Emergency Management Directors

What Does a Emergency Management Directors Do?

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.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Consult with officials of local and area governments, schools, hospitals, and other institutions to determine their needs and capabilities in the event of a natural disaster or other emergency.
• 2Develop and maintain liaisons with municipalities, county departments, and similar entities to facilitate plan development, response effort coordination, and exchanges of personnel and equipment.
• 3Coordinate disaster response or crisis management activities, such as ordering evacuations, opening public shelters, and implementing special needs plans and programs.
• 4Prepare emergency situation status reports that describe response and recovery efforts, needs, and preliminary damage assessments.
• 5Maintain and update all resource materials associated with emergency preparedness plans.
• 6Prepare plans that outline operating procedures to be used in response to disasters or emergencies, such as hurricanes, nuclear accidents, and terrorist attacks, and in recovery from these events.
• 7Develop and perform tests and evaluations of emergency management plans in accordance with state and federal regulations.
• 8Collaborate with other officials to prepare and analyze damage assessments following disasters or emergencies.

Required Skills

• Speaking
• Active Listening
• Writing
• Critical Thinking
• Monitoring
• Reading Comprehension
• Learning Strategies
• Active Learning
• Alert Technologies OpsCenter
• Digital Engineering Corporation E-MAPS
• Emergency Managers Weather Information Network EMWIN
• Emergency Services Integrators ESi WebEOC
• ESRI ArcGIS software
• Federal Emergency Management Information System FEMIS
• Geographic information system GIS software
• Graphics software
• IBM Lotus Notes
• MapInfo Professional

Emergency Management Directors Salary