Emergency Management Specialist

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Palo Alto (CA); Sur place; USD 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto is seeking an Emergency Management Specialist to manage the health care system’s support for the Comprehensive Emergency Management Program (CEMP).

The role involves daily interaction with VAMC leadership, VISN, OEM, and community stakeholders to sustain national and regional emergency readiness. Applicants must meet Time-In-Grade requirements and have specialized experience coordinating CEMP activities, maintaining databases, and ensuring

Qualifications

• Specialized Experience: Coordinating and managing the facility Comprehensive Emergency Management Program (CEMP) including preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery, and continuity activities.
• Maintaining databases and resource requirements.
• Ensures supplies, communication requirements, and technology support are deployed and operational when activated in response to any exercises or a real event.
• Assists in the development and implementation of Emergency Management protocols and methods.

Responsabilités

• Develops, implements, sustains, and maintains policies and guidance within the VHA, local, and community.
• Provides leadership with direction management, professional and technical expertise regarding the development and implementation of the CEMP.
• Plans, organizes, implements, oversees and provides technical assistance for projects relating to emergency management programs.
• Consulting and advising on creating subgroups, training requirements and message building.
• Establishes, revises and reviews policies, procedures, mission objectives and organizational design for mission accomplishment and complex issues related to EM, EOC, and COOP activities for VHA.
• Work Schedule: Monday - Friday
• 8:00am - 4:30pm
• Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Description du poste

Summary

The position of an Emergency Management Specialist (EMS) manages the health care system in sustaining national and regional support to the Comprehensive Emergency Management Program (CEMP). The EMS is a high-profile position requiring daily interaction with the highest levels of VAMC leadership - Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) - VHA and the VHA Office of Emergency Management (OEM) - and community stakeholders.

Summary

The position of an Emergency Management Specialist (EMS) manages the health care system in sustaining national and regional support to the Comprehensive Emergency Management Program (CEMP). The EMS is a high-profile position requiring daily interaction with the highest levels of VAMC leadership - Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) - VHA and the VHA Office of Emergency Management (OEM) - and community stakeholders.

To qualify for this position - applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement - 11/23/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. The grade may have been in any occupation - but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year - it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade - as required by the announcement. In this instance - you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include - but are not limited to: Coordinating and managing the facility Comprehensive Emergency Management Program (CEMP) - including preparedness - mitigation - response - recovery - and continuity activities. Maintaining databases and resource requirements. Ensures supplies - communication requirements - and technology support are deployed and operational when activated in response to any exercises or a real event. Assists in the development and implementation of Emergency Management protocols and methods. For more information on these qualification standards - please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Duties

• Duties include but are not limited to: Develop - implement - sustain - and maintain policies and guidance within the VHA - local - and community
• Provides leadership with direction management - professional and technical expertise regarding the development and implementation of the CEMP
• Plans - organizes - implements - oversees and provides technical assistance for projects relating to emergency management programs
• Consulting and advising on creating subgroups - training requirements and message building
• Establishes - revises - and reviews policies - procedures - mission objectives and or organizational design for mission accomplishment and complex and evolving issues and functions - including the development of appropriate national guidance and procedures as it relates to EM - EOC - and COOP activities for VHA
• Work Schedule: Monday - Friday - 8:00am - 4:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position
• Position Description/PD#: Emergency Management Specialist/PD99789S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized