Summary:
The candidate will report to Region Three / Response Division. The ideal candidate for this position will should have experience providing planning and operational guidance on topics related to climate science and meteorology including severe weather, flooding, extreme heat, and hurricanes. This experience should include fluency with National Hurricane Center forecast products and other tools used to forecast or inform preparedness or response to meteorological threats, hazards, and risks.
Duties:
What will I do in this position if hired?
In this position, you will lead and coordinate with jurisdictional partners regarding the delivery of severe weather, flooding, and hurricane season preparedness activities and processes, including after-action or continuous improvement functions.
Typical assignments include:
- Coordinate, administer, and deliver appropriate training opportunities for Region 3 staff and jurisdictional partners.
- Evaluate emergency plans and annexes ensuring appropriate integration of climate, severe weather, flooding, and hurricane preparedness and response activities and processes and that appropriately integrates with jurisdictional hurricane plans across Region 3.
- Attend regional and national partner engagements and conduct outreach to those partners, as appropriate, regarding climate, severe weather, flooding, and hurricane preparedness and response.
- Provide Region 3 leadership with analysis and guidance regarding hazardous weather that may affect the Region 3 area of responsibility, equities, and partners.
Qualifications:
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 Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following:
- Coordinating and delivering severe weather, flooding, and hurricane season preparedness activities and processes, AND
- Evaluating and developing severe weather, flooding, and hurricane related plans or standard operating procedures, AND
- Providing analysis and guidance using tools for storm forecasting, storm surge risk, or evacuation planning, AND
- Providing training regarding climate, severe weather, flooding, and hurricane threats/risks or preparedness and response.