Interpreter Sign Language Technical Expert (Sign Language Interpreter Expert Specialist)-Reservist

Interpreter Sign Language Technical Expert (Sign Language Interpreter Expert Specialist)-Reservist Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency Integrion and Coordinion Division - Civil Rights Cadre Summary In this position, you will work as a member of the Civil Rights Cadre. The ideal candide will have extensive experience in providing interpreting and translitering services as a reasonable accommodion for individuals who are Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, and Deaf-Blind in a variety of fast-paced settings. NEW! USERRA now protects the full-time employment of FEMA reservists when they are deployed to disasters, emergencies, and critical trainings on behalf of FEMA. Review the FEMA Crew Act FAQs. Learn more about this agency Summary In this position, you will work as a member of the Civil Rights Cadre. The ideal candide will have extensive experience in providing interpreting and translitering services as a reasonable accommodion for individuals who are Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, and Deaf-Blind in a variety of fast-paced settings. NEW! USERRA now protects the full-time employment of FEMA reservists when they are deployed to disasters, emergencies, and critical trainings on behalf of FEMA. Review the FEMA Crew Act FAQs. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this month • Apply by 07/13/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 13, 2026 This job will close when we have received 100 applicions which may be sooner than the closing de. Learn more Locion MANY vacancies in the following locion: Locion Negotiable After Selection No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible No Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $51 - $66.30 per hour Pay scale & grade IM 3 Promotion potential None Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 76% or greer - You may be expected to travel for this position. In addition to frequent travel reled to deployments, occasional non-emergency travel may be required. Appointment type Intermittent Occupions and job series 1001 General Arts And Informion Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Modere Risk (MR) Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

AT-12996598-RSV

Control number 875033100 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Clarificion from the agency The Reservist Program is an appointment type granted under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, Section 306 (b), which authorizes FEMA to appoint such temporary employees as necessary to accomplish work authorized under the Act. Duties Help Wh will I do in this position if hired? In this Interpreter Sign Language Technical Expert (Sign Language Interpreter Expert Specialist)-Reservist position, you a member of the Civil Rights Cadre and will provide Sign Language Interpreting services to FEMA staff in order to achieve equal access and effective communicion throughout all phases of emergency response, recovery, mitigion and preparedness.

Typical assignments include:

Interpreting a variety of situions and conditions during disaster response and recovery, including but not limited to, internal FEMA staff meetings, briefings, training sessions, conference calls, community meetings, and other events. Ensure communicion between Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing/Deaf-Blind persons and hearing persons is conveyed successfully from the source language into the target language or communicion form most clearly understood by the participants. Interact with various other Cadres within FEMA while maintaining collaborive professional relionships with colleagues, senior staff, community organizions, and disaster survivors. Perform additional programmic duties in support of the cadre's mission. Wh else do I need to know? At FEMA, our mission to help people before, during and after disasters; so, every employee 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 operions, which may require irregular work hours, work locions other than the official duty stion, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operions may be extensive in nure (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to reloce to emergency sites with physically austere and operionally challenging conditions. As a Reservist Employee, your role is to support response or recovery efforts. Reservists are intermittent, on-call employees. Please note th this is not a full-time position, and you only are paid when deployed. Deployment frequency and length varies based on disaster response need. Due to the irregular nure of disasters, Reservist employees are not guaranteed regular recurring hours, deployments, or renewal of employment. The Civilian Reservist Emergency Workforce (CREW) Act protects the job rights of FEMA Reservists while they are deployed to disasters, emergencies, and critical trainings by including FEMA Reservists under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployments Rights Act (USERRA). This means th if you hold another job, you are able to deploy as a FEMA reservist and your job protected. It also protects you against penalizion, discriminion, or loss of employee benefits as a result of your deployments to disasters, emergencies, and critical trainings. For more informion, please FEMA.gov/careers or review the USERRA Resources from the Department of Labor. Requirements Help Conditions of employment 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 investigion for Public Trust as a condition of placement into this position. This may include a credit check after initial job qualificions are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligions, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please : Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional informion). For more informion on background investigions for Federal jobs please OPM Investigions .

Conditions of Employment:

You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position. You must successfully pass a background investigion. Selective Service registrion required. You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card. Travel required. Please review the Additional Informion section for additional key requirements. This position is temporary and intermittent, and you may be deployed to work during disaster declarions. You paid only during times of deployment or when tending critical trainings. You paid sick leave and earn one hour of sick leave for every 20 hours in a pay stus, up to four hours each pay period. You eligible to enroll in Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) within 60 days of check-in to support a disaster. Enrollment in FEHB is termined after 365 cumulive days in non-pay stus. You eligible for the Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program (FEDVIP), when you are deployed to support a disaster and expected to work 130 hours or more per month for least 90 consecutive days. Qualificions To qualify for the Interpreter Sign Language Technical Expert (Sign Language Interpreter Expert Specialist)-Reservist, you must possess experience in each of the following areas: Assessing individual communicion needs to determine interpreting services required; and Interpreting (spoken to sign/sign to spoken) for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing individuals in a variety of professional settings.

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Minimum age of eighteen years of age is required. All candides must be a high school gradue or possess a GED. Please read the following important informion to ensure we have everything we need to consider your applicion: Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupional assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as th will not be considered a demonstrion of your qualificions for this position. Your resume serves as the basis for experience reled qualificion determinions, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and educion (if applicable), as it reles 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.

Documenting your experience:

Qualificions are based on breadth/level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, you must provide your job title (including series and grade if a federal position), start and end des of each period of employment (from

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), and the number of hours worked per week if part time. Current or former FEMA Reservists/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE): To accurely credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the des (from

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) of each deployment , 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 informion. Failure to provide the above informion in your resume may result in your applicion being found "not qualified". Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills, and provides valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. For additional informion on crediting experience and/or educion, please reference the

OPM General Schedule Qualificion Standards Educion No Educional Substitution:

There is no educional substitution for this position, and you must meet the qualificions listed in the "requirements" section of this announcement. Additional informion If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you required to complete an Optional Form 306, Declarion for Federal Employment , and to sign and certify the accuracy of all informion in your applicion, prior to entry on duty. False stements on any part of the applicion may result in withdrawal of offer of employment, dismissal after beginning work, fine, or imprisonment. The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act prohibits the Department of Homeland Security and its Components from requesting an applicant's criminal history record before th individual receives a conditional offer of employment. In accordance with 5 U.S. Code § 9202(c) and 5 C.F.R § 920.201 certain positions are exempt from the provisions of the Fair Chance to Compete Act. Applicants who believe they have been subjected to a violion of the Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act, may submit a written complaint to FEMA-Misconduct@fema.dhs.gov . DHS uses E-verify, an internet based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United Stes. Learn more about E-Verify , including your rights and responsibilities. Applying to this announcement certifies th you give permission for DHS to share your applicion with others in DHS for similar positions. During the applicion process you will have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions. All candides must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United Stes and its territories for an extended period of time. Deployments may include working in excess of eight hours a day, or in excess of 40 hours in a given week, including weekends and holidays, and under stressful, physically demanding, and austere conditions. When actived and deployed, you serve in a federal travel stus and are entitled to lodging, transportion and per diem reimbursements for authorized expenses in accordance with federal travel regulions. All candides must be available to deploy all times during the term of this appointment unless pre-approved through authorized Reservist leave. Reservists may take up to 90 days of unpaid Reservist Leave per year. FEMA Reservist employees must maintain an address of primary residency (which will serve as the official duty stion of the employee), in a Stafford Act "Ste", as defined by Section 102(4) of the Stafford Act. If selected for this position, you required to complete FEMA's onboarding program and a subsequent oriention program. Additional oriention informion provided post selection. The salary range indiced in this announcement reflects the minimum locality pay up to maximum locality pay for the Rest of U.S. locality pay area. The salary range adjusted for the selected duty locion and associed OPM locality pay area . General Schedule locality pay tables and locality adjustment informion may be found under the OPM Salaries & Wages website. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. We will review your resume, supporting documention, and your responses to the occupional questionnaire to ensure you meet the minimum qualificion requirements listed in the announcement. If you are qualified, you may be referred to a hiring manager for considerion. We recommend th you preview the online questions for this announcement before you start the applicion process. To preview, please review: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12996598 . Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help Do not include photos, personally identifying informion (PII) (including birthday and social security numbers), or personal informion such as age, sex, medical history, etc. Resumes th include any of this informion ineligible for further review. Your resume. Limit your resume to no more than two pages. The USAJOBS dabase will not allow an applicant to submit an applicion th includes a resume over two pages. For resume writing guidance, please review the qualificions section of this announcement or the USAJobs Resource Center. Your responses to the job questionnaire. You directed to the online job questionnaire: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12996598 once you begin the applicion process for this position. Are you a current or former federal employee? Submit a copy of your most recent SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action th demonstres your eligibility for considerion, e.g., length of time you have been in your current grade; your highest grade held; your current promotion potential and proof of permanent appointment if applying based on an interchange agreement. Examples of approprie SF-50s include promotions, within-grade increases and accessions. It is your responsibility to verify th any informion entered or uploaded is received and is accure. Determining your eligibility and qualificions is dependent on the supporting documention and informion provided, which may impact your referral for further considerion. If a document is not legible, Human Resources will not be able to view it in your applicion. All applicion merials, including transcripts, must be in English. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section above by 11:59pm (EST) on 07/13/2026 or 11:59 PM eastern standard time on the de the applicion limit has been reached, whichever occurs first To begin, click the "Apply Online" button on the job announcement posting. Follow the directions to register or login if you have an existing account. Submit all required documents and complete the assessment questionnaire. Upon completion of your applicion, you will receive an acknowledgement email. If you are unable to apply online (e.g., experiencing documented system issues, you do not have access to the internet, etc.), you may be able to submit a paper applicion package. To do so, please contact the Human Resources Specialist listed in the Agency Contact Informion prior to the close of this announcement. Incentives may be offered depending on funding availability, the difficulty of positions to fill, and qualificions of applicants. Only resumes up to a total of two pages accepted. Applicants with resumes exceeding two pages removed from considerion. An employee, job applicant, or an individual acting on behalf of the employee, may request a Reasonable Accommodion by emailing fema-ocr-ra@fema.dhs.gov with "time sensitive" in the subject line. To review the common definitions of terms found in this announcement, please the DHS Common Definitions page. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention : During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus : Review your job stus on your Applicion Dashboard . Your applicion dashboard is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion Agency contact informion Amanda Tinsman amanda.tinsman@fema.dhs.gov Next steps If you are found qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for further considerion. The hiring manager will review the list of qualified candides and will conduct interviews. Failure to complete the interview may result in removal from considerion. If you are selected, you notified by phone or email with a tentive job offer. If you fail to respond, fail to meet the conditions of employment, or fail any other pre-employment requirements (such as the background investigion) we may rescind a tentive job offer. For informion on the federal employment applicion process, please the USA Jobs Help Center . Any Offers of employment made pursuant to this announcement consistent with all applicable authorities, including Presidential Memoranda, Executive Orders, interpretive U.S. Office of Personnel Management guidance and U.S. Office of Management and Budget plans and policies concerning hiring. These authorities are subject to change. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help Do not include photos, personally identifying informion (PII) (including birthday and social security numbers), or personal informion such as age, sex, medical history, etc. Resumes th include any of this informion ineligible for further review. Your resume. Limit your resume to no more than two pages. The USAJOBS dabase will not allow an applicant to submit an applicion th includes a resume over two pages. For resume writing guidance, please review the qualificions section of this announcement or the USAJobs Resource Center. Your responses to the job questionnaire. You directed to the online job questionnaire: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12996598 once you begin the applicion process for this position. Are you a current or former federal employee? Submit a copy of your most recent SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action th demonstres your eligibility for considerion, e.g., length of time you have been in your current grade; your highest grade held; your current promotion potential and proof of permanent appointment if applying based on an interchange agreement. Examples of approprie SF-50s include promotions, within-grade increases and accessions. It is your responsibility to verify th any informion entered or uploaded is received and is accure. Determining your eligibility and qualificions is dependent on the supporting documention and informion provided, which may impact your referral for further considerion. If a document is not legible, Human Resources will not be able to view it in your applicion. All applicion merials, including transcripts, must be in English. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section above by 11:59pm (EST) on 07/13/2026 or 11:59 PM eastern standard time on the de the applicion limit has been reached, whichever occurs first To begin, click the "Apply Online" button on the job announcement posting. Follow the directions to register or login if you have an existing account. Submit all required documents and complete the assessment questionnaire. Upon completion of your applicion, you will receive an acknowledgement email. If you are unable to apply online (e.g., experiencing documented system issues, you do not have access to the internet, etc.), you may be able to submit a paper applicion package. To do so, please contact the Human Resources Specialist listed in the Agency Contact Informion prior to the close of this announcement. Incentives may be offered depending on funding availability, the difficulty of positions to fill, and qualificions of applicants. Only resumes up to a total of two pages accepted. Applicants with resumes exceeding two pages removed from considerion. An employee, job applicant, or an individual acting on behalf of the employee, may request a Reasonable Accommodion by emailing fema-ocr-ra@fema.dhs.gov with "time sensitive" in the subject line. To review the common definitions of terms found in this announcement, please the DHS Common Definitions page. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention : During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus : Review your job stus on your Applicion Dashboard . Your applicion dashboard is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Amanda Tinsman amanda.tinsman@fema.dhs.gov Next steps If you are found qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for further considerion. The hiring manager will review the list of qualified candides and will conduct interviews. Failure to complete the interview may result in removal from considerion. If you are selected, you notified by phone or email with a tentive job offer. If you fail to respond, fail to meet the conditions of employment, or fail any other pre-employment requirements (such as the background investigion) we may rescind a tentive job offer. For informion on the federal employment applicion process, please the USA Jobs Help Center . Any Offers of employment made pursuant to this announcement consistent with all applicable authorities, including Presidential Memoranda, Executive Orders, interpretive U.S. Office of Personnel Management guidance and U.S. Office of Management and Budget plans and policies concerning hiring. These authorities are subject to change. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this month • Apply by 07/13/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 13, 2026 This job will close when we have received 100 applicions which may be sooner than the closing de. Locion MANY vacancies in the following locion: Locion Negotiable After Selection No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible No Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $51 - $66.30 per hour Pay scale & grade IM 3 Promotion potential None Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 76% or greer - You may be expected to travel for this position. In addition to frequent travel reled to deployments, occasional non-emergency travel may be required. Appointment type Intermittent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

AT-12996598-RSV

Control number 875033100