What are the responsibilities and job description for the Preparedness and Outreach Division Chief (Manager III), Grade M3 position at Montgomery County Government?
About The Position
Anticipated salary for this role: $95,788 - $165,765
Who We Are
The Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (OEMHS) is responsible for planning, preventing, preparing and protecting those within the County against major threats that may harm, disrupt or destroy our communities, commerce and institutions. Our mission is to effectively manage and coordinate the County’s unified response, mitigation, and recovery from the consequences of such disasters or events should they occur. We also serve to educate the public on emergency preparedness for all hazards and focused outreach to our diverse and special populations to protect, secure and sustain critical infrastructures to ensure the continuity of essential services.
Who We Are Looking For
Are you passionate about making a difference and being at the forefront of emergency preparedness and homeland security? Join our team as a Division Chief of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and play a crucial role in safeguarding our community against potential threats and ensuring a coordinated and effective response in times of crisis.
Join us in our mission to protect and serve our community in the face of adversity. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact and contribute to the safety and resilience of Montgomery County.
The Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (OEMHS) is responsible for planning, coordinating, preventing, preparing for, and protecting against major threats that may harm, disrupt, or destroy our communities, commerce, and institutions. Our mission is to effectively manage and coordinate the County’s unified response to, mitigation of, and recovery from the consequences of such disasters or events should they occur. We also serve to educate the public on emergency preparedness for all hazards and focused outreach to our diverse and special populations to protect, secure, and sustain critical infrastructures to ensure the continuity of essential services. Our office works with county government departments, local partner agencies, municipalities, community groups, and the public to address a variety of emergency management challenges.
As the Division Chief, you will be responsible for managing a team of Emergency Management Specialists and other professionals to plan and operationalize the strategic vision of the office. The Division Chief will oversee a wide range of homeland security and emergency management capabilities and services, from inception through realization and maintenance. For each of these capabilities, the Division Chief will be responsible for developing written plans, organizing coalitions throughout the government and community, training professionals and the public, conducting exercises, and refining the approach on a routine basis. The Division Chief serves as an expert on emergency response, emergency protective actions, community outreach, homeland security grants, continuity of operations planning, and several other mission critical programs. The incumbent will also possess strong leadership and management skills to supervise a diverse team of professionals, as well as lead coalitions of government and non-government emergency response partners to achieve the collective mission. The Division Chief operates in a dynamic environment that requires frequent and prompt adjustments to approaches based on community needs and evolving threats.
This position is designated as Essential Personnel and requires the incumbent to maintain 24/7 on-call availability in support of emergency response operations. The Division Chief must be prepared to report for duty and operate under challenging and often time-sensitive conditions, including nights, weekends, holidays, and during adverse weather or hazardous events.
The Division Chief reports directly to the Deputy Director of the Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and plays a critical role in shaping and executing the County’s mission to safeguard the health, safety, and well-being of its residents, infrastructure, and environment.
What You'll Be Doing
The Preparedness and Outreach Division Chief Position plays a critical role in the strategic direction, operational oversight, and organizational effectiveness of response and recovery capabilities, emergency plans, and preparedness programs. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Minimum Qualifications
Experience in planning and executing all aspects of emergency management principles for local government, including public preparedness initiatives, mitigation efforts, government emergency operations, continuity of operations, and community recovery.
Experience in organizing and managing cohorts comprised of representatives of interdisciplinary agencies and organizations over which you have no authority but must lead to implement whole-of-community preparedness, response, and recovery.
Experience in the formulation, development, writing, adoption, and implementation of emergency management policies, procedures, plans, standards, regulations, guidance, and other written products that drive local actions in the preparedness, prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery phases.
Experience leading emergency operations during large-scale emergencies and disasters, utilizing the principles and practices for general administration of local governments to execute plans to ensure expedient response and restoration for the impacted community.
Experience managing a broad, diversified project/program portfolio using effective project management practices and standards to ensure satisfactory, on-time results from a team working simultaneously on multiple projects in various stages, in an environment that often calls for adaptation for emergencies.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The Office of Human Resources (OHR) reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position.
Montgomery County Government(MCG) is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should email OHR at OHR@montgomerycountymd.gov . Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.
MCG also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference .
All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria or interview preference status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on the Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for an interview.
This will establish an Eligible List that may be used to fill both current and future vacancies.
If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.
Montgomery County Ethics Law : Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at 19A-12 of the County Code . Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the Ethics Commission website.
Anticipated salary for this role: $95,788 - $165,765
Who We Are
The Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (OEMHS) is responsible for planning, preventing, preparing and protecting those within the County against major threats that may harm, disrupt or destroy our communities, commerce and institutions. Our mission is to effectively manage and coordinate the County’s unified response, mitigation, and recovery from the consequences of such disasters or events should they occur. We also serve to educate the public on emergency preparedness for all hazards and focused outreach to our diverse and special populations to protect, secure and sustain critical infrastructures to ensure the continuity of essential services.
Who We Are Looking For
Are you passionate about making a difference and being at the forefront of emergency preparedness and homeland security? Join our team as a Division Chief of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and play a crucial role in safeguarding our community against potential threats and ensuring a coordinated and effective response in times of crisis.
Join us in our mission to protect and serve our community in the face of adversity. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact and contribute to the safety and resilience of Montgomery County.
The Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (OEMHS) is responsible for planning, coordinating, preventing, preparing for, and protecting against major threats that may harm, disrupt, or destroy our communities, commerce, and institutions. Our mission is to effectively manage and coordinate the County’s unified response to, mitigation of, and recovery from the consequences of such disasters or events should they occur. We also serve to educate the public on emergency preparedness for all hazards and focused outreach to our diverse and special populations to protect, secure, and sustain critical infrastructures to ensure the continuity of essential services. Our office works with county government departments, local partner agencies, municipalities, community groups, and the public to address a variety of emergency management challenges.
As the Division Chief, you will be responsible for managing a team of Emergency Management Specialists and other professionals to plan and operationalize the strategic vision of the office. The Division Chief will oversee a wide range of homeland security and emergency management capabilities and services, from inception through realization and maintenance. For each of these capabilities, the Division Chief will be responsible for developing written plans, organizing coalitions throughout the government and community, training professionals and the public, conducting exercises, and refining the approach on a routine basis. The Division Chief serves as an expert on emergency response, emergency protective actions, community outreach, homeland security grants, continuity of operations planning, and several other mission critical programs. The incumbent will also possess strong leadership and management skills to supervise a diverse team of professionals, as well as lead coalitions of government and non-government emergency response partners to achieve the collective mission. The Division Chief operates in a dynamic environment that requires frequent and prompt adjustments to approaches based on community needs and evolving threats.
This position is designated as Essential Personnel and requires the incumbent to maintain 24/7 on-call availability in support of emergency response operations. The Division Chief must be prepared to report for duty and operate under challenging and often time-sensitive conditions, including nights, weekends, holidays, and during adverse weather or hazardous events.
The Division Chief reports directly to the Deputy Director of the Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and plays a critical role in shaping and executing the County’s mission to safeguard the health, safety, and well-being of its residents, infrastructure, and environment.
What You'll Be Doing
The Preparedness and Outreach Division Chief Position plays a critical role in the strategic direction, operational oversight, and organizational effectiveness of response and recovery capabilities, emergency plans, and preparedness programs. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Develop homeland security and emergency management capabilities from conceptualization to operationalization. These include all aspects of emergency management, including protection, prevention, response, mitigation, and recovery capabilities.
- Create policies, plans, procedures, projects, initiatives, and programs that support a resilient and prepared Montgomery County.
- Develop comprehensive project management plans for accomplishing deliverables and milestones.
- Provide assignments, oversight, and coaching of staff to fulfill project and program needs.
- Manage a diverse portfolio of homeland security and emergency management capabilities in various stages of completion, revision, or maintenance.
- Understand and manage simultaneous priorities and interdependencies.
- Interface with, and lead representatives from, partner agencies at the county, region, state, and federal level to build whole-of-government capabilities that are well-coordinated and executed.
- Engage the public to build whole-of-community response capabilities. This includes education and training across the community on all aspects of emergency preparedness and response.
- Develop, manage, and execute the Montgomery County Emergency Operations Plan, which guides all disciplines and agencies in a coordinated response to large-scale emergencies in the county. Provide training to all contributing partners to ensure readiness.
- Manage the Montgomery County Emergency Management Group (EMG), an interdisciplinary team of county agencies and community partners that is responsible for integration and coordination to provide whole-of-community emergency preparedness and response.
- Routinely respond to emergencies of varying degrees of complexity at during and outside working hours, serving in an Incident Command or Deputy Incident Commander role while operating on the scene of the emergency, at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), or at the Department Operations Center (DOC).
- Performing other job-related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience: Five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in emergency management or related field.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in such fields as emergency management, public safety, public administration or a related field
- Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.
- Advanced degree from an accredited university in emergency management, homeland security, public safety, organizational leadership, or a similar course of study.
- Experience in a supervisory capacity.
- Possession of current and active certification as an Associate Emergency Manager (AEM) or Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) through the International Association of Emergency Managers.
Experience in planning and executing all aspects of emergency management principles for local government, including public preparedness initiatives, mitigation efforts, government emergency operations, continuity of operations, and community recovery.
Experience in organizing and managing cohorts comprised of representatives of interdisciplinary agencies and organizations over which you have no authority but must lead to implement whole-of-community preparedness, response, and recovery.
Experience in the formulation, development, writing, adoption, and implementation of emergency management policies, procedures, plans, standards, regulations, guidance, and other written products that drive local actions in the preparedness, prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery phases.
Experience leading emergency operations during large-scale emergencies and disasters, utilizing the principles and practices for general administration of local governments to execute plans to ensure expedient response and restoration for the impacted community.
Experience managing a broad, diversified project/program portfolio using effective project management practices and standards to ensure satisfactory, on-time results from a team working simultaneously on multiple projects in various stages, in an environment that often calls for adaptation for emergencies.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The Office of Human Resources (OHR) reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position.
Montgomery County Government(MCG) is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should email OHR at OHR@montgomerycountymd.gov . Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.
MCG also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference .
All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria or interview preference status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on the Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for an interview.
This will establish an Eligible List that may be used to fill both current and future vacancies.
If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.
Montgomery County Ethics Law : Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at 19A-12 of the County Code . Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the Ethics Commission website.
Salary : $95,788 - $165,765
