How do they match: Emergency Management Directors

  • 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.

  • Attend meetings, conferences, and workshops related to emergency management to learn new information and to develop working relationships with other emergency management specialists.
  • Coordinate disaster response or crisis management activities, such as ordering evacuations, opening public shelters, and implementing special needs plans and programs.
  • Keep informed of activities or changes that could affect the likelihood of an emergency, response efforts, or plan implementation.

  • Confer with organizational members to accomplish work activities.
  • Coordinate operational activities with external stakeholders.
  • Establish interpersonal business relationships to facilitate work activities.