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Financial Policy Officer
Federal Emergency Management Agency · Washington, District of Columbia and 1 more · Closes in 6 days

1 Check you can apply
2 Resume and documents
3 Apply on USAJOBS
4 After you apply

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1 Check you can apply You are here

Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.

This job is open to U.S. citizens only. Career transition applicants and federal employees whose job or agency was eliminated get priority over other applicants.

Experience: You need one full year of specialized experience at least equal to the GS-14 level, which can come from federal, state, local, or private sector work. It must show providing staff direction on financial management information systems, advising leaders on financial policy, and analyzing financial policies. Current federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade.

Education: There is no educational substitution for this position, so education cannot replace the experience requirement.

Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.

2 Resume and documents

Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Resume of no more than two pages, organized by job Resume showing job title, employer, dates, duties, and hours per week Federal applicants: grade level and occupational series for each federal job Responses to the online job questionnaire Current or former federal employees: most recent SF-50 Former political appointees: SF-50 and statement of appointment details Education from accredited schools if you rely on it to qualify

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 6 days (November 9, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).

This job will close once 100 applications are received, which may be sooner than the stated closing date.

You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.

How they rate you: Your resume is first checked for basic qualifications. Qualified applicants are rated with the USA Hire Assessment on competencies such as communication, leadership, and accountability, and veterans' preference points are added for scores of 70 or more. Applicants are not ranked, and failing to complete a required interview may lead to removal from consideration.

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4 After you apply

In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.

For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.

If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, then the final offer with your start date.

Tips for this job:

Your resume must show dates, hours per week, and grade level for each federal job, or it may be rated not qualified.
Describe your own work that matches the three required experience areas, not copied announcement text.
Complete the USA Hire Assessment on time and be ready for an interview, since skipping it can remove you.

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