Emergency Manager

Job Description

Become a part of SUNY Oneonta's trusted University Police Department and Public Safety Team as the Emergency Manager. In this key leadership role, you will report directly to the Chief of Police and undertake a wide range of important responsibilities. These include emergency organization, planning, and management, timely warning, population protection, and training and exercises.

The Emergency Manager develops, organizes, directs, and coordinates the University Emergency Management Plan with the goal of saving lives and protecting property by maintaining emergency operational capabilities that mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from an emergency or disaster.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Formulates emergency management policies and procedures related to the functioning of emergency services during emergencies.
• Plans, organizes, and coordinates the Emergency Management activities of those operating departments, agencies and offices of Federal, State and Local government which are responsible for carrying out response operations in an emergency.
• Coordinates planning and organization for the use of all public and private resources available to local government to provide the capability of dealing with the effects of disasters.
• Maintains a continuous review of the warning system and warning procedures.
• Serves as the communications planning coordinator for the University's emergency direction and control communications insuring proper design, coordination, maintenance and suitability for emergency operations.
• Develops and maintains a training and exercise program to prepare the Emergency Management Team for emergency operations.
• Prepares requests for federal financial assistance for emergency management programs.
• During emergencies, the Emergency Management Director assumes the overall responsibility for the operation of the Emergency Operating Center (EOC) and for advising the Chief of Police and Executive Team on local government emergency operations.
• Coordinates, prepares and executes State and Local government programs which involve the training and education of individual citizens and of business, industry, and private organizations in individual and collective response in an emergency.
• Maintains the Emergency Response Plan, Annexes, and operating procedures (SOP's) updated as required by SUNY and the University President.
• Prepares and submits Emergency Management reports to appropriate state and federal agencies as required.
• Serves as the liaison between Village, City, Town, state and federal agencies on Emergency Management matters.
• Maintains a reference file of general emergency preparedness, emergency response, national security, and similar emergency management publications as guidance documents.
• Creates Special Event Emergency Plans and operational plans for events.

Salary: $75,000 - $80,000 commensurate with experience. SUNY Oneonta is a Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) qualifying employer.