Under general supervision of the Deputy Chief – Emergency Management, performs work involved in building relationships with Bexar County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) partners and stakeholders.

• Serve as a liaison to staff, government agencies, community organizations, special districts, and private sector partners to represent the OEM’s goals and objectives.
• Collaborate with staff in the coordination, development, and maintenance of policies and procedures, annual reporting requirements, Inter-local agreements, annexation actions, and portions of comprehensive emergency service plans and products
• Utilize appropriate evaluation strategies/techniques to determine the applicability to the OEM on an organization’s identified efforts or gaps.
• Perform an array of technical, training, research, planning, policy, process, program assessment, and administrative activities to support the relationships between the OEM and its partners and stakeholders.
• Conduct or participate in related workshops, conventions, training sessions, public meetings, individual meetings, public awareness activities, seminars, and exercises to assist, develop, explain, or evaluate the OEM’s relationships with partners and stakeholders.
• Serves as part of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) during planned and unplanned incidents or events.
• May brief senior or elected officials with information on other organization’s activities.
• Coordinate with associations, boards, councils, courts, or other governing bodies to provide non-emergency support from other County Offices/Departments.
• Coordinates with Boards, attorneys and the District Attorney’s Office, Civil Section for legal issues
• May coordinate specialized training courses to OEM partners and stakeholders.
• Assist with monitoring, reporting, and updating the OEM’s legislative priorities.
• Maintain the OEM’s contact list of partner and stakeholder representatives.
• Prepares routine and special reports/presentations for the OEM on partner and stakeholder activities.
• Proactively provides information to partners and stakeholders on the availability of the OEM’s resources and capabilities.
• Participate in obtaining, documenting, organizing, analyzing, integrating, publishing, and distributing to appropriate partners and stakeholders a wide variety of data, planning guidance, operational concepts, methodologies, and strategies for accomplishing multi-disciplined, comprehensive, Bexar County OEM objectives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• In conjunction with the Bexar County Auditor’s Office, advise and assists local Liaison Officer’s with their analyses of accounting practices to promote compliance with federal, state and local standards for accounting and reporting and works with any of the Liaison Officer’s to provide technical assistance

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Public Policy, Accounting or a closely related field, and two (2) years’ experience business administration, management analysis, public policy development, strategic planning; or an equivalent combination of education and experience to include two (2) years of supervisory experience
• Must have knowledge of fire prevention, emergency management and medical services; extensive knowledge of federal, state and local government code; funding grants, procedures and administration; good knowledge of management analysis and techniques; good knowledge of budget preparation and financial analysis
• Strong knowledge of Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 775; Texas Government Code, Chapter 551; Texas Government Code, Chapter 418; Texas Government Code, Chapter 552, Truth-in-Taxation requirements, elections laws, local government code, Texas Public Information Act and Texas Open Meetings Act
• Skill in analyzing financial data for medium-to-large organizations; skill in communicating effectively, both verbally and in writing; skill in formulating recommendations and writing reports; skill in utilizing Windows-based word processing and spreadsheet software
• Ability to apply funding guidelines and interpret policy; ability to maintain and establish effective working relationships with co-workers, outside organizations, other County employees, Elected/Appointed Officials, other government agencies, and the public
• Must be able to complete training
• Requisite within six (6) months of employment to obtain certification in the following Incident Command system training courses: ICS-100, ICS-200, ICS-300, ICS-400, IS-700, IS-701, and IS-800
• Fulfill other Office training requirements outlined in Standard Operating Procedures and Guidelines within twelve (12) months of employment.
• Must have valid driver’s license, motor vehicle liability insurance and personal injury insurance
• Must secure and maintain a favorable background investigation and clearance
• Must clear a pre-employment physical and a pre-employment drug screen test
• May be required to work more than 40 hours during the workweek
• May be required to work weekends

Working Environment and Physical Demands:

• Working conditions are both inside and outside with exposure to temperature variations and possible inclement weather, as well as other conditions and hazards
• Ambulatory skills, e.g. stand, walk, sit (extensive), stoop
• Hand-eye coordination and arm/hand/finger dexterity
• Ability to speak, hear, smell, and exercise visual acuity
• Ability to perform effectively under relatively constant high volume, firm schedule situations
• Occasionally moves items weighing up to 50 pounds
• Infrequently moves items up to 100 pounds
• Driving requirements: Frequent (50%)