Senior Homeland Security Exercise Lead

Cadmus; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

PTO

Holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Cadmus seeks a senior exercise planning and HSEEP subject-matter expert to support government exercise programs. You will lead design, conduct, evaluation, and continuous improvement of complex homeland security, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure exercises, coordinating with diverse stakeholders.

This role involves advising clients on exercise strategy, managing multiple workstreams, and guiding scenario development, evaluation criteria, and after‑action reporting.

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.
• 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, program management, and improvement planning.
• Experience directing multidisciplinary teams and providing senior‑level review of exercise products and analytical deliverables.
• Strong attention to detail and quality control on client deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior exercise planning and HSEEP SME supporting government exercise programs.
• Provide technical direction for design, conduct, evaluation, and continuous improvement of complex homeland security, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure exercises.
• Advise clients on exercise strategy, program priorities, stakeholder engagement, scenario design, evaluation methodology, and improvement planning.
• Lead complex, multi‑stakeholder exercises involving federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, private‑sector, and critical infrastructure participants.
• Oversee multiple exercise workstreams or project teams and ensure consistency across exercise products, schedules, methodologies, and client communications.
• Lead planning meetings and facilitate executive briefings, workshops, tabletop exercises, after‑action discussions, and other exercise‑related sessions.
• Establish exercise design approaches and provide final technical and quality‑assurance review of major deliverables.
• Guide development of complex scenarios, exercise objectives, evaluation criteria, injects, analysis products, After-Action Reports, and Improvement Plans.
• Resolve complex technical, stakeholder, schedule, and delivery challenges in coordination with project and client leadership.
• Coach and mentor exercise planners, strengthen team capabilities, and promote consistent application of HSEEP principles and quality standards.
• Support project leadership with work planning, resource coordination, risk management, and client relationship management.
• Contribute to development of exercise methodologies, tools, templates, lessons learned, and program‑level recommendations.

Skills

HSEEP expertise

Facilitation

Leadership

Client engagement

Policy analysis

Critical infrastructure risk

Education

Bachelor’s degree in emergency management

Master’s degree

Job description

Cadmus seeks a senior exercise planning and HSEEP subject-matter expert to support government exercise programs. You will lead design, conduct, evaluation, and continuous improvement of complex homeland security, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure exercises, coordinating with diverse stakeholders.

This role involves advising clients on exercise strategy, managing multiple workstreams, and guiding scenario development, evaluation criteria, and after‑action reporting.