Planning Section Chief Humanitarian Response

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee all planning activities related to incident operations ensuring accurate tracking of personnel resources and situational developments.
  
• Facilitate incident action planning meetings and coordinate input from all operational sections to develop comprehensive Incident Action Plans (IAPs).
  
• Compile and analyze data to identify operational trends forecast resource needs and support leadership decision-making.
  
• Maintain up-to-date incident documentation including situation reports organizational charts resource summaries and operational maps.
  
• Collaborate with the Operations Logistics and Finance/Administration Sections to ensure alignment of objectives strategies and resource availability.
  
• Support the development and implementation of incident objectives operational strategies and contingency plans.
  
• Lead planning briefings and ensure dissemination of IAPs and situational updates to all relevant stakeholders.
  
• Manage and maintain documentation for after-action reviews ensuring lessons learned are captured for future operations.
  
• Ensure all planning and documentation activities adhere to FEMAs National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command System (ICS) standards.
  
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
  

• Demonstrated experience preparing Incident Action Plans (IAPs) and leading multi-agency coordination meetings is required.
  
• Strong knowledge of FEMAs National Incident Management System (NIMS) and ICS frameworks is highly preferred.
  
• Prior experience supporting state or federally coordinated emergency or humanitarian operations is strongly preferred.
  
• Prior experience in federally coordinated emergency or humanitarian response is strongly preferred.
  
• Ability to manage complex information and make data-driven recommendations in high-pressure environments.
  
• Excellent analytical organizational and written communication skills.
  
• Bilingual fluency in English (Spanish Farsi Dari Pashto and/or Arabic) is strongly preferred.
  
• Completion of required FEMA ICS (Incident Command System) trainings is mandatory prior to deployment.
  
  

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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color sex national origin age protected veteran status or disability status.