What are the responsibilities and job description for the Emergency Management Specialist / Watch Officer (Full-time) position at Excalibur Associates Inc?
Emergency Management Specialist / Watch Officer (Full-time)
Must possess an active and verifiable Top-Secret / SCI Clearance
Personnel with Operations Center or Intel backgrounds encouraged to apply.
Major duties and responsibilities :
- Provide assistance to program officials managing crisis situations and to ensure availability of emergency operations resources.
- Reviews and evaluates incoming reports, information, and programs to ensure timely and effective response to incidents or to train and validate responses to a wide variety of scenarios.
- Operates the USDA incident / emergency computer and communications network.
- Maintains current knowledge and oversight of emergency plans, procedures, and resources.
- Receives and processes emergency notifications and information about other events impacting or affecting USDA operations and programs within the context of the Departments Emergency Management System (EMS).
- Stands watch in support of the Operation Centers mission to provide senior USDA staff with international, national and regional situation awareness.
- Collects information from other government agency SITREPS and SPOTREPS during emergency situations in order to prepare reports that keep the Secretary informed of threats or issues related the Department mission.
- Maintains data pertaining to incidents, potential and actual emergency situations, and routine information and data which includes intelligence data, USDA operational data, and information from other U.S. Government agencies.
- Maintains systems for receipt, analysis, and dissemination of information and data pertaining to incidents, potential and actual emergency situations, and routine information and data which includes intelligence data, USDA operational data, and information from other U.S. Government agencies (i.e., State Department, National Security Council, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the National Response Center).
- Operates the Computer Emergency Notification System, Mass Notification messaging system, IPTC override system, and radiation monitoring systems.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Knowledge Requirements
INTRODUCTION
This position is on contract to U.S. Department of Agriculture located in the Emergency Programs Division, Office of Homeland Security (OHS), Departmental Management, USDA. OHS provides Departmental executive leadership for initiatives pertaining to physical security, emergency programs, personnel and document security, continuity of operations / continuity of government, homeland and security, and operations center support to USDA emergency response and program operations nationwide.
The Emergency Programs Division manages the Department’s Emergency Operations Center and provides international, national, and regional situational awareness across the Department including providing and maintaining current information systems technology and national security systems to support USDA crisis management capability and facilitate inter-agency crisis coordination. The primary purpose for the position is to serve as a watch stander in support of the mission to provide international and national situational awareness to keep the Secretary and senior management informed of threats or issues related to the Department mission.
Other Factors :
This is a national security position. The employee must possess and maintain a TOP SECRET / SCI clearance. Inability to meet this requirement is grounds for dismissal.
The position is considered critical-essential. As such, the employee may be required to return to the assigned duty station outside of normal duty hours to provide support to USDA policy makers, particularly during crisis periods.
The employee must be able to deploy to an emergency relocation facility during crises or relocate to other sites for an undetermined amount time in support of continuity requirements.
The employee is assigned to specific shifts; day, night and weekends. Shift assignments may be occasionally changed to provide for scheduled absences such as sick leave or annual leave.
Emergency operations experience is desirable.
Benefits
Total Compensation based on prior experience, knowledge and skillset : $90,000 – $105,000 per year.
The successful candidate for this position will have access to full company benefits.
Excalibur Associates, Inc. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of race, sex, religion, color, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status protected by Federal, state or local law.
Salary : $90,000 - $105,000
