Title: Emergency Generalist - SAR Training #00633

State Role Title: Emergency Coordinator II

Hiring Range: $65,000 - $70,000

Pay Band: 4

Agency: Dept of Emergency Management

Location: Mobile/Region 1

Agency Website: www.vaemergency.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Emergency Generalist will serve as all-hazards emergency management generalist, supporting emergency preparedness, response and recovery operations across the commonwealth. While maintaining general all-hazards capability, the position will specialize in Search and Rescue training providing professional logistical and administrative support to a robust Search & Rescue (SAR) Program. The SAR Program provides resources, subject matter expertise, and training to numerous audiences to include locality law enforcement, fire & EMS, and Emergency Management for the response to missing persons and search and rescue events.

This position serves as the liaison and primary coordinator for SAR Program courses, which includes but is not limited to reserving training rooms, travel; preparing training calendar(s), training support materials, teaching aids and audio visual equipment. Ensures delivery of all materials and set up at training sites, conferences and seminars. Assists in coordinating Instructor/Adjunct Instructor effectiveness surveys, meetings and events; processing timesheets and travel reimbursement vouchers. Provides administrative support in maintaining the training calendar webpage, training records and filing systems. This position will also assist in the delivery of training programs, serving as a lead or supporting instructor for courses. Delivers excellent customer service in providing information, resolving issues and addressing internal and external customers, greeting visitors and in promptly answering telephone and email inquiries.

All VDEM employees are designated as essential personnel and may be required to work during emergency situations, such as inclement weather, and natural or man-made disasters/events as directed. This may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee’s official Employee Work Profile/job description.

Minimum Qualifications

- Knowledge of principles, methods and techniques of adult education and emergency management response training programs, specifically wilderness and disaster search and rescue.
- Working knowledge of a Learning Management System or similar system and of the exercise development process.
- Knowledge of state procurement policies in making travel arrangements and processing travel reimbursements.
- Skill in coordinating programs, managing administrative tasks, scheduling trainings and events, and maintaining organized filing and records systems while remaining detail oriented and able meet deadlines while ensuring accuracy.
- Ability to build collaborative relationships and serve as a liaison with internal and external stakeholders, including instructors, adjunct instructors, students, and various partners; deliver excellent customer service; and work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to multi-task and manage conflicting priorities in a fast-paced professional environment.
- Working knowledge of state, federal, and local wilderness and lost person SAR techniques and programs.
- Ability to perform as a Search Mission Coordinator for ground search operations.
- Considerable experience in responding and operating in support of rescue and recovery efforts for lost persons to include operating within federal and state SAR constructs on wilderness search and rescue and disaster search and rescue events.
- Experience and knowledge with the deployment and use of technical rescue, urban search and rescue (USAR), and swiftwater rescue resources.
- Experience and knowledge in responding to missing aircraft and emergency distress beacons.
- Ability to coordinate resources from a state or regional coordination center for larger events.
- Ability to deploy and operate in austere environments for extended periods on incidents both within the state and across the nation.

Additional Considerations

- Associates Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in business administration or a related discipline is preferred. An equivalent combination of training and experience may substitute for a degree.
- Some experience with response training programs in an adult education or academic setting and public safety or similar state government experience is preferred.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

In consultation with supervision, attends in a timely manner and successfully completes all available training that has been identified for the position related to the primary job duties, emergency response role, and as a VDEM employee in general.

Applications will only be accepted on-line through the State Job website. Applications must include all work history and references. The decision to interview an applicant is solely based on the information provided in the application materials. Therefore, it is essential to provide enough information to make this assessment.

Employment is contingent upon satisfactory results of a fingerprint-based criminal history background check, Division of Motor Vehicle check, employment reference check, and E-Verify. The selected candidate must complete a State of Personal Economic Interests as a condition of employment, if applicable (Va. Code 2.2-3114). Other financial, credit, driving, or degree verification checks prior to employment may be required for certain positions. A one-year probationary period is required of all newly hired and re-hired Commonwealth of Virginia employees.

The salary for this position is negotiable up to the maximum hiring range listed in this posting. Offers will not be made outside of the hiring range. 

Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during application and/or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act. Minorities, Individuals with disabilities, Veterans, and people with National Service experience are encouraged to apply.

VDEM does not provide sponsorship to prospective or current employees. Applicants applying for a position with our agency must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of employment.

The Virginia Department of Emergency Management is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Contact Information

Name: Human Resources

Phone: (804) 366-7942

Email: Recruitment@vdem.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.