EM Analyst, SNS

Position Overview

If you're looking to be a part of a collaborative environment where your skills can make an impact, explore our current opportunities in creating a better future for public health.

About Harris County Public Health:

Harris County Public Health (HCPH) includes a network of more than 1,100 public health professionals working together to improve health outcomes for the third most populous county in the United States. HCPH provides a multitude of services such as medical and dental services, community programming, and health education for the approximately 2.3 million people in unincorporated Harris County. Through its core values of innovation, engagement, and health equity, HCPH strives to bring meaningful solutions to public health issues while keeping Harris County healthy and vibrant.

Our Values:

HCPH embraces a foundation of progressive work anchored by the department's cornerstone values guiding our work to improve the community's health and well-being.

• Transparency: We share information openly and honestly so that staff, partners, and the community understand our actions and the reasons behind them.
• Integrity: Our actions reflect strong ethical principles, ensuring we remain trustworthy, accountable, and consistent with our mission.
• Respect: We foster a supportive environment by valuing diverse perspectives, listening intentionally, and treating people with dignity in every interaction.
• Impact: We focus our efforts on activities that improve health, reduce disparities, and create meaningful, measurable outcomes for the communities we serve.
• Collaboration: We actively partner across teams, disciplines, organizations, and communities to align our efforts toward common goals.

This is a grant-funded position.

Position Overview:

Under the supervision of the PHP Operations Manager in the Public Health Preparedness & Response (PHPR) Division, the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Emergency Management (EM) Analyst will lead the planning, development, and implementation of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Program in alignment with the Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) grant. This analyst will adopt a whole-community approach and collaborate closely with department staff and external stakeholders on preparedness planning, training, and exercising to respond to and recover from public health emergencies.

The analyst will play a lead role in responding to public health emergencies, including disease outbreaks, chemical and radiological incidents, and those involving the SNS.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) plans, standard operating procedures (SOPs), standard operating guides (SOGs), and other documents to support a public health response, ensuring that plans align with federal, state, regional, and local requirements and are coordinated with partners. Develop and maintain distribution and dispensing strategies, including Points of Dispensing (PODs) and other methods for rapidly delivering medical countermeasures (MCMs) to affected populations.
• Serve as a liaison to external partners, including county departments, emergency management and response agencies, industry partners, academic institutions, and Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPC), for SNS-related planning, coordination, and response activities.
• Develop and maintain partnerships and operational agreements necessary to support SNS and public health emergency response activities. Coordinate with stakeholders to establish roles, responsibilities, resource commitments, and response procedures.
• Coordinate the resources, logistics, and technology requirements needed to support dispensing and distribution of MCMs during public health emergencies, including identifying resource needs, supporting resource requests and procurement, coordinating transportation and distribution requirements, and assisting with the management and allocation of MCMs and SNS assets. Develop, implement, and maintain electronic systems, databases, tracking tools, and other technology solutions to support SNS planning, inventory management, resource tracking, partner coordination, dispensing operations,…