How do they match: Emergency Management Directors

  • Emergency Planning and Response Manager

  • Attend meetings, conferences, and workshops related to emergency management to learn new information and to develop working relationships with other emergency management specialists.
  • Conduct surveys to determine the types of emergency-related needs to be addressed in disaster planning, or provide technical support to others conducting such surveys.
  • Develop instructional materials for the public and make presentations to citizens' groups to provide information on emergency plans and their implementation processes.
  • Keep informed of activities or changes that could affect the likelihood of an emergency, response efforts, or plan implementation.
  • Keep informed of federal, state, and local regulations affecting emergency plans, and ensure that plans adhere to those regulations.
  • Review emergency plans of individual organizations, such as medical facilities, to ensure their adequacy.
  • Study emergency plans used elsewhere to gather information for plan development.

  • Maintain operational records.
  • Present information to the public.