Assistant Emergency Manager

Klamath County is located in beautiful southern Oregon and home to the city of Klamath Falls, known as the state’s City of Sunshine with over 300 days of sunshine annually!  Klamath County offers everything for outdoor adventurers as well as a unique and diverse art community.  We are home to Oregon Institute of Technology and Kingsley Field Air Base, where the 173rd Fighter Wing resides. For more information about living in this community, please visit https://lifeinklamath.com/. 
Klamath County seeks to find candidates who want to make this beautiful area their home and are looking for a position where their contributions are valued and recognized.  Below is a brief overview of the Assistant Emergency Manager position.  Please contact Human Resources for a more in-depth description of the job and more details on our extensive benefits package.
General Position Summary
Assist in planning, organizing, and administrating activities and special projects of a county-wide emergency management program for natural, technological, or man-made emergencies. Primary responsibilities include:

• Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) coordination during preparedness.
• Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Planning Section Chief during response.
• The Long-Term Recovery Group (LTRG) liaison during recovery.

The ideal candidate for this position will be organized, detail-oriented, dependable, and self-motivated. This individual will need to enjoy meeting new people and must be able to handle multiple projects simultaneously. Candidate must be comfortable driving in adverse weather conditions and to rural communities. 
 
Essential Functions
The following may not be all-inclusive, and other duties may be assigned. 
Serves as the Klamath County LEPC Coordinator. This includes facilitating LEPC and its subcommittee meetings to Oregon Public Meeting Law standards, develops and updates the Klamath County Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) using information acquired from LEPC and its subcommittee meetings.
Serves as the Klamath County EOC Planning Section Chief. This includes conducting EOC Information Management by establishing an incident specific Information Collection Plan (ICP), Collecting Situation Reports (SITREP) from stakeholders and developing a Geographic Information System (GIS) based Common Operational Picture (COP) for the whole-of-government and whole community to enable collaborative decision making
Facilitates EOC Situation Update and Objectives meetings and planning meetings.
Develops Incident Action Plans, Incident Support Plans, and Emergency Action Plans using the information in the EOP and COP.
Serves as the Klamath County LTRG Liaison. This includes advising the LTRG on planning and organizing principles as well as assisting the LTRG in National Incident Management System (NIMS) related activities.
Other duties include:

• Leading volunteers
• Assume the duties of the County Emergency Manager and other staff during absences
• Publish Emergency Alerts
• Participate in Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessments (THIRA), Hazard Vulnerability Assessments (HVA), Jurisdictional Risk Assessments (JRA), and Capability Assessments.
• Participate in all organizational plans and assist in the review of stakeholder plans to include resilience, mitigation, continuity, training, exercise, response, and recovery plans. 
• Participate in training and exercises as a student, participant, and instructor
• Conduct After Action Reviews (AAR) and Develop Improvement Plans (IP)
• Advance as an emergency management professional
• Advance the profession of emergency management

 Supervisory Responsibilities
Assists the Emergency Manager in providing leadership of the department. May directly supervise volunteers. Responsibilities may include:

• Training county employees and volunteers.
• Planning, assigning, and directing volunteer work.
• Appraising performance.
• Addressing complaints and resolving problems. 

Supervisory responsibilities will be conducted per the applicable laws, Klamath County Human Resources policies, and Klamath County Emergency Management policies.
Qualifications
An individual must perform each essential duty satisfactorily to perform this job successfully. The requirements below represent the required knowledge, skill, and ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 
Education, Certification, & Experience

• Valid Driver's License
• Relevant Higher Education or Experience

1. Four-year bachelor's Degree from an accredited university/college in emergency management, homeland security, political science, criminal justice, or a justifiable equivalent; 

OR 

1. Four years of work experience in emergency management, homeland security, or military staff (eight years for military reserve or national guard); 

OR 

1. Equivalent combination of education and experience.

• FEMA Independent Study (IS) Minimum Training Requirements
  • IS 29 – Public Information Officer Awareness
  • IS 100 – Introduction to Incident Command Systems (ICS)
  • IS 200 – Basic ICS of Initial Response
  • IS 230 – Fundamentals of Emergency Management
  • IS 235 – Emergency Planning
  • IS 247 – Integrated Public Alert and Warning Systems (IPAWS) for Alert Originators
  • IS 700 – Introduction to the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
  • IS 800 – Introduction to the National Response Framework

All of the following can be obtained after employment: 

• ICS 400 – Advanced ICS;
  AND
• Either:
  1. National Emergency Management Basic Academy (NEMBA);
     OR
  2. Oregon Basic Applied Practice Series (BAPS).

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Interpersonal Skills 
Ability to work closely and collaborate with ICS leadership, county department heads, County Commissioners and elected officials, Public Information Officers and the media, Native American/Pacific Islander (NA/PI) populations and tribal leadership, Hispanic and Latino populations, military organizations, Voluntary Organizations, Faith-Based Organizations, and Disaster Survivors.
Language Skills 
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and technical manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
Mathematical Skills 
Ability to perform basic arithmetic and intermediate statistics, including creating and interpreting different types of graphs. Types of graphs include histograms, bar charts, box plots, and violin plots.
Reasoning Ability 
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with dynamic variables in situations with limited standardization. Ability to exchange information in temporospatial, diagrammatic, metric, and narrative formats.
Computer Skills 
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have advanced skills in ESRI ArcGIS software and Microsoft Office Products. Publish an Emergency Notification or Integrated Public Alerts and Warning (IPAWS) Message using the OR-ALERT instance of Everbridge's Mass Notification System. 
Other Skills and Abilities

• Ability to maintain professional disposition in austere conditions.
• Ability to write and teach how to write an EOP given a deep understanding of NIMS and FEMA's Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans.
• Ability to write communication plans in accordance with the NIMS Communication and Information Management doctrine.
• Ability to articulate NIMS Command and Coordination doctrine.
• Technical knowledge of programable tactical communications systems and radios, NIMS interoperability principles, and Oregon interoperability standards.
• Working knowledge of Oregon governmental structure and state and county laws, regulations, and procedures, with particular attention to ORS 401, ORS 192.610, and ORS 192.705.
• Ability to lead others regardless of the nature of the relationship.

Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, feel, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds.
Salary and Benefits
This is a salaried, exempt position, with a wage range of $ 4,912.63 - $ 6,395.50 per month.  The pay range listed here reflects the FULL pay range for this position for the current fiscal year.  Salary offers are based on the candidate's equivalent experience and internal equity with other employees within the same job classification.
Klamath County also offers a generous benefits package, including County contributions to health insurance, County contributions to a retirement plan, paid life insurance, paid short term disability, paid time off and more! 
Klamath County recognizes and understands the importance of being able to care for yourself and loved ones when your health and safety are affected.  To show our support during those difficult events, Klamath County offers all of its employees up to 12 weeks of fully employer paid leave per benefit year for qualifying events. 
Working Conditions
The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to inclement weather conditions. This typically lasts for an hour or less; however, there may be exceptions based on significant event-related needs. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
Work Schedule 
This position is full-time, usually 8 AM to 5 PM Monday through Friday. However, due to the nature of the work, the employee can expect to work a flexible schedule to accommodate after-hours meetings with key stakeholders, irregular hours during planned events and inclement weather, and overtime during significant events. Failure to fulfill essential duties during irregular hours or significant events will be grounds for employment termination.
Pre-Employment Screenings

• DMV Records Verification
• Klamath County Background Investigation

 

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