COMMUNITY RESILIENCY PLANNER

New York City Emergency Management (NYCEM) helps New Yorkers before during and after emergencies through preparedness education and response. NYCEM is responsible for coordinating citywide emergency planning and response for all types and scales of emergencies. We are staffed by more than 200 dedicated professionals with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise including individuals assigned from other City agencies.


The Planning and Resilience Bureaus mission is to prepare the city to respond and adapt to emergencies through collaborative scalable planning comprehensive interagency coordination and innovative recovery and Resiliency. The bureau includes Interagency Coordination with an assistant commissioner leading three units made up of subject matter experts in Health and Medical Human Services Critical Infrastructure Resiliency and Recovery with an assistant commissioner leading the Mitigation and Risk Analysis and Recovery units; and the Planning Unit.

The Risk Analysis and Recovery Unit focuses on bridging longterm strategies to reduce NYCs risk and increase postdisaster recovery capacity with with actionable operations and programs. This includes coordinating and guiding partnerships to develop strategies that analyze plan and address hazard risk and vulnerabilities as well as to prepare for efficient recovery operations. The unit is responsible for recovery planning the Citys Hazard Mitigation Plan and risk reduction tools and maximizing the Citys receipt of postdisaster housing recovery funding.



With latitude for independent initiative and judgment NYC Emergency Management seeks a candidate responsible for supporting and coordinating community resiliency planning which includes helping communities build an understanding of community risks and their appropriate mitigation actions as well raising awareness of recovery actions.


The Community Resiliency Planner will lead a collaborative effort to:

Support development of the Community Planning and Capacity Building component of the citywide recovery framework and other related recovery plans.

Maintain and develop the community section of the Hazard Mitigation Plan.

Serve as a representative for NYCEM and Cityrun community events that focus on recovery hazard mitigation and insurance (e.g. flood renters parametric) by promoting existing tools such as the Community Risk Assessment Dashboard Insurance Page and Recovery Page.

Develop tools and content that takes complicated recovery and resilience information to better communicate hazard risk and recovery to the public.

Work with academic institutions and studios to develop locallybased Hazard Mitigation Plans or other projects that help advance recovery and mitigation.

Work with External Affairs Human Services Intergovernmental Affairs and Community Preparedness to develop tools to support community recovery coordination.

Engage foster and support local organizing capabilities of faithbased organizations and community organizations to ensure that the whole community is connected in a meaningful way to the recovery planning process.

Support Community Engagement with the distribution of flood mitigation measures to community emergency network partners.

Manage and develop partnerships to augment risk planning recovery planning and needs to make a community more resilient from disasters.

Perform other duties as assigned by Risk Reduction and Recovery leadership


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The selected candidate will be assigned to an oncall Emergency Operations Center (EOC) team and will be expected to work nonbusiness hours during some emergencies. These nonbusiness hours include nights weekends holidays and extended week hours outside of a 9AM5PM schedule. The selected candidate will also participate in trainings to build skills and competencies in emergency response; will participate in drills and exercises associated with the oncall EOC team; and may volunteer to assist with Ready NY emergency preparedness presentations to external groups. EOC teams are on call for three weeks at a time with six weeks off in between.


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PREFERRED SKILLS

1. Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word Excel Access and PowerPoint).

2. Strong written and oral communication skills.

3. Existing productive relationships with key contacts in NYC faithbased and communitybased organizations.

4. Knowledge of and experience in applying the concepts theories principles and practices of emergency management and recovery to realworld situations.

5. Experience engaging community stakeholders.

6. Experience reaching consensus with multiple stakeholders that have different goals and opinions.

7. Demonstrated ability to deliver complex projects within specified deadlines.

8. Ability to work well within a team structure.

9. Flexibility towards shifting needs and priorities.

10. Technical skills including Adobe Suite and Web Development are a plus.

11. Fluency in a language other than English is a plus.

**Studies have shown that women people of color and other underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they are able to perform every task in the job description. We are interested in finding the best candidate for the job and will consider any equivalent combination of knowledge skills education and experience to meet qualifications. If you are interested in applying we encourage you to think broadly about your background and skill set for the role.**

Qualifications :

1. A fouryear high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a states department of education or a recognized accrediting organization and six years of satisfactory fulltime professional experience in one or a combination of the following: emergency management fire police or military service public safety public health public administration urban planning engineering or another specialized area to which the appointment is to be made; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of satisfactory full time professional experience in the areas listed in 1 above; or

3. A masters degree from an accredited college in emergency management public administration urban planning engineering economics political science the physical sciences or related field and one year of satisfactory fulltime professional experience in the areas listed 1 above at least two years of which must have been in one of those areas or another specialized area to which the appointment is to be made.

4. Education and/or experience equivalent to 1 2 or 3 above. However all candidates must have a fouryear high school diploma or its educational equivalent.

Special Note:
To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II individuals must have after meeting the minimum requirements one additional year of professional experience as described in 1 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime