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Job Field: Legal Jobs
Location: Winchester, Virginia

Salary: $52,146.00 - $82,019.00 / Per Year
Job Type: Full Time - Temporary - Not to Exceed 2 Years
Phone: (800) 879-6076

JOB SUMMARY:

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About the Agency

When disaster strikes, America looks to FEMA. Now FEMA looks to you. Join our team and use your talent to support Americans in their times of greatest need. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) prepares the nation for all hazards and manages Federal response and recovery efforts following any national incident. We foster innovation, reward performance and creativity, and provide challenges on a routine basis with a well-skilled, knowledgeable, high performance workforce. Please visit www.fema.gov for additional information.


This position is ideal for a professional who has experience with testing software changes and communicating the necessary software changes to developers.  This position starts at a salary of $52,146.00 (GS-9 step 1) if selected at the GS-9 level with promotion potential to the GS-11 or $63,091.00 (GS-11 step 1) if selected at the GS-11 level.  Full performance level of this position is at the GS-11 level.  Apply for this exciting opportunity to become a member of the Process Design and Innovation Section of the National Processing Services Center Division.
Promotion Potential: Future promotions will be dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and administrative approval.

EMERGENCY ASSIGNMENT: Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

This position is being announced under FEMA's CORE Program (Cadre of On-call Response/Recovery employees).  These positions are authorized under P.L. 93-288 to perform temporary disaster work and are funded from the Disaster Relief Fund.  Appointments are excepted service, temporary appointments.  This is a 2 year temporary appointment in the Excepted Service. 

TRAVEL REQUIRED

• Occasional Travel
• Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

RELOCATION AUTHORIZED

• No

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

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• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• You must successfully pass a background investigation.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after 12/31/59.
• This position may require occasional non-emergency travel.