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TASK FORCE: FEMA Disaster Recovery UNIT: Sandy Grant Management JOB TITLE: One (1) Deputy Assistant Director CONTROL CODE: BAW-27-03 SUMMARY: The Mayor's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the New York 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 approximately 90 City agencies and entities.
The FEMA Disaster Recovery Task Force, within the OMB-Managed Grants subdivision, works with City, State, and Federal agencies to help New York City recover from the lasting impacts of Hurricane Sandy, COVID-19, Tropical Storm Isaias, Tropical Storm Ida, and Tropical Storm Ophelia, as well as other federally declared disaster events. The team coordinates policy, monitors the budgets, and ensures compliance with applicable requirements for projects funded through the FEMA Public Assistance program. Additionally, the team works with various agencies to build the City’s capacity to prepare for and respond to future disasters. This new position will be responsible for day-to-day programmatic oversight, in conjunction with the Assistant Director and existing team staff, of the FEMA Hurricane Sandy recovery grant. This includes project management, reimbursement claiming, compliance, and grant closeout.
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 three years.
The duties of the position include the following:
o Identify and recommend solutions for various programmatic issues. o Contribute to and participate in training seminars on FEMA requirements to City agencies.
o Take an active role in identifying opportunities to increase funding awards. o Ensure that claiming/reimbursement requests are proceeding in a timely manner. o Report on status of projects to upper management, DHSES, and FEMA including identifying risks to completion. o Represent OMB/NYC in meetings with external partners like New York State and FEMA. o Work with FEMA Task Force colleagues, other OMB Task Forces, and agencies to ensure projects are adequately progressing, properly budgeted and expenditures tracked, and all relevant FEMA policy and guidance is being followed.
o Analyze the efficiency and effectiveness of task force procedures and develop recommendations for change.
Deputy Assistant Director ($145,807): Bachelor’s degree, preferably in public administration, business, finance, economics, data science, accounting or a related subject, and a minimum of four (4) years’ experience in budgetary planning/management, financial analysis, public policy analysis, grants management, or a related field or a Master’s degree, preferably in accounting, finance, public administration, public policy, or a related field, and a minimum of two (2) years of experience state grant management, financial analysis, budget planning/management; state budget analysis, or a related field.
New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.
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