Emergency Management Specialist (CEMA) - Training, Exercise and EOC Readiness

Emergency Management Specialist (CEMA) - Training, Exercise and EOC Readiness - (260000FD)

Salary: $52,286 - $78,416

Position Grade: 210G

Department:
City Emergency Management Agency

Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1713

Location:

Downtown
- St. Louis, MO

The Emergency Management Specialist
- Training, Exercise & EOC Readiness builds and sustains the systematic preparedness program that ensures the City of St. Louis is trained, exercised, and ready before the next disaster occurs. This position designs, delivers, and documents a multi-year, HSEEP-compliant training and exercise program for CEMA and all city departments; leads the after-action review and corrective action process for every exercise and real-world incident;

manages CEMA’s role in the regional Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program; and manages the steady-state readiness of the City’s Emergency Operations Center, ensuring the facility, its systems, and its assigned personnel can transition from cold status to full operational capability without delay.

This position is subject to emergency recall and extended-hour operations during activations, exercises, and special events, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

• Designs, develops, delivers, and documents a multi-year training program for CEMA staff, city department heads, EOC-assigned personnel, and operational partners, aligned to the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the National Qualification System (NQS).
• Conducts citywide IC(N)
  S/NIMS training, ensuring every department head, supervisor, and key employee understands their emergency role before the next activation — not during it.
• Develops position-specific training, job aids, and position qualification pathways for all EOC positions, establishing a documented credentialing standard for EOC assignment.
• Coordinates joint training delivery with St. Louis Fire Department certified instructors, SEMA, FEMA/EMI, and regional partners under existing and future memoranda of agreement.
• Maintains complete training records sufficient to satisfy EMAP Standard 4.10, federal grant requirements, and NIMS compliance reporting.

• Designs, plans, conducts, and evaluates a progressive, multi-year exercise program compliant with the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP), including seminars, tabletops, functional exercises, and full-scale exercises.
• Develops exercise scenarios grounded in the City’s THIRA, hazard-specific annexes, and real-world incident history, in coordination with the Chief Planner.
• Recruits and manages external evaluators and SEMA/FEMA facilitation for major exercises to ensure independent evaluation of CEMA-designed events.
• Coordinates CEMA participation in state, regional, and federal exercises, including those sponsored by SEMA, FEMA, DHS, and UASI partners.
• Integrates exercise play with special event preparedness for major planned events, validating incident action planning, unified command, and EOC processes under realistic conditions.

• Manages CEMA’s role in the regional Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program, serving as the agency’s CERT program point of contact and representing the City of St. Louis in regional CERT coordination with St. Louis County, SEMA, and area partner jurisdictions.
• Coordinates recruitment, scheduling, and delivery of CERT Basic Training for city residents, leveraging Fire Department instructors, regional training partners, and CEMA staff under existing and future agreements.
• Maintains CERT volunteer rosters, training records, and credentialing documentation, ensuring volunteers are identified, qualified, and contactable for activation in accordance with program standards and applicable volunteer liability protections.
• Integrates CERT volunteers into the City’s exercise program and planned special events in appropriate support roles, ensuring volunteers train alongside the professional responders they will augment.
• Aligns CERT capabilities with the City’s whole-community preparedness mission, coordinating with the…