Early-Career Homeland Security Exercise Designer

Cadmus; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Cadmus is seeking candidates to support homeland security exercise programs for public and private sector clients, partners, and stakeholders. Successful candidates will design, execute, and evaluate exercise programs covering terrorism, cybersecurity, and natural disasters, with potential policy assessment, research, and strategic planning work in homeland security or public policy fields.

Some domestic travel is likely for this position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in emergency management, homeland security, or a related field.
• Minimum of two years of professional experience in exercise planning, emergency management, or related fields.
• Foundational knowledge of emergency management and exercise planning principles.
• Strong research, analytical, organizational, and professional writing skills.
• Proficiency with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.

Responsibilities

• Support planning, design, conduct, and evaluation of Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program exercises for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
• Develop exercise objectives, scenarios, meeting materials, participant communications, facilitator materials, evaluation materials, and exercise reports.
• Conduct background research and analyze information related to homeland security, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, emergency management, and exercise scenarios.
• Coordinate scheduling, participant tracking, document management, meeting support, and exercise logistics.
• Support planning meetings, exercise delivery, facilitation, evaluation, and after-action activities with government and private-sector stakeholders.
• Capture meeting notes, decisions, action items, participant feedback, and exercise observations accurately and consistently.
• Draft and revise reports, presentations, briefing materials, and other client deliverables using established templates and style requirements.
• Perform quality-control reviews for grammar, formatting, consistency, completeness, and adherence to project requirements.
• Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary project teams and complete assigned tasks within established schedules.

Skills

Research

Analytical thinking

Organizational skills

Professional writing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in emergency management, homeland security, national security, public policy, political science, cybersecurity, or a related field

Tools

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Outlook

Teams

Job description

Cadmus is seeking candidates to support homeland security exercise programs for public and private sector clients, partners, and stakeholders. Successful candidates will design, execute, and evaluate exercise programs covering terrorism, cybersecurity, and natural disasters, with potential policy assessment, research, and strategic planning work in homeland security or public policy fields.

Some domestic travel is likely for this position.