What are the responsibilities and job description for the Deputy Director Emergency Management position at Monroe County, FL?
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Salary:
$90,990.31 - $145,584.49
Job Description:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.
Job Title: Deputy Director Emergency Management
Department: Emergency Management
Pay Grade: 318
FLSA Status: Exempt
JOB SUMMARY
The primary function of this position is to fulfill the duties of Director in his/her absence on a day-to-day basis and to include the role of Deputy Incident Commander/Incident Commander in the event of a declared Local State of Emergency. This position supervises the day-to-day activities of the staff, determines strategy and goals and objectives related to projects deemed a priority by the Director, facilitates and oversees their implementation.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Serves as director in their absence or as assigned.
- Assists Director with County's Response to a Disaster.
- Assists Director with department operations, oversight of purchasing contract negotiations, monitoring, report management, staff supervision, preparation and management of operational budget.
- Under State Ste. 252 and in absence of the director may appoint, employ, or remove provided, public safety (fire, law rescue) personnel and emergency workers, establish the EOC, request mutual aid, declare a State of Local Emergency, expends funds for emergency purposes, takes protective actions to ensure community safety.
- Assists Director with coordination and participation in of Regional and Homeland Security Initiatives.
- Develops and updates emergency plans for preparedness, response, recovery, mitigation.
- Ensures EOC is properly equipped and operationally staffed, functional for disaster.
- Develops operating procedures for the EOC. Coordinated and communicate with County, municipalities, region, and state.
- Interacts with the Florida Division of Emergency Management and other local, state, and federal agencies regarding emergency management, radiological management, grants, mitigation, training, procedures, and resource assistance.
- Interfaces with media as directed.
- Assists with the coordination of nuclear response planning activities for incidents involving the County and Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant.
- Represents the county and Office of Emergency Management at conferences, local and regional meetings. Provides technical expertise to other departments, divisions, municipalities, and governments.
- Performs other related job duties as assigned.
- In the event of special, emergency, or disaster situations, employee may be required to work schedules other than those for which they are regularly scheduled in any capacity deemed appropriate.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree with a major in Emergency Management, Public Administration, Business Administration, Management or related acceptable field. An acceptable combination of education and/or experience may be substituted for education.
Special Qualifications:
Florida Professional Emergency Manager Certification (FPEM) or the ability to acquire within 3 years of employment date.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to determine strategy as well as long range goals for the organization.
- Ability to design processes, allocate resources, and report to elected officials or the public.
- Ability to develop policies, long range plans, and allocate funds.
- Ability to make decisions that involve multiple priorities, limited resources, and internal and external challenges.
- Ability to perform work that involves high level issues, processes, or organizational needs.
- Ability to interact with senior managers, citizens, and elected officials on a regular basis.
- Ability to ensure that principles and objectives are implemented.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The work is light and requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
- Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
- Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes, while operating under high levels of stress.
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
- Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
- Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
- Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work deals with regularly making decisions that could lead to major community or organizational consequences if an employee fails to make the appropriate decision at the time, sometimes under physically threatening conditions.
Monroe County has the right to revise this job description at any time.
This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Monroe County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, or military service in employment or the provision of services.
Empleador de Igualdad de Oportunidades: El Condado de Monroe no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, género, religión, edad, discapacidad o servicio militar en el empleo o la prestación de servicios.
Veterans Preference according to Florida State Statute 295.07: Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of the servicemembers and veterans, receive preference and priority in employment by the state and are encouraged to apply for the positions being filled.
Preferencia de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.
Preferencia de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.
Salary : $90,990 - $145,584
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