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Company Information
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Company Name: USAJOBS
Website: https://www.usajobs.gov/

Job Information
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Job Title: Interpreter Sign Language Technical Expert (Sign Language Interpreter Expert Specialist)-Reservist
Job Type: Permanent
Start Date: ASAP
Job Description:
In this Interpreter Sign Language Technical Expert (Sign Language Interpreter
Expert Specialist)-Reservist position, you will be a member of the Civil
Rights Cadre and will provide Sign Language Interpreting services to FEMA
staff, disaster survivors, and the general public in order to achieve equal
access and effective communication throughout all phases of emergency
response, recovery, mitigation and preparedness. Typical assignments include:

Interpreting a variety of situations and conditions during disaster response
and recovery, including but not limited to, Internal FEMA staff meetings,
briefings, training sessions, conference calls, community meetings, and other
events.
Ensure communication between Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing/Deaf-Blind persons and
hearing persons is conveyed successfully from the source language into the
target language or communication form most clearly understood by the
participants.
Interact with various other Cadres within FEMA while maintaining
collaborative professional relationships with colleagues, senior staff,
community organizations, and disaster survivors.
Perform additional programmatic duties in support of the cadre's mission.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission to help people before, during and after disasters; so,
every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. 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.

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.



Requirements:
Conditions of Employment
To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to
be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants
must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for
Public Trust / Moderate Risk as a condition of placement into this position.
This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are
determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment
of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal
offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on
Federal Hiring Policies for additional information). For more information on
background investigations for Federal jobs please visit OPM Investigations.

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.
This position is temporary and intermittent, and you may be deployed to work
during disaster declarations.
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)
within 60 days of check-in to support a disaster. Enrollment in FEHB is
terminated after 365 cumulative days in non-pay status.
You will be eligible for the Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance
Program (FEDVIP), when you are deployed to support a disaster and expected to
work 130 hours or more per month for at least 90 consecutive days.
Qualifications
To qualify for the Interpreter Sign Language Technical Expert (Sign Language
Interpreter Expert Specialist)-Reservist, you must possess extensive
experience in each of the following areas:

Assessing individual communication needs to determine interpreting services
required; and
Interpreting (spoken to sign/sign to spoken) for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
individuals in a variety of professional settings.
In addition:

Minimum age of eighteen years of age is required.
All candidates must be a high school graduate or possess a GED.
Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything
we need to consider your application:

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.
Documenting 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/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE): 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
Education
No Educational Substitution: There is no educational substitution for this
position, and you must meet the qualifications listed in the "requirements"
section of this announcement.

Additional information
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.
The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act prohibits the Department of Homeland
Security and its Components from requesting an applicant's criminal history
record before that individual receives a conditional offer of employment. In
accordance with 5 U.S. Code § 9202(c) and 5 C.F.R § 920.201 certain
positions are exempt from the provisions of the Fair Chance to Compete Act.
Applicants who believe they have been subjected to a violation of the Fair
Chance to Compete for Jobs Act, may submit a written complaint to
FEMA-Misconduct@fema.dhs.gov [1].
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 FEMA's
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.
This vacancy may be eligible for a signing bonus.


[1] mailto:FEMA-Misconduct@fema.dhs.gov



Resume Information
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Applicants should submit the following:: Resume, Other
Other: Responses to job questionnaire
Majors Desired:: Interpreting

Application Information
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Apply online at:: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/791446300