Cadres are groups of employees organized by type of work. These groups are based on skills and experience and play a key role in keeping FEMA ready to deploy the right people to the right jobs quickly in disaster response and recovery operations.
The Acquisitions (ACQ) cadre provides timely, full-range purchase and procurement services in support of disaster operations. ACQ reviews program requirement requests to determine the most appropriate and effective contractual approach, publicizes requirements to offerors, evaluates proposals to determine technically acceptable solutions, legally enters the agency into contractual agreements for goods or services, monitors and measures contractor performance, and closes contracts.
The Civil Rights (CVR) cadre supports the FEMA mission by ensuring that, as an agency, we sustain our commitment to equal and civil rights by preventing discrimination in assistance to survivors and providing programs, services, and benefits to employees and survivors without discrimination. CVR Advisors analyze data to provide guidance on Title VI (non-discrimination) to FEMA program areas and leadership, ensuring compliance with applicable civil rights statutes, while also performing risk analysis throughout all phases of the disaster cycle. CVR also participates in community outreach and engagement to share information and learn more about barriers being experienced by disaster survivors and their communities. Through this and other work, FEMA is better able to provide equal access to its programs for disaster survivors before, during, and after disasters.
The Disability Integration (DI) cadre deploys to disaster sites to support the integration of individuals with disabilities into all FEMA programs and activities. DI achieves this by engaging state, local, tribal, and territorial partners, working collaboratively with stakeholder organizations, and by providing technical assistance and advice to FEMA leadership.
The Disaster Emergency Communications (DEC) cadre deploys, installs, operates, maintains, and protects telecommunications and operations assets in response to all-hazards disasters and in support of planned special events. They install maintain and protect telecommunications equipment, facilitate interoperable communications, and aid in evaluating post-disaster communication needs.
The Disaster Field Training Operations (DFTO) cadre is a professional team of communicators that specialize in all things training. The cadre works throughout FEMA to improve employee performance through training.
The Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) cadre is the "boots on the ground" Cadre. DSA establishes a timely presence at every disaster, primarily focusing on addressing the needs of disaster survivors by collecting targeted information to support leadership and operational decision-making, providing accessible, in-person case-specific information and referrals, providing referrals to whole community partners, as needed, and identifying disability-inclusive public information needs so strategic messaging can be developed and disseminated.
The External Affairs (EA) cadre engages stakeholders in Congress; the media; state, local, tribal, and territorial governments; the private sector; and internal FEMA employees during incidents and steady state. EA provides the information necessary to make informed decisions as we work together to build, sustain, and improve our national capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
The Field Leadership Cadre (Federal Coordinating Officers, Chiefs of Staff, Analytics Advisor, Executive Specialists) leads the federal response and recovery effort and is responsible for assuring that all federal assistance is provided in accordance with the Presidential Disaster Declaration, laws, regulations, agreements and policies. The Cadre makes initial appraisals of types of relief most urgently needed, establishes necessary field offices, and coordinates the response, recovery and mitigation support to state and local governments, and nonprofit and relief organizations.
As responsible stewards of federal resources, the Field Leadership Cadre applies data and analysis to drive responsive decision making to reduce the administrative and bureaucratic burdens that imped impacted individuals and communities from quickly receiving the assistance they need. The Field Leadership Cadre uses the Outcome Driven Recovery process that promotes unity of effort among all stakeholders to identify recovery needs, visions, goals, and comprehensive solutions. This approach supports state, local, tribal, and territorial governments in developing the capability to plan for, manage, and execute community-based and holistic long-term recovery solutions.
The Division deals with all legislative and constitutional matters relating to Union territories except UT of Jammu and Kashmir and UT of Ladakh which is dealt by Department of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh Affairs, including the National Capital Territory of Delhi. It also functions as the cadre controlling authority of the Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre of Indian Administrative Service (IAS)/Indian Police Service (IPS) as also Delhi-Andaman and Nicobar Island Civil Service (DANICS)/Delhi-Andaman and Nicobar Island Police Service (DANIPS). Besides, it is responsible for overseeing the crime and law and order situation in UTs.
Note : Above Seniority lists were prepared in the year 2014. Thereafter, the Board has promoted many officers/employees in different cadres and fresh recruitment was also undertaken. Accordingly, fresh seniority lists are being prepared by the Board and the same will be displayed on the website in due course of time.
(a) "appointing authority" in relation to any Grade means the authority empowered under the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965, to make appointments to that Grade;
(i) in respect of an officer recruited directly to that grade, period or periods of regular service rendered in that grade, including period or periods of absence during which he would have held a post on regular basis in that grade but for his being on leave or otherwise not being available to hold such post, from the first day of July of the year, following the year in which the examination for direct recruitment was held;
(ii) in respect of an officer recruited to that grade through departmental examination, period or periods of regular service rendered in that grade, including period or periods of absence during which he would have held a post on regular basis in that grade but for his being on leave or otherwise not being available to hold such post, from the first day of July of the year for vacancies of which such examination was held;
(iii) in respect of an officer recruited to that grade on the basis of length of service in the lower grade, period or periods of regular service rendered in that grade, including period or periods of absence during which he would have held a post on regular basis in that grade but for his being on leave or otherwise not being available to hold such post, from the first day of July of the year for which the recruitment was made:
Provided that where there is delay of more than 90 days in joining on appointment, in any of the cases mentioned in the sub clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above, such delay should not be due to any fault on the part of the officer:
(e) "cadre" means the group of posts in the Grades of Section Officer and Assistant in any of the Ministries or Offices specified in column (2) of the First Schedule and in all the Offices specified against such Ministry or Office in column (3) of that Schedule;
(hh) "Common seniority list" in relation to any Grade means the seniority list of officers of that Grade serving in all the cadres specified in the First Schedule as on the appointed day and revised from time to time in accordance with the regulations to be framed in this behalf by the Central Government in the $Department of Personnel and Training in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions;
(l) "long-term appointment" means appointment for an indefinite period as distinguished from a purely temporary or ad-hoc appointment, like appointment against a leave or other local vacancy of a specified duration;
(oo) "range of seniority" in relation to any grade means the range specified by the Central Government in the $Department of Personnel and Training in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions in the common seniority list for that grade for additions to Select List or for temporary promotions, as the case may be;
+(ooo)"regular officer", in relation to any grade, means a person who has been appointed against a regular vacancy either through direct recruitment or through promotion from Select List and who has completed the period of probation or trial, as the case may be, under Rule 15 to the satisfaction of the appointing authority;
4. Combined Gradation List of Officers of the Selection Grade and Grade I.- There shall be a single combined gradation list in respect of the officers of the Selection Grade and Grade I for all the Ministries or Offices specified in column (2) of the First Schedule and for the Offices specified against such Ministries or Offices in column (3) of that Schedule.
*6. The authorised cadre strength of the Service.- (1) The authorised cadre strength of various Grades shall be such as may be determined, from time to time, by the Central Government.
7. Exclusion of duty posts from the cadre.- Except in the case of the Selection Grade or Grade I of the Service, any duty post in a Grade may be declared by the cadre authority, with the concurrence of the Central Government in the $Department of Personnel and Training in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions to be excluded from the Cadre -
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