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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Local Hire (IT Specialist) - **Company:** Federal Emergency Management Agency - **Location:** Pine Ridge, SD, United States - **Salary:** $60,882.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** System Configuration, Network Connections, Network Routers, Network Server - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/28054475/Local-Hire-It-Specialist-Any-Pine-Ridge-7323 ## About the Role * You must be a U.S. citizen to be considered for this position. * You must successfully pass a background investigation. * Selective service registration is required for males born after 12/31/59. * All candidates must be a high school graduate or possess a GED. * Minimum age of eighteen years of age is required. * Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements., To qualify for this Local Hire (IT Specialist) position, you must possess experience: * Installing, configuring, and/or troubleshooting LAN components such as routers, hubs, switches, and servers. * Conducting routine troubleshooting and maintaining communication lines and equipment. Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application: * Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position * Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates 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. Are you qualifying based on your work experience? * Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the . If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the occupational series, grade level, and dates in which you held each grade level. * Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE)? To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, 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 information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found "not qualified." * Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills, and provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience., Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from . ## Description In this Local Hire (IT Specialist) position, you will support end users by providing hands-on technical assistance to resolve hardware and software incidents. Typical assignments include: * Creating tests, labels and running cables in accordance with the design plans. * Updating workstations based on operational requirements. * Assisting in the establishment of network connectivity. * Performing initial setup and configuration of customer hardware and software. * Analyzing, investigating, and resolving assigned Help Desk tickets. What else do I need to know? This announcement is for a position as a FEMA Local Hire. Local Hire employees help FEMA respond to, recover from and mitigate hazards by performing a variety of emergency management functions which are not limited to disaster survivor assistance, conducting and verifying damage assessments, and providing administrative, financial and logistical support. Local Hires are Temporary Positions. The Local Hire 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. Appointments under this authority within FEMA are made to the excepted service and are nonpermanent in nature. A local hire's term of employment is 120 days. 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