Management Analyst (Data Analytics)

The ideal candidate leads and manages data analytics projects, translates business needs into technical requirements, advises senior leaders with clear analysis, manages stakeholder relationships, and supports strategic planning.

What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will lead, coordinate, and develop analytical processes, methods, and products aligned with the strategic, operational, and administrative requirements of FEMA preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery, mission support, and grants management programs and offices. Typical assignments include: Leading data management and analytics projects that support strategic planning, program evaluation, business process improvements, and data-driven decision-making across the organization. Working with senior leaders, supervisors, technical partners, and stakeholders to identify goals, define business requirements, develop project specifications, and prioritize analytics products and services. Translating programmatic needs into technical requirements and communicating technical concepts, data limitations, findings, and recommendations in a clear and actionable manner for varied audiences. Developing, reviewing, and presenting data-driven analyses, reports, dashboards, briefings, and recommendations to support operational planning, resource decisions, and program performance improvements. Establishing and maintaining relationships, partnerships, and data-sharing coordination with internal and external stakeholders, including federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, private sector, nonprofit, and academic partners. 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.

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. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office. Please ensure you meet the qualification requirements described below. Key Requirements: You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position. You must successfully pass a background investigation. Selective Service registration required. Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements. You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card. You 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. Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.