FLSA Status: Non-ExemptSafety Sensitive: NO Level II Screening: NO
Under the direction of the Emergency Manager of the City of Fort Myers, the purpose of the internship is for students majoring in Emergency Management, Public Safety, or related field to receive on-the-job exposure and experience to explore career options, apply academic knowledge and skills to the workplace, gain career skills, build resumes, network with emergency management professionals. This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
While working, interns will:
- Complete National Incident Management System (NIMS) training and additional FEMA training.
- Attend meetings with stakeholders within the community.
- Prepare for and/or participate in exercises (tabletop, functional, or full-scale).
- Learn about the role of municipal government as it relates to county, state and federal partners.
- Assist with the coordination of outreach programs.
- Complete real-world projects
Students assigned to this Emergency Management Intern classification may perform both routine duties and non-routine support duties as the nature of the area of work and studies assigned. Emphasis is placed on providing varied, meaningful learning experiences to the student, while at the same time providing work assistance to the City.
Responsibilities and Reporting During an Emergency Situation:
Essential Employees may be required to work during a declared emergency. Depending on the nature of the emergency, this may require working around the clock for several days on short notice.
Non-Essential Employees will not be required to work during a declared emergency. The employee’s Department Head will determine when the employee will be required to work.
- Provide analytical, technical, and administrative assistance on emergency management assignments. Assignments may involve exercise design and development, preparing incident action plans for events, editing emergency management documents and conducting public information and outreach.
- Assist staff with day-to-day operations.
- Research assignments and special projects
- Attend meetings or community events.
- Complete projects.
- Performs basic administrative duties including written reports, memorandums, letters and electronic correspondence, interaction with the public and communication through telephone and meetings.
- May provide customer service to the public.
- May provide work that involves the use of technical skills or the use of professional and semi-independent judgement in completing job tasks within given parameters.
- This position requires regular and reliable attendance and the employee’s physical presence at the workplace.
- Perform related duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Knowledge of Geographic Information System (GIS)
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Word, Publisher, Excel and PowerPoint software).
- Knowledge of current office systems technology and associated support systems.
- Skill in working both independently as well as in a collaborative environment.
- Skill in Detail-oriented while possessing excellent writing skills to prepare reports and briefings, oral communication skills, and analytical research skills.
- Strong teamwork and customer service skills.
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Strong time-management skills, project management skills.
- Skill in use of standard office computer equipment and software applications.
- Ability to make decisions recognizing established precedents and practices and to use resourcefulness and act in solving new problems.
- Ability to exercise judgement and discretion in applying and interpreting department rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
- Ability to plan and organize time effectively.
- Ability to speak clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
- Ability to operate necessary equipment, including computer, calculator, copier, etc.
- Must be actively enrolled and attending an accredited college/university.
- This position is best suited for undergraduates, graduate students, or recent graduates with a background in emergency management, homeland security, public safety, public administration, intelligence studies, international/national security, disaster planning, political science, or related fields.
- Candidates should possess a GPA of 2.5 or higher to be considered.
PREFERED REQUIREMENTS:
- Previous office experience is preferred but not required.
This work typically requires the following physical activities to be performed.
Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
Climbing – ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
Standing – for sustained periods of time.
Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word
Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
Fingering – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.
Work performed is primarily:
Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
- Contact with internal and external customers, and outside agencies.
- May be required to work hours other than the regular schedule including evening, weekend, holidays and during emergencies
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions described herein. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.
