Emergency Management Specialist

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 06/15/2026. 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 that equipped you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties this position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-11) in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience in emergency management where you applied your knowledge of the laws, guidelines and policies governing various emergency management programs and operations to assist in developing, executing, and analyzing an emergency management program; applying data analytical and evaluation methods to determine program compliance with emergency preparedness and management rules and regulations; and applying a working knowledge of a variety of emergency, contingency and operations plans, policies, and directives to provide advice and assistance. At this level applicants should possess skills to prepare emergency situation status reports that describe response and recovery efforts, needs, and preliminary damage assessments and prepare plans that outline operating procedures to be used in response to disasters or emergencies and in recovery from these events.

Note: Experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title, duties, month and year start/end dates AND hour worked per week.

Best Qualified Criteria: Leads a full comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) /Continuity of Operations Plan for a large complex healthcare system or comparable organization, covering all phases of emergency management. Manages or co-manages an emergency management program for a medium-to-large facility with substantial CEMP/COOP responsibility. Supports specific elements of CEMP/COOP, such as annexes, hazard vulnerability analysis, or continuity tasks, under guidance. Basic related experience in emergency management, safety, preparedness, or continuity planning with limited direct CEMP/COOP involvement.

Preferred Experience: Healthcare emergency management program leadership: Leading or managing a Comprehensive Emergency Management Program (or equivalent) in a hospital, VA, or large healthcare system, including writing and maintaining Emergency Operations Plans and Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) plans. Federal/VA and interagency coordination: Direct experience coordinating with VA Office of Emergency Management (VA OEM), Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) offices, National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), and DoD/Emergency Support Function (ESF) partners, or similar federal, state, and local emergency management agencies. Incident management, Hospital Command Center (HCC), and decontamination operations hands on experience activating, staffing, and supporting a HCC or Incident Management Team during drills and real incidents and or managing or supervising decontamination programs (First Receiver Decon), including Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPRs) and other specialized equipment, unit leaders, and team training and sustainment funding. Exercise design, Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA), and Emergency Management analytics designing and evaluating exercises using Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) principles, writing After-Action Reports and Improvement Plans, and tracking corrective actions to closure and or conducting healthcare Hazard Vulnerability Analyses, using data gathering and evaluation methods to assess risk and regulatory compliance (The Joint Commission (TJC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), NIMS, etc.). Volunteer deployment and large-scale staff coordination Managing a Disaster Emergency Personnel Sys