Senior Homeland Security Exercise Lead

Cadmus; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

401(k) program

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Cadmus seeks experienced professionals to support homeland security exercises, policy analysis, and strategic planning for public and private sector clients. The role involves leading design, execution, and evaluation of exercises, with some travel required.

Position is tied to a proposal effort; offers contingent on award. Cadmus provides competitive benefits and a dynamic, mission-focused work environment.

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 related field; preference for homeland security and exercises.
• Extensive experience leading design, delivery, and evaluation of complex HSEEP exercises.
• Expertise in discussion-based exercise design and facilitation.
• Ability to advise 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 perform quality control on client deliverables.
• Understanding of emergency management, homeland security, cybersecurity, or critical infrastructure risk.

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 cyber exercises.
• Advise clients on exercise strategy, priorities, stakeholder engagement, scenario design, and evaluation.
• Lead multi-stakeholder exercises with federal, state, local, tribal, private-sector participants.
• Oversee multiple exercise workstreams and ensure consistency across products and communications.
• Lead planning meetings and facilitate briefings, workshops, and after-action discussions.
• Guide development of scenarios, objectives, evaluation criteria, injects, and After-Action Reports.
• Resolve complex technical and scheduling challenges with project leadership.

Skills

HSEEP expertise

Exercise design

Policy analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Mentoring

Writing and briefing

Travel domestically

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Emergency Management or related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Job description

Cadmus seeks experienced professionals to support homeland security exercises, policy analysis, and strategic planning for public and private sector clients. The role involves leading design, execution, and evaluation of exercises, with some travel required.

Position is tied to a proposal effort; offers contingent on award. Cadmus provides competitive benefits and a dynamic, mission-focused work environment.