Summary This position is located in United States Fire Administration (USFA), Emmitsburg, Maryland. The ideal candidate for this position will be an experienced training specialist skilled in adult learning, curriculum development, and contract oversight for fire and emergency programs; able to analyze needs, address training gaps, manage specialty areas, and improve courses/materials. Duties What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as Training Specialist. Typical assignments include: Developing education programs for fire and emergency medical services (EMS) audiences, including courses, instructional materials, publications, and related training products, using adult learning theory and instructional systems design principles. Implementing and evaluating training programs by coordinating course delivery, reviewing instructional effectiveness, analyzing learner and program outcomes, and revising content to address emerging national fire service and EMS issues. Serving as a functional area expert and program manager for assigned US Fire Administration/National Fire Academy (USFA/NFA) specialty or curriculum areas, providing technical guidance and ensuring training programs support national fire service and EMS education needs. Conducting curriculum assessments and gap analyses by collecting stakeholder input, identifying program strengths, weaknesses, shortfalls, and training needs, and coordinating the development or revision of courses and educational systems. What else do I need to know? At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and 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. Qualifications Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR)- In addition to the minimum qualifications described above, you must meet the following requirements to be considered qualified for the position: Experience - Teaching or instructing in an adult education program, secondary school, college, military installation, or industrial establishment in the appropriate field(s), - Supervising or administering a training program. - Development or review of training/course materials, aids, devices, etc., and evaluation of training results, - Work in the occupation or subject-matter field of the position to be filled that required training or instructing others on a regular basis. Transcripts required The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position at the GS-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following: Implementing and directing of training initiatives for fire and investigative sciences, which includes designing, developing, and providing instruction for fire/arson and explosion investigation programs for federal, state, or local investigators; OR Managing a comprehensive educational program related to incident management systems, which includes developing, revising, and presenting educational courses and providing consultation to national, state, or local level organizations on incident management teams training; OR Developing and implementing adult educational programs related to emergency management, fire services, or wildfires, which includes coordinating with other educational programs and fire protection organizations to ensure the effective application of current subject matter knowledge and educational theories. 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. 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. Are you qualifying based on your work experience? Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the grade level, occupational series and dates in which you held each grade level. Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/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 deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, 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. 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. This announcement uses the Rule of Many method under 5 CFR § 332.402. All qualified applicants who either exceeded the cut number/percentage or tie with other qualified applicants at the cut number/percentage will be referred to the selecting official for consideration. We will provide the selecting official with a sufficient number of names, when available, to consider at least three candidates per vacancy. If fewer than three eligible and available candidates per vacancy result, we will expand the group in accordance with our pre-announced supplement strategy and OPM policy.