LITTLE ROCK — With 77 percent of the Federal Emergency Management Agency  workforce in the field supporting 64 disasters nationwide, the agency continues to grow its workforce to bolster recovery activities underway in the states and U.S. territories.

In partnership with the State of Arkansas, FEMA is hiring workers across the state for a variety of jobs necessary to help support residents and communities recovering from recent severe storms and flooding.

Those hired locally are often disaster survivors themselves who want to help their fellow citizens in the recovery process. They will join the recovery team of local, state and federal workers, voluntary agencies and community organizations already in place. Through these temporary local employees, FEMA gains valuable community insights, provides jobs and puts Arkansans to work helping Arkansas.     MORE