IMAT Deputy Planning and Intelligence Section Chief

Overview

Job Description And Duties Are you looking for an exciting and fast-paced career? Join the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and be part of an organization that serves as a leader in emergency management and homeland security through dedicated service to all. We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our team. If you are interested in a challenging opportunity in a high-energy, team-oriented environment, you are encouraged to apply.

This position assists the Plans Chief in leading, directing, and overseeing the operational components of the IMAT Planning and Intelligence Section’s day-to-day activities and when deployed in the field. Under the general direction of the Plans Chief and IMAT Team Lead, this position is a subject matter expert in the Planning and Intelligence Section function, responsible for a wide range of tasks including, but not limited to, coordinating with local, state, and federal agencies, providing guidance and support to local agencies or other states in support of the response efforts to develop and implement strategies and tactics to achieve incident objectives.

This position is responsible for leading and developing staff roles within the Plans Section and working with internal and external stakeholders, and other state agencies to ensure continuity of preparedness, response, and recovery activities, and develop and implement strategies and tactics to ensure documents are accurate. This position is also responsible for formulating, implementing, and administering departmental policies and objectives assigned to the IMAT in support of the ICS, SEMS, and NIMS structure and in accordance with applicable laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.

Whether deployed or in a steady state, this position carries out a variety of managerial and supervisory functions including, but not limited to supervision of personnel assigned to the Planning and Intelligence Section, including implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of work products, and overall oversight to projects to assist local governments in emergency preparedness efforts, manage design of projects, including their implementation, monitoring, analysis, and evaluation.

Lead single-year and multi-year IMAT workplan development, implementation, performance monitoring, and evaluation, participate in policy level discussion, and advise the IMAT Team Lead on budget, management of budget preparation, monitoring, and analysis and personnel management.

This position is expected to be ready to deploy upon notification, adhere to all safety rules and exercise good judgment, model the way, be a fiscally responsible steward of public funds, build extensive relationships across all disciplines and jurisdictions, influence, and lead change in a learning organization, maintain composure under pressure, practice and follow the incident management models during disasters and day-to-day operations.

This position must be proficient in applicable tools, databases, and applications (i.e., Cal OES resource management, situational awareness, deployment systems, etc.).

This position functions in a demanding and changing environment which requires decision making with independence while meeting short term deadlines and managing IMAT Planning and Intelligence Section assignments. In addition, may be required to travel on short notice, work in the field or in a Joint Field Office (JFO), Area Field Office (AFO), Operational Area (OA), Cal OES Administrative Region, State Operations Center (SOC), other field organization, and provide support as necessary to meet the Department’s Vision, Mission, Values and Goals.

You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement
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In Office: This position supports and manages the day-to-day business operations for Cal OES which is handled in an office location. This is not considered a hybrid telework position.

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