Emergency Management Specialist

About the role

This position is located at the Oklahoma City VA Health Care System in Oklahoma City, OK. The person in this position functions as the Emergency Management Specialist Facility Assistant and is responsible for assisting the Emergency Management Specialist (EMS) in preparing for, carrying out, or coordinating emergency functions to prevent, protect from, mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies and disasters.

Responsibilities

• Provides support for the medical center emergency management assessments, operations, planning, liaison, mission activities and functions
• Affords assistance in the development and implementation of Emergency Management protocols and methods
• Ensures that training and operations requirements are fully integrated, coordinated, and in compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements
• Affords assistance in implementing workforce goals
• Covers coordination of personnel resources, to include periods of activation
• Prepares draft annual report and budgets for programs
• Analyzes and evaluates, on a quantitative and qualitative basis, the effectiveness of programs and operations in meeting established goals and objectives
• Collaborates with the Emergency Management manager to review, analyze and coordinate the implementation and evaluation of exercises to test and critique comprehensive emergency management plans and programs
• Serves as a facility evaluator during emergency management exercise scenarios
• Works with emergency management and community partners to perform hazard vulnerability analysis designed to assess the risks that have the potential to interrupt the continuity of critical operations
• Affords assistance in developing and implementing a variety of emergency management guidelines and structures for general and specific operations including contingency plans and the continuity of operations
• In the absence of the Emergency Management manager, supports and provides advice and guidance on all aspects of emergency management
• Maintains databases and resource requirements
• Manages and coordinates the procurement, mobilization, utilization and demobilization of resources and assets
• Provides assistance in coordination of various program offices, to include the Safety Officer, Industrial Hygienist, Green Environmental Management System (GEMS) Coordinator, Decontamination Triage Leader, Decontamination Entry Team Leader, Decontamination Site Access Control Unit Leader and Decontamination Logistics Officer
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Requirements

This position is open to Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), Family of overseas employees, Federal employees - Competitive service, Individuals with disabilities, Internal to an agency - appears on USAJOBS, Land & base management, Military spouses, National Guard & Reserves, Peace Corps & AmeriCorps Vista, Special authorities and Veterans.

Qualifications

• To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/10/2026.
• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.
• Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this Emergency Management Specialist - Facility Assistant. (Transcripts must be submitted at time of application).
• Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond successfully completed graduate education (above a master's degree) and specialized experience as described above, which meet the total requirements for this grade level.