Senior Homeland Security Exercise Lead

Cadmus; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k) program

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Voluntary time off

Tuition reimbursement

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Cadmus seeks a senior exercise planning professional to lead the design, execution, and evaluation of homeland security exercises for government and private-sector clients. You will advise on strategy, design scenarios, and evaluation methods while coordinating multi-stakeholder teams across complex projects in the homeland security domain.

The role requires a decade of experience with HSEEP, strong facilitation, and the ability to coordinate among federal, state, local, tribal, and private

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in emergency management, homeland security, national security, public policy, cybersecurity, or related field.
• Minimum of ten years of professional experience related to exercise planning, emergency management, homeland security, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure.
• Extensive experience leading design, delivery, and evaluation of complex HSEEP exercises.
• Demonstrated expertise in discussion-based exercise design and facilitation.
• Ability to advise clients on exercise strategy and program management.
• Experience directing multidisciplinary teams and providing senior-level review of deliverables.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to perform quality control.
• Excellent communication, briefing, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior exercise planning and HSEEP subject-matter expert supporting government exercise programs.
• Provide technical direction for design, conduct, evaluation, and improvement of homeland security, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure exercises.
• Advise clients on exercise strategy, priorities, stakeholder engagement, scenario design, evaluation methodology, and improvement planning.
• Lead complex, multi-stakeholder exercises involving federal, state, local, tribal, and private-sector participants.
• Oversee multiple exercise workstreams and ensure consistency across products and communications.
• Lead planning meetings and facilitate executive briefings, workshops, tabletop exercises, and after-action discussions.
• Provide final technical and QA review of major deliverables.
• Develop complex scenarios, objectives, evaluation criteria, injects, After-Action Reports, and Improvement Plans.
• Resolve technical, stakeholder, schedule, and delivery challenges with leadership.
• Coach and mentor exercise planners and promote QMS/HSEEP standards.
• Support project leadership with planning, resource coordination, risk management, and client relations.
• Contribute to development of exercise methodologies, tools, templates, and lessons learned.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Facilitation

Policy analysis

Project management

Written communication

Attention to detail

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in emergency management

Job description

Cadmus seeks a senior exercise planning professional to lead the design, execution, and evaluation of homeland security exercises for government and private-sector clients. You will advise on strategy, design scenarios, and evaluation methods while coordinating multi-stakeholder teams across complex projects in the homeland security domain.

The role requires a decade of experience with HSEEP, strong facilitation, and the ability to coordinate among federal, state, local, tribal, and private