Responsibilities

The Emergency Manager, under general supervision, is responsible for performing emergency management work of considerable difficulty in planning, organizing, training, exercising, and coordinating emergency management activities.

Duties include budgeting, development of warning plans and operations plans for natural or technical hazards, and advising local government officials on disaster responsibilities and operations. The ability to respond to disaster or emergency situations at any hour, and remain on-scene or supporting command location for an extended period of time is essential, as is the ability to cope and function within a highly emotional and stressful work environment.