Consequence Management Advisor

Company Description

BryceTech has partnered with technology and R&D clients to deliver mission and business success since 2017. Bryce combines core competencies in analytics and engineering with domain expertise. Our teams help government agencies, Fortune 500 firms, and investors manage complex programs, develop IT tools, and forecast critical outcomes. We offer clients proprietary, research-based models that enable evidence-based decision-making. Bryce cultivates a culture of engagement and partnership with our clients. BryceTech is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Job Description

According to Presidential Policy Directive 8: National Preparedness (PPD-8), the nation must maintain a level of preparedness for the full spectrum of hazards and threats which face the country. National Preparedness requires efforts to be made across five mission areas: prevention, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) mandate is to build and maintain a capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards. Most of the preparedness efforts FEMA conducts are focused on all-hazards preparedness. Regardless of the cause, FEMA maintains the personnel, supplies, authorities, tools, and capabilities to respond to any hazard.

Challenges exist in executing the five mission areas against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) hazards. A framework for chemical incident response will not necessarily work effectively against a nuclear detonation. Health effects and the recognition of those effects differ among each of the CBRN threats. Different subject matter experts which may not reside within the Emergency Management community are required for each hazard to effectively advise the Agency on key critical decisions. Medical countermeasures exist for some CBRN hazards, but not for others. Complexities exist when managing the consequences of intentional CBRN events in conjunction with law enforcement interdiction and investigations. Depending upon a CBRN incident’s complexity and size, Stafford Act declarations may or may not occur, but still, require significant Federal interagency coordination and support to a designated Lead Federal Authority (LFA). CBRN hazards, therefore, pose unique problem sets requiring a dedicated team to research, collaborate, advise, and develop solutions for effective and prompt emergency management decisions to save lives, property, and the environment.

The FEMA Response Directorate CBRN Office is dedicated to planning, preparing, and building capabilities required to respond to a CBRN threat or incident. Unlike natural hazards, the impacts of a CBRN incident require FEMA to maintain unique capabilities to prepare for potential consequence management operations in the CBRN domain. The intent of this analysis is to conduct a holistic review of the CBRN enterprise within the Office of Response and Recovery (ORR), and determine how these programs contribute to FEMA’s fulfillment of its statutory requirements and maintenance of its core operational capabilities. The Response Directorate CBRN Office is a productive and well-run organization with a positive reputation amongst both internal and interagency partners. Over the last several years, FEMA has established itself as a leader in the consequence management areas of CBRN operations - building relationships, establishing credibility, and injecting FEMA’s capabilities and concerns into the overall planning and preparedness processes.

The CBRN Office Strategic Plan describes the mission, strategic priorities and objectives of the CBRN Office based on the September 2015 Response Directorate and Office of Program and Policy Analysis Program and Budget Review. This strategy addresses the importance of institutionalizing a centralized CBRN Office within FEMA, the significance of addressing both readiness and consequence management to CBRN threats, and to ensure efficient and effective business management practices to achieve key strategic priorities.

Position:

BryceTech is looking for an experienced Consequence Management Advisor, Domestic Emergency Support Team (DEST) Programs Analyst to support the DHS FEMA, Office of Response and Recovery, CBRN program, supporting the Office of Emerging Threats Professional and Technical Services Contract. 

Position Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with the Department of State, FEMA, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to incorporate the CMCU into consequence management support to relevant foreign activities.
• Update CMCU/DEST doctrine such as handbooks, guides, job aids, position descriptions, program and training and exercise plans as directed.
• Propose doctrine updates as needed.
• Collect exercise player comments from participants following exercises. Expect multiple internal and interagency exercises per year.
• Produce a Quick Look Report within 1 week of exercise completion.
• Produce an After-Action Report for Functional and Full-Scale Exercises
• Develop solutions to program gaps
• Staff solutions for concurrence as directed.
• Update crisis decision aids with decision points, references, authorities, coordination structures, and response timelines.
• Develop staff synchronization template.
• Review orders received by the agency to identify essential, specified, and implied tasks.
• Update a CMCU five-year training and exercise plan that progressively stresses the team to build capabilities.
• Provide support in the development of the DEST Program (DEST 2.0) concept by working collaboratively with FEMA DEST Program Management and other FEMA personnel, relevant interagency members, and the FBI to develop standard operating procedures and memorandums of understanding and agreement necessary to accomplish tasks associated with a PPD-25 scenario.
• Schedule and prepare DEST working group meetings with such products as agendas as well as capturing meeting minutes and due-outs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related area of expertise.
• Five (5) years of related work experience. Two (2) years of related experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Previous experience supporting DHS FEMA is required and DHS FEMA CBRN experience is highly desirable.
• TS/SCI clearance 

Additional Information

Position is contingent on the ability to pass and maintain DHS Suitability.

BryceTech offers a full range of benefits, including competitive salary, a comprehensive health plan including dental and vision coverage, company-paid life & disability insurance policies, 401(k) plan with company match, and an educational reimbursement program.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.