exposure to hazardous environments, hazardous flight landings and takeoffs, and extremes in temperature. Various levels of personal protective clothing are required to perform certain functions safely. The duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval.