The Associate Director, will be responsible for developing, leading and executing a structured scenario planning and training program, as part of a training maturity plan that moves through phases including workshops, tabletop and functional exercises and involves multiple internal and external stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain key internal and external stakeholder relationships.
- Prepare workshop, tabletop and functional exercises documentation.
- Prepare Scenario Playbooks (response guidelines).
- Coordinate and facilitate scenario workshops, tabletop and live-play exercises.
- Validate operational and technical requirements for escalation and reporting.
- Validate operational command & control response structures.
Requirements
Essential Experience:
- At least 15 years of progressive work experience in emergency management, ideally gained in a government setting.
- Minimum 10+ Years experience as a senior officer / manager within civil emergency services, authorities or military.
- Extensive experience in planning, coordinating and directing functional and tabletop training exercises for major multi-agency incidents.
- Experience of collaborating with stakeholders from government and non-government agencies including the validation of operational and technical requirements.
- Development of command-and-control response structures applicable for government and emergency service responder agencies.
- Experience of working in the GCC.
- Extensive experience of operating at a strategic (Gold), tactical (Silver), Operational (Bronze) levels for large scale events, city emergency management, major sporting events and / or large corporate or regulatory bodies.
- Extensive experience in leading post exercise structured debriefs for internal and external stakeholders, identifying lessons learned and consolidating gathered information into an appropriate post exercise report (in accordance, for example with the UK National Occupation Standards (NOS) SFJCCAE3 or with similar internationally recognised standards).
Desired Knowledge & Understanding:
- ISO 22361 Crisis Management Guideline
- ISO 22336 Guidelines for Resilience Policy and Strategy.
- UK National Occupation Standards (NOS) LSIFL308 v2 - Develop training sessions or similar.
- Gold-Silver-Bronze crisis & incident command system
- Interoperability methodology known as Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP).
- Disaster Management Cycle.
- Integrated Emergency Management (IEM).
Qualifications (desirable):
- Degree and / or professional qualification in Emergency, Incident, Crisis and / or Disaster Management
- ICL 4 Strategic (Gold) Incident Command Management Qualified or equivalent
- Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI)