The FEMA Program Manager/PMP acts as the key link between FEMA and Corporate leadership, ensuring alignment and accountability. They provide expert guidance to FEMA leaders and offer advisory services to recovery clients, addressing their needs and proposing solutions. They also apply corporate frameworks to organize insights and lead program teams, driving efficiency improvements.

• Serve as the government's sole point of contact and acts as the main liaison between FEMA and Corporate leadership, ensuring strategic alignment and accountability.
• Provide informed and experienced counsel to FEMA leaders, managers, and programmatic staff on response and recovery subject matter, including doctrine, and policy.
• Provide critical advisory and complex problem-solving services to recovery clients.
• Identify client areas of need; develop and propose scopes of work to address those needs.
• Apply corporate frameworks to organize insights as it relates to the needs of the clients.
• Provide clients with FEMA Public Assistance policy subject matter expertise to guide them through administrative and policy challenges and help drive overall FEMA PA project strategy and client decision making.
• Lead individual program teams or overall recovery client engagements from both an operational and administrative perspective.
• Identify and implement process improvement opportunities to increase overall team and project productivity and efficiency.

• Extensive experience supporting FEMA in response and recovery mission areas and grant programs.
• A proven track record of leadership and managerial excellence, including supervision of diverse, multi-level reporting lines.
• Deep knowledge of Federal emergency management law, regulation, policy, and doctrine.
• Personal network of relationships within Federal emergency management.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with senior executives through written and verbal channels on business plans and growth strategies.
• A proven track record of leading geographically dispersed teams (more than three (3) locations) of 500+ employees
• Three (3) years' experience managing programs greater than $50M annually

This position has supervisory responsibilities

Education: Four year degree in Planning, Finance, Disaster Management, Economics or related field or equivalent work experience in a similar environment

Project Management Professional (PMP) or ability to acquire certification within 6 months

Experience: 15 year(s) of experience

Preferred: Master's degree in Planning, Finance, Disaster Management, Economics or related field or equivalent work experience in similar environment

National Emergency Management Academies graduate

Americans with Disability Specifications: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, move, operate with hands and arms, and lift up to 15 pounds. The employee is regularly required to use hands to operate or feel objects, tools or controls, communicate, distinguish or identify, adjust or focus.

Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. This position is a sedentary position that requires 8 hours of sitting at a desk in a climate controlled environment with frequent computer, mouse, 10 key touch and phone work.

These declarations are not to be an "all-inclusive" list of the duties and responsibilities nor of the skills and abilities required to do the job. They are intended only to describe the general nature of the job and a reasonable representation of its activities. Additional essential functions and/or tasks may be identified by the company and listed as such in the incumbent's performance appraisal. Various tasks may be assigned under each task or function. The incumbent performs other job-related duties as assigned and required.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at-will" employment relationship.

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