Spend Plan Coordinators are responsible for providing leadership, customer service, analysis, training and technical assistance to Regional and national resources in order to ensure compliance to financial directives and support of the national DRF spend plan process.
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Duties
What will I do in this position if hired?
In this position, you will serve as the Spend Plan Coordinator to support the national Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) spend plan process.
Typical assignments include:
- Prepare and review reports to provide spend plan oversight to the assigned field and Regional Offices.
- Plan and evaluate the development of priorities and monitor the data input and output of projected costs.
- Coordinate a wide range of financial activities for the assigned disaster field office related to travel, vendor contracts, inter agency agreement and disaster grants.
At FEMA, our mission to help people before, during and after disasters; so, every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. During large-scale or unprecedented events, all FEMA employees may be called upon to support response or recovery efforts, either virtually or in person. Deployments may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than your official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in your official position description. If deployed in person, travel may last weeks, with little advance notice, and may require relocation to emergency sites.
As a Reservist Employee, your role is to support response or recovery efforts. Reservists are intermittent, on-call employees. Please note that this is not a full-time position, and you only are paid when deployed. Deployment frequency and length varies based on disaster response need. Due to the irregular nature of disasters, Reservist employees are not guaranteed regular recurring hours, deployments, or renewal of employment.
The Civilian Reservist Emergency Workforce (CREW) Act protects the job rights of FEMA Reservists while they are deployed to disasters, emergencies, and critical trainings by including FEMA Reservists under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployments Rights Act (USERRA). This means that if you hold another job, you are able to deploy as a FEMA reservist and your job will be protected. It also protects you against penalization, discrimination, or loss of employee benefits as a result of your deployments to disasters, emergencies, and critical trainings. For more information, please visit FEMA.gov/careers or review the USERRA Resources from the Department of Labor.
FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflect the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people it serves. To learn about the ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit fema.gov.
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Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a U.S. citizen to be considered for this position.
- You must successfully pass a background investigation.
- Travel will be required.
- You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
- Selective service registration is required for males born after 12/31/59.
- Please review "Other Information" section for additional key requirements.
Qualifications
All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
To qualify for the Spend Plan Coordinator, you must possess experience in each of the following areas:
- Providing financial analysis to determine compliance, accounting codes, classification, and financial procedures; and
- Utilizing electronic systems to analyze and manage cost reporting and/or spend plan data; and
- Providing advice and/or solutions to stakeholders on financial policies and procedures. OR
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3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree
In addition:
- Minimum age of eighteen years of age is required.
- All candidates must be a high school graduate or possess a GED.
- Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.
- Please limit your resume to five pages. If more than five pages are submitted, only the first five pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications. Your full resume will be made available to the hiring manager if you are referred.
- Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your experience.
- Qualifications are based on breadth/level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, you must provide your job title (including series and grade if a federal position), start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), and the number of hours worked per week if part time.
Current or former FEMA Reservists/DAE employees: To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of each deployment, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment.- Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found not qualified. Overstating your qualifications and/or experience in your application materials or application questionnaire may result in your removal from consideration.
- Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills, and provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
- For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards
NOTE: If you are qualifying based on education and/or are selected for a position which requires a college degree to meet minimum qualification requirements, you will be required to submit your official college transcript(s) at time of selection.
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. For example, specific courses accepted for college-level credit by an accredited U.S. college or university, or foreign education evaluated by an organization recognized for accreditation by the Department of Education as education equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. college or university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. Visit the Department of Education's Recognition of Foreign Qualifications for more information.
Additional information
- RESERVIST APPOINTMENTS: The Reservist Program is an appointment type granted under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, Section 306 (b), which authorizes FEMA to appoint such temporary employees as necessary to accomplish work authorized under the Act.
- If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you will be required to complete an Optional Form 306, Declaration for Federal Employment, and to sign and certify the accuracy of all information in your application, prior to entry on duty. False statements on any part of the application may result in withdrawal of offer of employment, dismissal after beginning work, fine, or imprisonment.
- DHS uses E-verify, an internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities.
- Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for DHS to share your application with other in DHS for similar positions.
- All candidates must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time. Deployments may include working in excess of eight hours a day, or in excess of 40 hours in a given week, including weekends and holidays, and under stressful, physically demanding, and austere conditions. When activated and deployed, you serve in a federal travel status and are entitled to lodging, transportation and per diem reimbursements for authorized expenses in accordance with federal travel regulations.
- All candidates must be available to deploy at all times during the term of this appointment unless pre-approved through authorized Reservist leave. Reservists may take up to 90 days of unpaid Reservist Leave per year.
- FEMA Reservist employees must maintain an address of primary residency (which will serve as the official duty station of the employee), in a Stafford Act State, as defined by Section 102(4) of the Stafford Act.
- If selected for this position, you will be required to complete FEMAs onboarding program and a subsequent orientation program. Additional orientation information will be provided post selection.
- The salary range indicated in this announcement reflects the minimum locality pay up to maximum locality pay for the Rest of U.S. locality pay area. The salary range will be adjusted for the selected duty location and associated OPM locality pay area. General Schedule locality pay tables and locality adjustment information may be found under the OPM Salaries & Wages website.
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- You will be paid only during times of deployment or when attending critical trainings.
- You will be paid sick leave and earn one hour of sick leave for every 20 hours in a pay status, up to four hours each pay period.
- You will be eligible to enroll in Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) when in a pay status of 14 days or more. Enrollment in FEHB terminates upon entering a non-pay status.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
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