Overview:

The PA Site Inspector Task Force Leader (STTL) is responsible for overseeing the site inspection process, ensuring Site Inspectors (SI) successfully complete site inspections and develop accurate Damage Description and Dimensions (DDD). The STFL will assess skills and capabilities of the Site Inspectors and ensures Site Inspectors skills match site inspection requirements. They will position staff for success in their assignments by managing and tracking the distribution of work, facilitate resolution of issues identified by the Site Inspector or PDMG, brief and coordinate with leadership on operational needs or issues.

Location: North Carolina – Durham or Asheville JFO

Duties:

In this position, the responsibilities will include but not limited to the following:

• Maintain availability to nationally deploy and/or be deployed for a minimum of 300 days in a calendar year.

• Possess situational awareness of the disaster and Applicant Profiles being developed in Phase I

of the PA grant delivery process.

• Be knowledgeable about the roles and responsibilities of the Site Inspector position.

• Communicate operational objectives to staff and monitor deliverables.

• Responsible for verifying site inspections scheduled by the Program Delivery Managers (PDMGs).

• Coordinate with Environmental and Historic Preservation (EHP) and Mitigation participation in the site inspection.

• Ensure their assigned Site Inspectors complete quality and timely site inspections and DDDs.

• Facilitate issue resolution in coordination with other TFLs.

• Determine needed and available assets; Assess capabilities of staff assigned to you compared with the disaster impacts in your area of responsibility and raise any shortfall/overages to leadership for appropriate action.

• Prepare briefings.

• Provide feedback on policies and processes to support disaster outcomes through the

development of new standards, regulations, practices, trainings, and procedures.

• Provide and document informal performance and/or conduct counsel to employees and notify leadership of such actions.

• Mentor and coach staff to setup their employees for success.

The ideal candidate will have experience with the following:

• Emulate FEMA’s core values of compassion, fairness, integrity, and respect.

• Strong oral and written communication techniques, and superb customer service delivery experience.

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, effectively manage multiple priorities, and travel to support field site visits, when appropriate.

• Have knowledge of public policy issues related to the emergency management field and have experience or knowledge of all areas of the PA program.

• Provide technical advice and guidance to leadership concerning recovery issues.

• Demonstrated experience leading teams of people, client relations, and project management.

• Organizational skills and ability to adapt to changing situations.

• Maintains good performance reviews.

• Qualified Site Inspector or Site Inspector Crew Lead

Qualifications Required:

• Experience implementing emergency management standards, regulations, practices, training, and procedures to identify, minimize or eliminate hazards and threats.

• Experience in facilitating discussions related to policies, doctrine, and processes amongst multiple stakeholders.

• Experience building relationships and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.

• Experience assigning work and task.

• Experience in managing/leading a team.

• Experience serving as a liaison.

• Experience completing or providing input for staff performance reviews.

• Ability to travel for field visits when required or necessary.

• Maintains good performance reviews.

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. This position will be hired into a temporary 2 year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval. FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the spanersity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing spanersity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit

www.fema.gov.