Senior Homeland Security Exercise Leader

Cadmus; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k)

PTO

Holidays

VTO

Tuition reimbursement

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Cadmus seeks a senior professional to lead and execute homeland security exercises. You will design, run, and evaluate complex HSEEP-based exercises for government and private sector clients, provide strategic guidance, and facilitate stakeholder engagement. Domestic travel is required and you must be a U.S.

citizen eligible for clearance. Join Cadmus to apply your expertise in emergency management, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure, shaping improvements through After-Action Reports and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in emergency management, homeland security, national security, public policy, political science, cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Minimum of at least ten years of professional experience, with relevant professional supporting projects related to exercise planning, emergency management, homeland security, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, or a related field; preference given to those with experience in homeland security, emergency management, and exercises.
• 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, exercise program management, and improvement planning.
• Experience directing multidisciplinary teams and providing senior-level review of exercise products and analytical deliverables.
• Strong attention to detail, ability to review and correct one’s own work, and ability to perform quality control on client deliverables.
• Strong understanding of emergency management, homeland security, cybersecurity, or critical infrastructure risk and resilience.
• Exceptional facilitation, client-engagement, leadership, analytical, writing, briefing, and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical, operational, and policy issues clearly to executive and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, resolve complex issues, and maintain quality across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Ability to travel domestically as required.
• U.S. Citizen with ability to earn a favorable Public Trust clearance and/or DHS Suitability.

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 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, as applicable.
• 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 the 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 the development of exercise methodologies, tools, templates, lessons learned, and program‑level recommendations.

Skills

HSEEP expertise

Exercise facilitation

Client engagement

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s in EM

Tools

HSEEP certification

Job description

Cadmus seeks a senior professional to lead and execute homeland security exercises. You will design, run, and evaluate complex HSEEP-based exercises for government and private sector clients, provide strategic guidance, and facilitate stakeholder engagement. Domestic travel is required and you must be a U.S.

citizen eligible for clearance. Join Cadmus to apply your expertise in emergency management, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure, shaping improvements through After-Action Reports and