On-Call Disaster Response Planner & Resilience Lead

ICF Olson; United States; Remote; USD 67,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF Olson is seeking experienced emergency management professionals to join our Disaster Response Planning Section Reservist Cadre for on-call deployments across the United States. You will support disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience initiatives, including IAP development, planning cycles, and information sharing with incident leadership across EOCs, JFOs, and client sites.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in emergency management, with FEMA/NIMS ICS training, strong writing

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in emergency management, disaster response, preparedness, public sector government, military or related fields.
• 2+ years of professional experience actual response in incident management, emergency operations, or emergency planning functions.
• 2+ years of professional experience gathering, organizing, analyzing, and communicating operational information and data.
• 2+ years of professional experience producing reports, plans, briefings, documentation, or decision-support products.

Responsibilities

• Serve in Planning Section leadership or unit-level roles supporting disaster response, recovery, preparedness, and resilience operations.
• Support Incident Action Planning (IAP) development, operational planning cycles, contingency planning, transition planning, and demobilization planning.
• Collect, evaluate, analyze, and disseminate incident information to support operational decision-making.
• Maintain situational awareness and contribute to the development of a common operating picture.
• Develop situation reports, dashboards, briefings, executive summaries, planning products, and operational documentation.
• Coordinate information flow among incident leadership, operations, logistics, finance, and external stakeholders.
• Support resource tracking, accountability, status reporting, and resource management activities.
• Maintain incident documentation, records management processes, and official operational files.
• Participate in planning meetings, operational briefings, after-action activities, and other incident management functions.
• Support Incident Management Teams (IMTs), Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), disaster recovery operations, exercises, and emergency management initiatives.
• Assist communities and clients in preparedness, response, recovery, mitigation, and resilience efforts.

Skills

Emergency management

Incident management

Planning

Communications

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree / equivalent

FEMA/NIMS ICS 100, 200, 700, 800

FEMA/NIMS ICS 300, 400

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

ICF Olson is seeking experienced emergency management professionals to join our Disaster Response Planning Section Reservist Cadre for on-call deployments across the United States. You will support disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience initiatives, including IAP development, planning cycles, and information sharing with incident leadership across EOCs, JFOs, and client sites.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in emergency management, with FEMA/NIMS ICS training, strong writing