Senior Homeland Security Exercise Lead

Cadmus; Hagåtña (GU); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability & life insurance

401(k) program

PTO

Paid holidays

VTO

Tuition reimbursement

Adoption assistance

Other benefits

Job summary

Cadmus seeks candidates to support homeland security exercises, shaping design, execution, and evaluation for government and private-sector clients. The role includes policy assessment, research, and planning, with occasional domestic travel.

We value experts in HSEEP, who can guide complex scenarios and evaluation methodologies while maintaining quality across multiple concurrent workstreams. A U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a favorable clearance are required.

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 in exercise planning, emergency management, homeland security, cybersecurity, or critical infrastructure.
• Extensive experience leading design, delivery, and evaluation of complex HSEEP exercises.
• Experience advising clients on exercise strategy and program management.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to review and ensure quality of deliverables.
• Ability to travel domestically as required.
• U.S. Citizen capable of obtaining Public Trust clearance or DHS Suitability.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior exercise planning and HSEEP SME supporting government exercise programs.
• Provide technical direction for design, conduct, evaluation, and improvement of complex homeland security and cybersecurity exercises.
• Advise clients on exercise strategy, priorities, stakeholder engagement, scenario design, evaluation criteria, and improvement planning.
• Lead multi-stakeholder exercises with federal, state, local, tribal, and private-sector participants.
• Oversee multiple workstreams and ensure consistency across products, schedules, and communications.
• Facilitate planning meetings, executive briefings, workshops, and after-action discussions.
• Lead design approaches and final QA of major deliverables.
• Develop complex scenarios, objectives, evaluation criteria, injects, and improvement plans.
• Resolve technical and scheduling challenges with project leadership.
• Coach and mentor exercise planners to reinforce HSEEP principles.

Skills

Senior-level leadership

HSEEP

Policy analysis

Written communication

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

HSEEP templates

Job description

Cadmus seeks candidates to support homeland security exercises, shaping design, execution, and evaluation for government and private-sector clients. The role includes policy assessment, research, and planning, with occasional domestic travel.

We value experts in HSEEP, who can guide complex scenarios and evaluation methodologies while maintaining quality across multiple concurrent workstreams. A U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a favorable clearance are required.