Director, Emergency Preparedness - Remote

ICF's Disaster Management Division seeks a Director, Emergency Preparedness to lead high-impact emergency management programs, strengthen client readiness, and help communities prepare for and navigate complex disasters.
This Remote U.S. role combines technical preparedness leadership, portfolio delivery, client partnership, and business growth, with nationwide travel up to 50%.

The Director will lead all-hazards planning, continuity, training and exercises, capability assessment, stakeholder coordination, and emergency operations support. The role also oversees multiple clients and teams, advances delivery quality and financial performance, and serves as a subject matter expert for strategic pursuits and proposals.

This is an opportunity for an experienced emergency management leader to shape resilient programs, guide multidisciplinary teams, and build trusted relationships with public-sector clients nationwide.

• Lead the development and maintenance of all-hazards Emergency Operations Plans, Emergency Support Function and hazard-specific annexes, continuity plans, crisis communications plans, EOC procedures, SOPs, field guides, and job aids.
• Ensure plans align with federal, state, and local requirements and recognized guidance, including FEMA CPG 101, NIMS, and IC.
• Conduct hazard, vulnerability, risk, and capability assessments, and coordinate planning across public, private, nonprofit, and community partners.

• Lead integrated, multi-year preparedness, training, and HSEEP-aligned exercise programs, including seminars, workshops, drills, tabletop, functional, and full-scale exercises.
• Oversee exercise design, conduct, and evaluation, including objectives, scenarios, plans, manuals, MSELs, evaluation guides, briefings, and supporting materials.
• Facilitate hotwashes and after-action meetings; deliver After-Action Reports and Improvement Plans; and track corrective actions through completion.

• Own portfolio performance across delivery quality, staffing, utilization, schedules, contracts, budgets, compliance, client satisfaction, and risk.
• Oversee on-call and task-order engagements, manage Project Managers and multidisciplinary teams, and establish clear standards, controls, reporting, and accountability.
• Identify and address delivery, compliance, staffing, financial, and client-retention risks while maintaining applicable FEMA, grant, contract, quality, and audit requirements.

• Serve in a leadership or advisory role during EOC activations and incident response operations.
• Apply IC and NIMS to support situational awareness, resource management, action planning, documentation, executive briefings, and interagency coordination.
• Provide timely recommendations to executive leadership on preparedness, response, continuity, and recovery priorities.

• Grow the portfolio through existing-client expansion, add-on task orders, recompetes, and target-market pursuits.
• Build senior relationships with emergency management agencies, Public Assistance grant recipients, and preparedness and resilience stakeholders.
• Gather market and competitive intelligence and collaborate with portfolio, service line, capture, and technical leaders to advance growth objectives.

• Lead or oversee proposal development and submission for assigned pursuits and support go/no-go decisions as required.
• Serve as a subject matter expert, solution architect, reviewer, and technical contributor on major emergency management and preparedness pursuits.
• Partner with capture and growth teams on win strategy, competitive positioning