Responsibilities:• Assist clients in developing or updating their emergency plans and procedures, including incorporation of response and recovery issues into their planning efforts. Be flexible enough to help design and deliver this assistance in a variety of ways, ranging from facilitating clients through the planning process to direct plan writing assistance.
• Assist clients in developing or updating their emergency management training programs, to include not only helping deliver existing training courses but also be able to support the development of specific training for EOC positions.
• Ensure that plans and procedures developed by IEM for clients are consistent with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) to include the principles of the Incident Command System (ICS) and the National Response Framework (NRF) as appropriate, as well as other appropriate federal, state, or locally accepted legal/regulatory requirements or guidance.
• Be proficient in the concepts and the use of ICS in multiple instances. Such as in the field as well as translating those principles into an EOC environment.
• Effectively represent emergency management and homeland security needs on a variety of IEM projects from the user perspective to ensure that IEM products and services delivered to those users meets client expectations.

Required Skills:• Functional usage of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Good listening skills – ability to identify critical customer needs.
• Demonstrated oral communication skills – ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences, adjust presentation to audience, and speak comfortably in front of wide group of emergency management personnel.
• Practical experience facilitating a variety of stakeholders at the city, county, and/or state level to achieve defined objectives.
• Ability to quickly research federal and state regulatory bases for programs, guidance, and technical materials, condense and analyze the information, then use it to devise models for application in operational environments, as well as facilitation of that application with the client.
• Ability to organize and write clear, concise technical reports for delivery to customers.
• Practical experience in development of strategies and plans for response to terrorism, natural, and technological hazards at the city, county, and/or state level. Familiarity with current requirements, guidance, and practices.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, changing environment with individuals from diverse areas of specialization.
• Ability to efficiently apply existing knowledge as well as assimilate new material quickly and apply it across a broad range of projects.
• Ability to manage multiple, concurrent tasks.
• Demonstrated project management or team leadership skills.

Qualifications:• Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree preferred. Degree in emergency/disaster management, public safety, or related field preferred.
• Minimum twelve (12) years experience related to emergency management or emergency response operations.
• At least six (8) years experience in emergency planning at a city, county, or state (population exceeding 200,000 people desired).
• Experience with developing Incident Command System processes and procedures
• Experience in developing and implementing Incident Command System (ICS) training
• Must have completed IS-100, 200, 300 and 400
• Primary authorship of an approved emergency or homeland security plan, standard operating procedures, or standard operating guidelines currently in use in a county, city, or state.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of the federal legal/regulatory basis for current emergency management and homeland security initiatives and programs.
• Ability and willingness to travel for business and to deploy to support disaster response/recovery operations for periods of up to 30 days.
• Ability to obtain security clearance required.