TASK FORCE: FEMA Disaster Recovery and Homeland Security Grants
UNIT: FEMA Public Assistance Program and Planning
JOB TITLE: One (1) Assistant Analyst / Analyst / Senior Analyst
CONTROL CODE: BAW-23-02
SUMMARY:
The Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the City government’s chief financial agency. OMB’s staff of analysts and experts assembles and oversees the Mayor’s expense and capital budgets, which fund the services and activities of more than 90 City agencies and entities.
Within OMB, the FEMA Disaster Recovery Task Force works with City, State, and Federal agencies to help New York City recover from the ongoing and lasting impacts of COVID-19 and Hurricane Sandy. Within the FEMA Disaster Recovery Task Force, the newly formed Program and Planning Unit’s main role will be to proactively identify grant related challenges the City is facing, come up with potential solutions and ensure implementation.
Please note that this is a grant-funded position. Your term of employment is dependent upon the availability of grant funding, but it is expected to be at least four years.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The duties of the position include the following:
· Serve as a central point of contact for the Task Force on COVID-19/Hurricane Sandy policy issues.
· Assist in the research, development and maintenance of management tools to inform decision makers, both internal and external, of COVID-19/Hurricane Sandy program progress and issues.
· Assist agencies with COVID-19 related grant development, including project formulation in FEMA’s Grants Portal, drafting justification memos for non-FEMA grant streams, etc.
· Assist in the evaluation of current Task Force policies and procedures and develop new guidance as needed.
· Obtain working knowledge of the Grants Management System (GMS), the Task Force’s Document Management System (DMS) and FEMA’s Grants Portal.
· Contribute to other projects on an ad-hoc basis.
