The closing date for application of these positions is Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 5 p.m.
Position duties
Local Long Term Flood Recovery Technical Assistance
- Assist the local leader for the assigned community(ies).
- As requested, help local officials identify specific and achievable solutions to ongoing recovery challenges.
- Work with local government, DOLA Regional Managers, and DHSEM Mitigation and Recovery, Field Services, and Operations staff to identify stakeholders for a local long-term recovery planning process.
- In support of local communities, work with CWCB, COEM, FEMA, NRCS and other stakeholders on stream restoration projects.
- In partnership with DOLA staff, DHSEM Mitigation and Recovery, Field Services, and Operations Staff, FEMA and other relevant state and federal partners, support and document the local recovery planning process.
- Identify and, at the local government’s request, pursue funding sources for local recovery projects.
- Support implementation of identified projects in local long-term recovery plans; track and document progress.
- Support local efforts to engage and inform the public throughout the local planning process and implementation of projects; schedule, support and attend public meetings as requested by local government.
- Support local government in efforts to maintain engagement of stakeholders throughout the long-term recovery process.
- Assist local governments with coordination, administration, and facilitation of activities with any established non-governmental agencies, Long-Term Recovery Groups or non-governmental agency coalitions supporting individual and family recovery.
- Work with FEMA, local government agencies and non-governmental agencies to assess ongoing individual unmet needs and connect individuals to FEMA Individual Assistance or non-governmental agency resources as available.
- Identify gaps in local recovery efforts; work with local, state, federal and non-governmental partners to connect resources to the community.
- Provide quarterly reports to OEM on employee’s activities in progress or completed, actions to be taken and a proposed schedule of those actions.
FEMA Recovery Programs Support
- Support development of Public Assistance project worksheets for FEMA Disasters 4145-DR-CO.
- Assist the communities or at the community’s request function as the communities’ project manager/liaison for FEMA Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation Grant Program projects.
- Assist the communities or, as requested by the local government, function as the communities’ grant administrator/liaison for grants associated with the FEMA Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation Grant Programs.
- Support local governments in the identification and oversight of contractors necessary to implement Public Assistance projects.
- Support identification of FEMA Public Assistance 406 Mitigation projects.
- Support identification and development of scopes of work for Hazard Mitigation Grant Program projects.
- Work with FEMA Public Assistance Coordinators, State Public Assistance Coordinators, DHSEM Mitigation and Recovery, Field Services, and Operations Staff, and local government representatives to implement local Public Assistance or Hazard Mitigation Grant Program projects.
- Where feasible, help local communities identify potential Public Assistance Alternate Project opportunities; support development of acceptable and achievable alternate project scopes of work.
- Support local governments in the tracking of expenses, submission of reimbursement requests and closeout of projects.
- Support communities in identifying, scoping, implementing projects and tracking finances for projects that require multiple funding streams, such as Public Assistance, the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, the Natural Resources Conservation Service Emergency Watershed Protection Program, or other federal and state programs.
- Assist communities in lining up technical assistance options.
- Support local communities in the identification and tracking of local matching costs, including volunteer hours.
- Work with FEMA and COEM to track progress, assess effectiveness and identify any improvements with the Individual Assistance Program and housing operations.
- Provide quarterly reports to OEM on employee’s activities in progress or completed, actions to be taken and a proposed schedule of those actions.
