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Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Planning Unit Leader)
Federal Emergency Management Agency · Kansas City, Missouri · Closes in 5 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: The public.

The job is open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the United States.

Experience: You need one full year of specialized experience at least equal to the IT-2 level. This includes analyzing emergency management planning policies or processes for disaster field operations, and working with varied stakeholders to develop planning products. Experience can come from federal, state, local, or private sector work, and volunteer work counts.

Education: Education cannot replace experience at this grade.

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 two pages or less, showing job title, employer, start and end dates, duties, and hours per week Federal employees: SF-50 showing your current or highest grade level Responses to the online occupational questionnaire FEMA Reservist or DAE applicants: deployment dates, job titles, and duties for each deployment Transcripts in English, from accredited schools, if you rely on education

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 5 days (November 8, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).

This job will close once 100 applications are received, which may happen before the posted 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: You are rated on how well you meet the minimum qualifications, based on your resume, supporting documents, and questionnaire. Qualified applicants may be referred to the hiring manager, and interviews may be required; not completing an interview can remove you from consideration. Missing required resume details can make you 'not qualified,' and including personal information like birthdate or Social Security number makes your resume ineligible.

Apply on USAJOBS ↗

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:

Describe at least one year of work that shows both required skills, with dates and hours per week for each job.
Keep your resume to two pages or fewer, since longer resumes are removed from consideration.
Write your resume in your own words and do not copy the duties or qualifications text from the announcement.

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