How do they match: Emergency Management Directors

  • Emergency Services Director
  • Emergency Services Program Coordinator

  • Plan and direct disaster response or crisis management activities, provide disaster preparedness training, and prepare emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g., hurricanes, floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies or hazardous materials spills) disasters or hostage situations.

  • Develop and implement training procedures and strategies for radiological protection, detection, and decontamination.
  • Develop and maintain liaisons with municipalities, county departments, and similar entities to facilitate plan development, response effort coordination, and exchanges of personnel and equipment.
  • Develop and perform tests and evaluations of emergency management plans in accordance with state and federal regulations.
  • Develop instructional materials for the public and make presentations to citizens' groups to provide information on emergency plans and their implementation processes.
  • Attend meetings, conferences, and workshops related to emergency management to learn new information and to develop working relationships with other emergency management specialists.
  • Propose alteration of emergency response procedures, based on regulatory changes, technological changes, or knowledge gained from outcomes of previous emergency situations.
  • Study emergency plans used elsewhere to gather information for plan development.

  • Develop emergency response plans or procedures.
  • Develop safety standards, policies, or procedures.
  • Develop training materials.
  • Maintain knowledge of current developments in area of expertise.