This page includes current job opportunities with the Office of Emergency Management.
Public Health Site and Event Lead
Position Summary
A Public Health Site & Event Lead with OEM will fill many critical roles that require a hands-on solution. This role will serve as the primary assessor of temporary facilities and as relationship manager with owner/operators and with City administrative departments. Work locations may include vaccine or testing clinics, isolation and quarantine sites, the Medical Examiner’s Office, the Disaster Logistics Site, or transporting people and things in the field.
The Site & Event Lead will conduct day-to-day operations of research and evaluation of locations across the city. Activities may include contacting facility owners and operators, conducting inspections or feasibility tours, tending to site agreements, facilitating correspondence between site owners and the city, scheduling and arranging events at sites, managing a database of potential Site and conducting event support operations with the Office’s logistics team. This position will work closely with external stakeholders as well as the City’s Department of Public Health, Law Department, Office of Risk Management, and Recovery Office.
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Operational Coordination Group Lead
Position Summary
The OEM mission is a 24/7/365 commitment. Mitigating, Preparing, Responding, and Recovering for planned and unplanned events requires around-the-clock dedication. The Operational Coordination Group Lead’s role is to provide general direction and leadership to the RIC Coordinators & EMLOs of the Operational Coordination Program and provide specific subject matter guidance to staff on the following subjects: program operations, training and exercising, administrative matters to include scheduling, and technology systems in use.
Candidates should possess a strong desire to work in a team-oriented, fast paced, flexible, professional public safety environment, and a willingness to serve the public in the sixth largest city in the nation. The ideal candidate has exceptionally strong leadership and negotiation skills, is self-motivated, inquisitive, adept at working with diverse groups in stressful situations, and has a proven track record of effectively operating under emergency circumstances. Additionally, the candidate should be detail oriented, have excellent technical writing skills, and have the ability to effectively mentor other staff members. Work will require a rotating schedule to include nights, weekends, and holidays and will, at times, be conducted in the field as the sole OEM representative or in a group setting.
Essential Functions
Under the administrative direction of the Operational Coordination Program Manager, the Operational Coordination Group Lead is responsible for a range of activities including the following:
- Manages a blended team of 6 to 7 direct reports of RIC and EMLOs
- Perform the duties of Regional Integration Center (RIC) Coordinator and Emergency Management Liaison Officer (EMLO) as needed.
- Manage training and development plans for the Operational Coordination Program and provide solutions for training gaps.
- Address needs and expectations of daily operations of the Operational Coordination Program.
- Maintain standards of RIC & EMLO work products through quality control checks and follow up as needed.
- Develop, implement, and maintain operational procedures.
- Provide technical support to RIC Coordinators & EMLOs for all incident management systems and equipment.
- Maintain scheduling activities.
- Provide support to Operational Coordination Program special projects.
- Provide oversight during the absence of the Operational Coordinator Program Manager.
- Serve on-call for planned and unplanned RIC and EMLO schedule vacancies.
- Augmenting staffing for the Regional Integration Center and/or EMLO operations during high-tempo operations.
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