Disaster Response Planning - Reservist (On Call)
$67,355–$114,503 year
On-siteReston, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Lead Planning Section leadership or unit-level roles supporting disaster response, recovery, preparedness, and resilience operations. Develop Incident Action Plans (IAP), contingency plans, and operational documentation while collecting, analyzing, and disseminating incident information to support decision-making. Maintain situational awareness, coordinate information flow among incident leadership and external stakeholders, and manage resource tracking and accountability. Produce situation reports, dashboards, and briefings for Emergency Operations Centers and Incident Management Teams. Participate in planning meetings, operational briefings, and after-action activities. Work flexible schedules including evenings, weekends, and holidays with national deployment readiness.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional experience in emergency management, disaster response, preparedness, public sector government, military or related fields
- 2+ years of professional experience actual response in incident management, emergency operations, or emergency planning functions
- 2+ years of professional experience gathering, organizing, analyzing, and communicating operational information and data
- 2+ years of professional experience producing reports, plans, briefings, documentation, or decision-support products
- Completion of FEMA/NIMS ICS courses: 100, 200, 700, 800
- Must have a valid U.S. driver's license and successfully pass a Motor Vehicle Records (MVR) check
- Must be willing and able to travel, both flight and vehicle, with short notice; inclusive of deployment nationally, hours including evenings and weekends in rapidly changing operational environments
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Emergency Management, Homeland Security, Public Administration, Urban Planning, GIS, Public Policy, Business Administration, Environmental Sciences, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience working within an Emergency Operations Center or similar environment
- Experience in supporting planning processes, including action, strategic, preparedness or contingency planning
- Experience working with federal, state, tribal territorial or local government partners
- Completion of FEMA/NIMS ICS courses: 300, 400
- Planning Section Chief level role: Deployment experience in the PSC role and ICS Training, including E/G/L 0191 and E/L 0962, Type 1-3 experience
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