Key skills
Leadership
About this role
Role Overview
- Partner with teams to conduct open-source policy research and data analysis to support long-term recovery planning, hazard mitigation plans, grant funding strategies, and hazard mitigation grant application development.
- Support the coordination and operation of various large, complex federally funded programs focused on hazard mitigation, infrastructure, and housing resilience, from start-up through closeout.
- Serve in a subject matter expert role in FEMA HMA programs and advise state, local, and private non-profit clients on large-scale mitigation projects.
- Serve as a technical guide to develop hazard mitigation and long-term recovery and resilience strategies, including executing risk and vulnerability assessments and drafting grant funding roadmaps for project implementation.
- Develop and deliver presentations to client leadership and other contractors to support project implementation activities as requested.
- Lead internal project teams and provide oversight for technical work, including mitigation planning, project scoping, benefit-cost analysis, grant application development, hazard mitigation plan reviews, and grant management.
- Support key clients and projects with a focus on maintaining client satisfaction and proactively identifying opportunities for growth.
- Assist with business development activities, including participating in opportunity capture, proposal writing, white papers, opinion pieces, and other marketing support.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Planning, Public and/or Environmental Justice or Policy, Economics, or similar field.
- 8+ years’ experience conducting research, analyzing data and policies, managing grants, AND developing products such as state and/or local policies, plans, and FEMA mitigation grant applications.
- 5+ years of experience implementing FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance grants.
- Able and willing to travel (flight and vehicle) for work as needed.
- Must have a valid current U.S. driver’s license and can successfully pass a Motor Vehicle Records (MVR) check.
Benefits
- Reasonable Accommodations are available
- Equal opportunity employer