Senior Homeland Security Exercise Leader

Cadmus; Atlanta (GA); 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

Tuition reimbursement

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Cadmus, a leading provider of homeland security and policy advisory services, seeks an experienced professional to support upcoming homeland security exercise programs. The role focuses on designing, executing, and evaluating exercises, with some domestic travel anticipated, and offerings contingent on award.

The role requires a minimum of ten years in related fields, extensive HSEEP experience, and the ability to communicate complex issues to executives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in emergency management or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in exercise planning, emergency management, homeland security, cybersecurity, or related field.
• Extensive experience leading design, delivery, and evaluation of complex HSEEP exercises.
• Strong facilitation, writing, and client-engagement skills.
• US citizenship with ability to obtain public trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior exercise planning and HSEEP SME for government exercise programs.
• Provide technical direction for design, conduct, evaluation, and 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 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 deliverables.
• Lead planning meetings and facilitate executive briefings, workshops, tabletop exercises, and after-action discussions.
• Establish exercise design approaches and provide final technical and QA review of major deliverables.
• Guide development of scenarios, objectives, evaluation criteria, injects, AARs, and Improvement Plans.
• Resolve technical, stakeholder, and scheduling challenges in coordination with leadership.
• Coach and mentor exercise planners, strengthening team capabilities and applying HSEEP standards.
• Support project leadership with planning, resources, risk management, and client relations.
• Contribute to methodolgies, tools, templates, and lessons learned.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Exercise design

Policy analysis

Written communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's in emergency management

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

HSEEP

Project management

Job description

Cadmus, a leading provider of homeland security and policy advisory services, seeks an experienced professional to support upcoming homeland security exercise programs. The role focuses on designing, executing, and evaluating exercises, with some domestic travel anticipated, and offerings contingent on award.

The role requires a minimum of ten years in related fields, extensive HSEEP experience, and the ability to communicate complex issues to executives.