Senior Homeland Security Exercise Lead

Cadmus; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Job summary

Cadmus seeks a Senior Exercise Planning and HSEEP Expert to lead design, conduct, and evaluation of homeland security exercises for government and private-sector clients. You will coordinate with multi-agency partners to strengthen critical infrastructure resilience and policy foundations.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree and at least ten years of relevant experience, plus strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and analytical writing skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in emergency management, homeland security, national security, public policy, political science, cybersecurity, or related field.
• Minimum of ten years of professional experience with exercise planning, emergency management, homeland security, cybersecurity, or related fields.
• Extensive experience leading design, delivery, and evaluation of complex HSEEP exercises.
• Expertise in discussion-based exercise design and facilitation.
• Ability to advise clients on exercise strategy, program management, and improvement planning.
• Experience directing multidisciplinary teams and providing senior-level review of deliverables.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to ensure quality across multiple workstreams.
• Travel domestically as required; U.S. citizenship with potential for clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior exercise planning and HSEEP subject-matter expert for government exercise programs.
• Provide technical direction for design, conduct, evaluation, and improvement of complex homeland security and critical infrastructure exercises.
• Advise clients on exercise strategy, priorities, stakeholder engagement, scenario design, and evaluation methodology.
• Lead complex, multi-stakeholder exercises with federal, state, local, tribal, and private-sector participants.
• Oversee multiple workstreams and ensure consistency across products, schedules, and communications.
• Lead meetings and facilitate briefings, workshops, and after-action discussions.
• Guide development of scenarios, objectives, evaluation criteria, injects, After-Action Reports, and Improvements Plans.

Skills

Exercise planning

HSEEP expertise

Senior leadership

Policy analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in emergency management/ homeland security/ national security/ public policy

Master’s degree (preferred)

Job description

Cadmus seeks a Senior Exercise Planning and HSEEP Expert to lead design, conduct, and evaluation of homeland security exercises for government and private-sector clients. You will coordinate with multi-agency partners to strengthen critical infrastructure resilience and policy foundations.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree and at least ten years of relevant experience, plus strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and analytical writing skills.