Emergency Management Officer Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 54038)

Description

Are you a dynamic, experienced emergency management professional passionate about supporting community safety and resilience? The City of Edmonton seeks a dedicated Emergency Management Officer to join our team.

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Emergency Management, you will play a pivotal role in developing, maintaining, and implementing the City's comprehensive emergency management approach. In an environment of increasing climate-related risks and a growing, diverse population, you will utilize the key emergency management functions of mitigation, prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. This vital work involves close partnership with regional entities (e.g., Alberta Health Services, Edmonton Police Services) in alignment with Government of Alberta standards. To build organizational capacity, you will take a leadership role delivering and enhancing the City of Edmonton's emergency social services program, ensuring that there are strong relationships, collaborative teams, and robust facilities and systems in place to respond to local emergencies. Be prepared for immediate and decisive action: this role includes participation in a demanding one week on, three week off 24/7 call rotation, essential for st

We encourage you to apply if you are ready to use your strong emergency management experience to support an evolving community's safety and well-being.

What will you do?

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the Municipal Emergency Plan, including developing and maintaining supporting procedures, guidelines and standards to deliver the emergency social services program in accordance with the Government of Alberta's Emergency Social Services Framework
• Maintain the City's Rapid Emergency Support Terminal as the City's flow through semi-permanent reception centre while identifying contingency plans should the City of Edmonton need to implement congregate living emergency accommodations
• Ensure there are trained and available staff to operate the Emergency Support Response Team, which operates on a 24/7 basis to respond to local emergencies and requests for assistance endorsed by the Provincial Emergency Coordination Centre
• Develop and mature relationships with community partners that augment the City of Edmonton's emergency social services offering to ensure that the specific needs of vulnerable populations are anticipated and reflected in operational practices
• Conduct hazard inventory and risk assessments in partnership with internal and external agencies (e.g., Edmonton Police Service) and determine how the results of those assessments influence the emergency social services program
• Develop and deliver complex emergency exercises and simulations (including annual tabletop and full-scale exercises) to test emergency social service response capabilities, coordinating multiple internal and external agencies (e.g. the Canadian Red Cross)
• Participate in the development of briefing materials to the Emergency Advisory Committee (EAC, or City Council in a specialized function) and the Emergency Management Agency (EMA, or the Executive Leadership Team, the Chief of Police, the Fire Chief and the Deputy Fire Chief of Community Safety and Risk in specialized functions)
• Cover a 24/7 Duty Officer call rotation, acting as the City's emergency management representative, and be prepared to recommend activation of the Municipal Emergency Plan — through this rotation, authorize the deployment of the Emergency Support Response Team to provide social services to displaced people, manage staffing/shifts for reception centers, and, when activated, assume a command position within the Emergency Coordination Centre