Senior Incident Management Advisor - PTAN

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Who are we looking for
GHDsFast Incident Response Services Team (GHD FIRST)is seeking aSenior Incident Management Advisorto support our emergency management and preparedness programs on a part-time as-needed basis.

This role is ideal for professionals with 15 years of experience in emergency response and incident management who hold multipleNIMS ICS Position Specific Training Programcertifications and are passionate about mentoring others. Your deep knowledge and leadership will help enhance the capabilities of both GHD staff and our clients across North America. This role can be remote or based out of most GHD locations throughout the US.

Working with an energetic and high performing team this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:

Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in preparation of radio or television station program schedules and programs such as sports or news.

Serve as a senior subject matter expert inIncident Command System (ICS)andEmergency Management providing strategic guidance to internal and client teams.

Facilitate and lead ICS training sessions client coaching and after-action reviews for drills exercises and real-world incidents.

Provide part-time/as-needed support for emergency response planning tactical plans and spill drills.

Support or lead engagements with existing and prospective clients focused on emergency preparedness and response.

Collaborate with GHD FIRST leadership to support staff development training programs and project execution.

Portfolio Management: Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of a program or

group of significant projects within a function using an appropriate project management

methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved.

Project Scope Definition: Lead the planning and delivery of a wide range of information

gathering and stakeholder consultation activities and specify negotiate and agree on

program and project deliverables ensuring integration across the program.

Leadership and Direction: Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement

the functions strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain

the relationship to the broader organizations mission vision and values; motivate

people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business

goals.

Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies

and plans across the program to identify relevant stakeholders to create mutually

supportive working relationships and to ensure that each stakeholder has an

appropriate share of voice at both project and program levels.

Project Risk and Issue Management: Ensure that risks issues dependencies and

constraints are managed appropriately at project level. Where risks or issues threaten

delivery of the project develop and agree on recovery plans.

Project Team Management: Lead large project and program teams (or multiple small- to

medium-sized teams); define the project/program vision communicate the necessary

outcomes and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; manage resources across

projects/programs; negotiate the flow of additional team members on and off the team

as needed; and build the capability of the team through training coaching and

mentoring.

Project Resource Management: Negotiate and manage deployment of project resource

budgets providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate

review points to ensure effective utilization.

Project Assurance: Manage the delivery of assurance reviews within a project enable

the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties and take appropriate

action to resolve any issues identified to give senior stakeholders confidence that the

project can deliver according to time budget and quality.

Enterprise Business Analysis: Interpret the business need and identify solution

recommendations to business problems at a business unit level.

Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder

solutions that boost creativity innovation and collaboration across business units such

as idea generation platforms jam sessions and hackathons.

Transformational Change Management: Manage projects or substantial workstreams

within a transformational change program ensuring integration with related projects;

use structured change management methodologies to build acceptance of change and to

embed desired culture and behaviors.

Project Governance: Clarify roles and responsibilities within the project team and ensure

project compliance with the organizations wider program and/or portfolio management

decision-making structures and processes.

Project Benefit Realization: Develop and manage the delivery of a plan to evaluate and

track business benefits and to identify actions needed to maximize them.

Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology

policy regulation or operational management for the team. Maintain external

accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation

and industry best practices through continuing professional development attending

conferences and reading specialist media.

15 yearsof direct experience in incident management emergency response or a related field.

Certified and experienced inNIMS ICS Position Specific Training Programfor multiple roles (e.g. PSC OSC IC LOFR PIO).

Proven experience training or mentoring professionals in ICS and emergency preparedness.

Strong communication skills with the ability to teach complex concepts to diverse audiences.

Experience working with or for railroads pipelines utilities government or industrial clients preferred.

Ability to respond to urgent requests with professionalism and composure.

Education

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Level in emergency management or a related field preferred.

Experience

General Experience: Wide and deep experience providing expert competence (Over 10

years to 15 years)

Managerial Experience: Experience of supervising and directing people and other

resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes (13 months to 3

years)

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Salary: $40 - $100/hour

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