Emergency Management Specialist

Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Emergency Management Specialist to join our team! In this role you will perform integrated, multidisciplinary assessments that evaluate the survivability of critical U.S. Air Force mission systems, infrastructures, and assets.

The Air Force Mission Assurance Assessment Team requires highly specialized technical, analytical, and investigative support services to develop and conduct comprehensive assessments of an installation and/or facility.

This challenging and exciting work provides the opportunity to travel CONUS and OCONUS to the most important Air Force systems and critical infrastructure, ensuring the survivability of any threat or attack. It offers experience traveling worldwide and protecting mission‑critical infrastructure.

• Conduct assessments of emergency management (EM), chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological, and high‑yield explosives (CBRNE), and continuity of operations (COOP) programs to protect personnel, critical assets, and missions from hazards and threats that may affect the installation, facility, or asset.
• Conduct assessments of COOP programs, supporting materials and services (supply chain), EM plans; CBRN and HAZMAT preparedness and survivability; and force health protection to protect personnel and assets from hazards and threats.
• Understand policies, plans, procedures, training, equipment, organization, and response management for a wide variety of emergencies including natural disasters, technological and human accidents (to include fire), and hostile incidents.
• Identify all aspects of emergency‑management specialist vulnerabilities, increase customer awareness of potential vulnerabilities, and impact on mission execution capability, providing recommendations to mitigate or eliminate identified vulnerabilities.
• Recommend methods to reduce vulnerabilities and improve response capabilities and evaluate the site/facility COOP capability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from various mission‑threatening emergencies.

• 7+ years of related experience
• Professional certification in emergency management or business continuity, and training, experience or certification in HAZMAT or CBRNE areas
• Knowledge of DoD EM risk‑management processes such as all‑hazards threat assessment (AHTA) and capability assessment methodology
• Understanding of Pre‑Assessment, Assessment, and Post‑Assessment phase activities, including Mission Analysis, Pre‑Site Survey (PSS) work, onsite vulnerability and risk assessments, Post Analysis, report writing, and MAJCOM follow‑up
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• Ability to travel up to 25% per year
• Valid U.S. passport

• Ability to conduct assessments
• Provide specific SME assistance to Technical Support Projects (TSPs)
• Experience and proficiency in all aspects of COOP, business continuity, operations planning, and emergency‑management and CBRNE plans and programs, including incident response and consequence management, mass warning and notification, and support agreements
• Knowledge of Air Force COOP, business continuity, operations planning, emergency management, and CBRNE plans and programs, policies, incident response, consequence management, mass warning and notification, and support agreements
• Capacity to learn supply‑chain and force health protection program areas and fluency in DoD, Service, CCMD, Agency, or Field Activity policies, directives, guidance, and instructions related to the four key protection programs assessed

An active Top Secret security clearance is required for this position.

Salary Range: $86,700.00 - $

Parsons is an equal‑opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

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