Director, Emergency Preparedness

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🐊 Florida – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

💵 $158.8k - $270k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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ICF

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1969

💼 Consulting

🏛️ Government

🏥 Healthcare

💰 $29M Grant on 2023-03

Consulting • Government • Healthcare

ICF is a global consulting firm founded over 55 years ago that partners with governments, businesses, and communities to deliver data-driven, technology-enabled solutions for complex public- and private-sector challenges. Its work areas include digital modernization, data analytics, resilience and adaptation, energy planning, federal health programs, disaster management, and infrastructure and transportation support. ICF provides consulting, program implementation, and advisory services to drive measurable outcomes and build community resilience.

📋 Description

• Lead 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 FEMA CPG 101, NIMS, and ICS • Conduct hazard, vulnerability, risk, and capability assessments • Coordinate planning across public, private, nonprofit, and community partners • Lead multi-year preparedness, training, and HSEEP-aligned exercise programs • Oversee exercise design, conduct, evaluation, hotwashes, after-action meetings, After-Action Reports, Improvement Plans, and corrective actions • Own portfolio performance across delivery quality, staffing, utilization, schedules, contracts, budgets, compliance, client satisfaction, and risk • Oversee on-call and task-order engagements and manage Project Managers and multidisciplinary teams • Serve in a leadership or advisory role during EOC activations and incident response operations • Apply ICS and NIMS to support situational awareness, resource management, action planning, documentation, executive briefings, and interagency coordination • Provide recommendations to executive leadership on preparedness, response, continuity, and recovery priorities • Grow the portfolio through 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 • Lead or oversee proposal development and submission and support go/no-go decisions • Serve as 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, staffing, proof points, pricing inputs, compliance, and proposal quality

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Emergency Management, Public Administration, Homeland Security, Public Health, Environmental Science, Business, or a related field • 7+ years of combined emergency management and FEMA-related experience, including 3+ years in a leadership or client-facing capacity • 3+ years of direct experience managing multiple clients, projects, Project Managers, or multidisciplinary teams • 3+ years of direct experience developing, updating, implementing, or validating Emergency Operations Plans, continuity plans, annexes, procedures, or emergency management programs • 3+ years of direct experience in emergency planning, preparedness, Emergency Operations Center activations, incident management, training, or exercises • 3+ years of experience managing project or program budgets, schedules, staffing, contracts, client relationships, and delivery risks • Willingness and ability to travel by air and vehicle, with anticipated travel up to 50% • Valid current U.S. driver's license and ability to pass a Motor Vehicle Records check • Advanced knowledge of FEMA CPG 101, EOPs, ESF and hazard-specific annexes, COOP/COG plans, crisis communications plans, SOPs, EOC procedures, and field or position guides • Advanced experience managing the full HSEEP exercise cycle • Experience training exercise planners, facilitators, controllers, evaluators, EOC staff, or partner agencies • Experience managing preparedness grants, grant-funded initiatives, accreditation requirements, audit readiness, or compliance activities • Experience with on-call, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, master services, or task-order contract structures • Experience managing multiple concurrent clients, project teams, and delivery priorities • Experience developing client relationships and supporting capture, proposal, recompete, and account-growth activities • Experience presenting to executive leaders, elected or appointed officials, boards, regulators, community partners, or public-sector clients • Preferred training includes ICS-100, ICS-200, ICS-300, ICS-400, IS-700, IS-800, FEMA HSEEP training, Continuity Excellence Series Level I or II, PMP, and FEMA Professional Development Series or equivalent coursework • Strategic leadership across preparedness, continuity, response, recovery, mitigation, and resilience • Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, facilitation, negotiation, writing, and presentation capabilities • Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, manage competing priorities, address risks early, and deliver high-quality work under deadlines in a remote, highly collaborative environment across time zones • Executive-level communication and relationship management • Working knowledge of the Stafford Act, 44 CFR Part 206, FEMA Public Assistance policy, NIMS, and ICS • Proficiency in portfolio, project, budget, contract, staffing, utilization, grant, quality, and compliance management • Business development, account growth, capture strategy, proposal development, and competitive intelligence capabilities

🏖️ Benefits

• Nationwide remote work • Equal opportunity employment • Reasonable accommodations for disabilities, disabled veterans, and sincerely held religious beliefs • Confidential accommodation support • Full-time employment