Emergency Management Associate/Specialist

Emergency Management Associate Position Summary

Under direct supervision, the Emergency Management Associate Specialist supports the Denver Water preparedness and resilience initiative. The overall goal of the Emergency Management Associate Specialist is to assist in ensuring that the organization is prepared for, mitigates against, responds to, and recovers from natural, human-caused, and technological emergencies and/or disasters that may impact the water system.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position does not have formal supervisory responsibilities over other employees.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

- Support Denver Water’s various emergency plans to ensure they meet local, state, and federal requirements and assist in the development of policies and procedures.

- Identify program issues and/or addresses management concerns related to Emergency Management program operations.

- Analyze, evaluate, develop, and implement work processes to achieve program efficiencies and deliver needed services effectively.

- Organize and establish work processes that provide support to management, ensure the delivery of designated services, and implement rules, regulations, policies, and other guidelines as prescribed by management to achieve program objectives.

- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders prior to, during, and after an emergency to ensure preparedness and resilience for all-hazards incidents.

- Create, update, and publish emergency management documents, to include plans, training content, exercises, and After-Action Reports.

- Provide on-call incident support for the Emergency Management, Health, Safety, and Security (EMHSS) team.

- Perform related work as required.

Emergency Management Specialist

Position Summary

Under general supervision, the Emergency Management Specialist supports the Denver Water preparedness and resilience initiative. The overall goal of the Emergency Management Specialist is to assist in ensuring that the organization is prepared for, mitigates against, responds to, and recovers from natural, human-caused, and technological emergencies and/or disasters that may impact the water system. The specialist will be assigned one of three distinct areas. Operations, Planning, or Training & Exercise

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

- Support Denver Water’s various emergency plans to ensure they meet local, state, and federal requirements and assist in the development of policies and procedures.

- Act as a liaison and/or lead by collaborating with local, state, and federal partners.

- Provide emergency management support for complex and/or extended disasters or hazardous incidents, to include support with the activation of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), Incident Command Post (ICP), and overall incident coordination.

- Provide on-call incident support as defined by procedures and elevate to emergency activation, as necessary.

- Identify and implement items related to their area of expertise.

- May require contract administration/oversight to support functional areas.

- Perform related work as required. Areas of Specialization.

- Training and Exercises: Lead the emergency management training program, to include the development of training curriculum, training plans, facilitation of course materials, and reporting and tracking for all employees and key stakeholders. Lead the overall emergency management exercise program, to include developing a Training and Exercise Plan (TEP), conducting a TEP Workshop (TEPW), designing and facilitating discussion and operations-based exercises, utilizing HSEEP standards, developing After-Action Reports (AAR) and Improvement Plans (IP), and tracking improvement items. Participate in incident investigations to determine if training/exercise program were appropriate.

- Planning: Lead planning and threat assessment programs to include, real-time threat assessments, HIRA/THIRA, Risk and Resiliency Assessments, and Behavior Threat Assessments. Assist in the writing and updating of ERP, EAP, EOP, and COOP plans and any other relevant planning documents to ensure accuracy and effectiveness. Participate in incident investigations to determine if planning elements were appropriate.

- Operations: Lead enterprise incident response/recovery operations including the management of security guard contract. Monitor operations to optimize coordination of incident response and recovery. Provide quality assurance of response activities to include site audits, security surveys and safety/security controls. Conduct incident investigations to determine if response/recovery activities were appropriate.