Summary description:

The FEMA Exercise Branch designs, develops, conducts, and evaluates exercises, specific to FEMA, including no-notice exercises, operational component exercises, FEMA-wide national level exercises, and, as appropriate, exercises that involve regional offices. It serves as the lead and primary coordinator for FEMA intra-agency exercises, largely those within the Response Directorate, and coordinates FEMA’s participation in interagency exercises to help ensure FEMA’s ability to accomplish its mission. The FEMA Exercise Branch also administers the FEMA Exercise and Evaluation Program (EEP) and co-chairs the associated Exercise Coordination Group, the primary coordinating body on issues of exercise scheduling, budgeting, resource allocation, organization, objective formulation, design, development, conduct, evaluation, and corrective action recommendations.

Job description:

This SkillBridge Position will assist with the development and coordination of FEMA’s participation in DOD led exercises with USNORTHCOM and USINDOPACOM because the FEMA Exercise Branch has the responsibility to coordinate FEMA participation in several DSCA focused exercise each year, to include the annual Ardent Sentry, Vigilant Shield, Vigilant Guard, Vibrant Response, and Patriot South exercises. This SkillBridge Position will assist those planning and participation efforts by serving as our Department of Defense (DOD) subject matter expert on the development of FEMA’s exercise objectives and supporting documents. This SkillBridge Position will also have responsibility for assisting in the planning, developing, conducting, and organizing the evaluation of exercises of new exercises that have DOD interaction, as well as with other federal response partners in accordance with FEMA published plans and doctrine.

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