Region 6 Verify As You Go (VAYGO)Team/Grants/Audits
08/2022 - Current
- Formulating and implementing the objectives, plans, programs and procedures pertaining to all aspects of Public Assistance Program including disaster grants.
- Managing project worksheets, and financial spend plans concerning the execution of operations.
- Collecting and evaluating Public Assistance progress reports from the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act (IPERA) and the Validate As You Go (VAYGo) initiative.
- Applying laws, regulations, and policies in the Public Assistance Grant Program;
- Applying application and delivery of Public Assistance Grant Program ; and
- Communicating findings both verbally and written to stakeholders both internally and externally.
Region 6 Post Award Support Team (Closeout) - 11/2020 - 8/2022
- Collecting, organizing, and reviewing Applicant-submitted documentation in support of Public Assistance grants.
- Identifying potential eligibility issues and addressing those issues in coordination with leadership.
- Conducting quality assurance reviews of grants to ensure accuracy, compliance, and proper supporting documentation.
- Applying analytical and evaluative methods to issues or studies concerning the efficiency and effectiveness of program operations.
- Applying and interpreting laws, regulations, and policies related to disaster recovery programs.
- Developing correspondence based on research material, legal analysis and/or regulations.
- Negotiating issues among parties with differing interests to gain agreement on changes affecting a program .
- Managing multiple projects or activities to completion. Conducting independent quantitative and qualitative analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of program operations
COVID-19 Funeral Registration Intake, Strategic Workforce Augmentation Team (SWAT) - Registration Intake - 4/2021
- The Disaster Assistance Center Call Center Registration Intake (DAC Call Center RI)
- Answering calls for Disaster Assistance and completing applications
DR4586TX - Texas Severe Winter Storms - Strategic Workforce Augmentation Team (SWAT) - Registration Intake - 3/2021
- The Disaster Assistance Center Call Center Registration Intake (DAC Call Center RI)
- Answering calls for Disaster Assistance and completing applications
DR4332TX - Houston, TX - Program Delivery Manager (PDMG) - 4/2019 - 11/2020
- Managing recovery programs and projects; to include site inspections, summarizing damages, communicating requirements for assistance, managing applicant expectations, and using FEMA’s delivery model to track projects.
- Providing management with short-range and long-range recommendations that extend from management analysis studies, with particular emphasis on the anticipated value of planned changes.
- Justifying decisions, conclusions, findings or recommendations.
- Using customer service skills to facilitate the delivery of all aspects of the Public Assistance program to applicants; to include applying policy and procedure to damage assessments, disaster surveys, and public assistance recovery operations
- Providing advice and recommendations regarding program planning and funding management issues; interpreting broad policy and program directives; and making recommendations of time-phasing of planning actions along with any acquisition management actions.
- Coordinating with stakeholders on emergency management initiatives; to include participating in informational meetings and gatherings to the general public to communicate program eligibility requirements to larger audiences.
- Providing senior leadership with program evaluation results that are utilized in the resource management process for greater program effectiveness.
- Managing multiple projects or activities to completion. Conducting independent quantitative and qualitative analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of program operations