Senior Homeland Security Exercise Leader

Cadmus; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Disability and life insurance

401(k) program

PTO

Paid holidays

Voluntary time off (VTO)

Tuition reimbursement

Adoption assistance program

Bonus programs

Job summary

Cadmus seeks a senior exercise planning professional to lead design, conduct, and evaluation of homeland security exercises and related activities. You will advise clients on strategy, scenario design, and improvement planning while coordinating multi‑stakeholder programs across federal, state, and private sectors.

The role requires extensive HSEEP experience, strong facilitation and writing skills, and the ability to travel domestically.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in emergency management or related field.
• 10+ years of professional experience in exercise planning, emergency management, homeland security, cybersecurity, or related field.
• Experience leading the design, delivery, and evaluation of complex HSEEP exercises.
• Strong facilitation, writing, briefing, and presentation skills.
• Ability to travel domestically as required.
• U.S. Citizen capable of obtaining a favorable clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior exercise planning and HSEEP SME for government exercise programs.
• Direct design, conduct, evaluation, and improvement of exercises covering homeland security, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure.
• Advise clients on strategy, priorities, stakeholder engagement, scenario design, evaluation methodology, and improvement planning.
• Lead multi-stakeholder exercises involving federal, state, local, tribal, private-sector, and critical infrastructure participants.
• Oversee multiple exercise workstreams and ensure consistency across products and communications.
• Lead planning meetings and facilitate executive briefings, workshops, tabletop sessions, 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, reports, and Improvement Plans.
• Resolve complex technical, stakeholder, schedule, and delivery challenges with project leadership.
• Coach and mentor exercise planners and promote HSEEP standards.
• Support project leadership with planning, resource coordination, risk management, and client relations.
• Contribute to methodologies, tools, templates, lessons learned, and program-level recommendations.

Skills

HSEEP

Facilitation

Leadership

Writing

Briefings

Education

Bachelor’s degree - emergency management / related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

HSEEP certification

Job description

Cadmus seeks a senior exercise planning professional to lead design, conduct, and evaluation of homeland security exercises and related activities. You will advise clients on strategy, scenario design, and improvement planning while coordinating multi‑stakeholder programs across federal, state, and private sectors.

The role requires extensive HSEEP experience, strong facilitation and writing skills, and the ability to travel domestically.