Disaster Preparedness Program Representative - Albany; NY-HELPS

Disaster Preparedness Program Representative 3 – Albany (NY-HELPS)

Position:
Disaster Preparedness Program Representative 3

Location:

Albany, NY

Base pay range: $86,681.00/yr – $/yr

• Supervises an emergency response, planning, or recovery unit in main office and / or administers programs in a regional assignment.
• Plans, organizes, and conducts training for first responders.
• Plans strategies and develops procedures for implementing training exercises.
• Confers with client agencies to assess current training requirements.
• Identifies, prepares, and implements emergency response training exercise plans potential terrorist activities involving weapons of mass destruction, and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive situations.
• Develops and organizes disaster preparedness training exercises for earthquakes, hurricanes, radiological preparedness, recovery, and use of emergency response geographic information systems.
• Collects and analyzes, qualitatively and quantitatively, data from instructional and exercise activities to determine the efficacy of current training practices.
• Functions as technical expert on training standards development as related to personal protective equipment and operating in a live environment.
• Provides technical planning assistance to local government agencies in the development of a variety of disaster preparedness and emergency response plans.
• Creates or directs subordinate staff to produce plans for use by local sites.
• Provides written comments/recommendations on local plans submitted to the State for review.
• Provides guidance to regional staff on plan concepts, regulatory review, and generally accepted disaster preparedness and response standards and practices.
• Coordinates planning concepts with other state agencies to ensure unity of purpose and consistency in planning practices and mission.
• Directs, manages, and supervises the activities of a planning unit.
• Directs staff on all planning projects, including assigning work to staff, reviewing work products, and setting priorities and project completion dates.
• Represents the agency in internal and external multi‑agency planning meetings or presentations and serves as a lead to provide input for various planning reports, audits, or accreditation.
• Performs the full range of supervisory responsibilities.
• Suggests input for the creation and implementation of emergency preparedness and planning executive policies.
• Supervises disaster response and operations activities.
• Serves as the primary contact on disaster related recovery programs and serves as a resource for State and local agencies, and communities seeking disaster recovery assistance.
• Writes, edits, updates the daily and emergency activation policies, procedures, checklists, and contingency plans for operations.
• Supervises the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of tactical information regarding emergency and non‑emergency situations.
• Liaisons with internal and external sources, including multiple State agencies, regional staff, and local governments to collect incident information.
• Analyzes and reviews information, and supervises the presentation of the data for executive, field staff, and multiple agency situational reporting that includes conference calls, internal meetings, and briefings.
• Supervises emergency and non‑emergency information updates to the statewide incident management system.

Ability to initiate and maintain relationships across a diverse set of stakeholders.

Certified AED / CPR Trainer.

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NY HELPS Non‑Competitive

Minimum Qualifications:

• Seven years of emergency management experience coordinating and implementing emergency management and disaster preparedness programs; preparation or modification of disaster plans; preparing, modifying, and presenting of disaster educational training and/or exercises; gathering and analyzing information to produce briefings or reports or to make timely and effective incident response decisions; representing an agency or organization in an Emergency Operations Center or leadership position on the Incident Command System;
  
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