Senior Homeland Security Exercise Lead

Cadmus; Pierre (SD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k) program

PTO

Holidays

VTO

Tuition reimbursement

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Cadmus is seeking a senior exercise planning expert to support government exercise programs, focusing on HSEEP, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure exercises. You will design, conduct, and evaluate complex multi-stakeholder exercises and coach teams across federal, state, and private sectors.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in emergency management or related field and at least ten years of experience, with a preference for master’s level credentials.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in emergency management, homeland security, national security, public policy, political science, cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Minimum of ten years of professional experience with exercise planning, emergency management, homeland security, cybersecurity, or related field.
• Extensive experience leading the design, delivery, and evaluation of complex HSEEP exercises.
• Demonstrated expertise in discussion-based exercise design and facilitation.
• Demonstrated ability to advise clients on exercise strategy and program management.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior exercise planning and HSEEP subject-matter expert supporting government exercise programs.
• Provide technical direction for the 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 deliverables and communications.
• Lead meetings and facilitate briefings, workshops, tabletop exercises, and after-action discussions.
• Develop exercise design approaches and provide final technical and QA review of major deliverables.
• Guide development of scenarios, objectives, evaluation criteria, injects, reports, and improvement plans.
• Resolve technical, stakeholder, schedule, and delivery challenges with project leadership.
• Coach and mentor exercise planners and promote HSEEP quality standards.
• Support project leadership with planning, resource coordination, risk management, and client relations.
• Contribute to methodologies, tools, templates, and program-level recommendations.

Skills

HSEEP expertise

Policy analysis

Leadership

Public speaking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in emergency management or related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Job description

Cadmus is seeking a senior exercise planning expert to support government exercise programs, focusing on HSEEP, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure exercises. You will design, conduct, and evaluate complex multi-stakeholder exercises and coach teams across federal, state, and private sectors.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in emergency management or related field and at least ten years of experience, with a preference for master’s level credentials.