Emerging Professional: Homeland Security Exercise Designer

Cadmus; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Cadmus seeks candidates to support upcoming homeland security exercise programs for public and private sector clients, partners, and stakeholders. You will help design, execute, and evaluate exercises covering terrorism, cybersecurity, and natural disasters, with occasional domestic travel.

This is a proposal effort; offers will be contingent upon award. Cadmus emphasizes collaboration with experts, professional writing, and policy analysis, offering growth opportunities, comprehensive benefits,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in emergency management, homeland security, or a related field.
• Minimum of two years of professional experience on exercises or related domains.
• Foundational knowledge of emergency management and exercise planning.
• Strong research, analytical, organizational, and writing skills.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Support design, execution, and evaluation of Homeland Security Exercise programs.
• Develop 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.
• 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 skills

Analytical skills

Organization

Professional writing

Multitasking

Education

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

Tools

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Outlook

Teams

Job description

Cadmus seeks candidates to support upcoming homeland security exercise programs for public and private sector clients, partners, and stakeholders. You will help design, execute, and evaluate exercises covering terrorism, cybersecurity, and natural disasters, with occasional domestic travel.

This is a proposal effort; offers will be contingent upon award. Cadmus emphasizes collaboration with experts, professional writing, and policy analysis, offering growth opportunities, comprehensive benefits,