Emergency Preparedness Coordinator

Closing Date:
February 9, 2026
$38.07 to $50.13 DOQ

Title:
Emergency Preparedness Coordinator

Updated: 4/23/2025

Department:
Health and Human Services

Reports to:
Public Health Community Health Supervisor

Position Status:
Full-Time, Appointed Teamster’s Local 320 Union

Job Location:
Chisago County HHS, North Branch office

Position Objective

Performs difficult work providing leadership, planning and implementation expertise to ensure a coordinated approach to prepare for, mitigate, respond to and recover from an all-hazard event or incident with public health implications, gathering data and assisting with annual reports, working collaboratively with other departments and community partners in the County on All Hazards planning, Zoning collaboratives or advisory committees, and related work as apparent or assigned.

Work is performed under the limited supervision of Public Health Community Health Supervisor and Administrator.

Essential Functions

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Emergency Preparedness and Response

• Develop, exercise, and maintain preparedness and response strategies and plans, in accordance with established guidelines, and to address a range of events including natural or other disasters, communicable disease outbreaks, environmental emergencies, or other events, which may be acute or occur over time.
• Develop, implement, and maintain written policies and procedures (e.g., ESF-8) to activate and alert public health personnel and response partners during an emergency.
• Develop, maintain, and update emergency preparedness and response plans based on identified risk preparedness and response competencies in collaboration with appropriate stakeholders.
• Establish the response and recovery role of public health in other partners' plans for all types of disasters and emergencies.
• Effectively inform staff and appropriate stakeholders on the capabilities and role of public health in the emergency preparedness and response plan
• Provide staff training on the preparedness and response plan with appropriate frequency.
• Collaborate with community-based organizations and partners to provide training exercises.

• Integrate social determinants of health, and actions to address inequities, including ensuring the protection of high-risk populations, into all plans, programs, and services.
• Build and maintain relationships with the public and partners to establish trust with governmental public health.
• Convene cross-sector partners to identify strategies or initiatives for community-based organizations and governmental partners.

• Lead the Emergency Support Function 8 – Public Health & Medical for the county, region, jurisdiction, and state.
• Ensure staff are adequately trained on emergency preparedness and response competencies, including interoperability within the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command System (ICS) frameworks.
• Assure leadership of governmental emergency health and medical operations
• Assess the scope and responsibility for public health response.

• Activate the emergency response personnel and communications systems in the event of a public health crisis; coordinate with federal, state, and local emergency managers and other first responders, and private sector and nonprofit partners; and operate within, and as necessary lead, the incident management system.
• Activate and alert public health response personnel and communication systems.
• Operate within the established incident command system according to the role of public health.
• Convene public health partners to identify strategies or initiatives for governmental public health response to incidents, and to assess the need for community incident response efforts.

• Maintain and execute a continuity of operations plan that includes a plan to access financial resources to execute an emergency and recovery response.
• Identify priority or essential public health…