EOC Readiness Coordinator

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EOC Readiness Coordinator

City of San Jose San Jose, California, United States

Job Description:

EOC Readiness Coordinator

Description

Our diverse and inclusive workforce of more than 7,000 employees play a key role in the success of San José, the heart of the Silicon Valley. All City of San José employees work together as one team to make San José a vibrant, innovative, and desirable place to live and work. Visit here to learn more about our One Team Leadership Values and Expectations, including quality and excellent customer service and here to learn more about San José.

About the Department

The City Manager’s Office provides strategic leadership, which supports the Mayor and City Council while motivating the organization to deliver high-quality services that meet the community’s needs.

The City Manager’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is responsible for preparing the City and the community to effectively respond to natural, technological, and human-caused disasters while coordinating with the Santa Clara County Operational Area, the State of California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Maintenance and activation of the Emergency Operations Center and the Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) are primary tools utilized by OEM. In addition, OEM provides disaster planning, training, and recovery assistance to City departments, including state-mandated Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) classes for the Emergency Operations Center staff, Department Operations Center staff, and elected officials. To be comprehensive, OEM continuously monitors state and federal legislation that directly impacts the provisions of emergency services to the community.

Position Duties

An Emergency Coordinator is an entry-level position in the City Manager’s Office of Emergency Management. The position reports to either the Director or Deputy Director of OEM.

The EOC Readiness Coordinator - Temporary position is a 3 - 4-month limit-dated position, With a tentative start date of October 27, 2024. The incumbent will shadow and train with the current EOC Readiness Coordinator, who is anticipated to retire from City service in January 2025. The EOC Readiness Coordinator - Temporary position was created specifically to ensure a smooth transition and eliminate the potential for any gaps in service, as the EOC Readiness Coordinator position is critical to the City of San José’s emergency preparedness, response, and recovery operations.

The EOC Readiness Coordinator - Temporary would be responsible for supporting operations, logistics, maintenance, and administration of the City of San José’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), Alternate EOC, and Office of Emergency Management (OEM). [RR1][GA2][RR3] Duties involve maintaining operational readiness of EOC facilities and equipment, coordination with Department Operations Centers (DOCs) and other members of the City’s Emergency Management Organization, providing direct support to the Training and Exercise Program, participating in emergency planning activities, providing technical support to EOC facility operations and assignment to EOC Operations during non-emergency and emergency conditions.
Typical Duties and Results:
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Distinguishing Characteristics:

This is the entry into higher levels of the emergency management classification, where expertise is gathered in a specific field in order to progress into the more specialized class such as Emergency Planner. Initially, supervision and training are given in detail, but as an incumbent becomes more capable, he/she works with a higher degree of independence.

Position requires energetic, well focused, and detailed oriented personnel. Under general supervision, the personnel is responsible for analytic work of moderate difficulty in areas such as plans and procedure development; review and analysis of existing plans and newly proposed plans; generalized analysis of continuity between plans; organization and methods analysis; or personnel analysis. Performs additional work as required.

The assigned personnel requires a high level of professionalism, excellent customer service skills, and a strong work ethic. The position requires excellent judgment, initiative, integrity, analytical and organizational skills.

Minimum Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONSEducation and Experience Executive Analyst I: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in business or public administration or a closely related field. Executive Analyst II: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in business or public administration or a closely related field; and two (2) years of increasingly responsible professional staff analytic or administrative experience at the level of Executive Analyst I with the City of San Jose.
Acceptable Substitution: Experience as a Staff Specialist with the City of San José may be substituted for the education requirement on a year for year basis. Required Licensing (such as driver’s license, certifications, etc.)When assigned to the Office of Emergency Management:Background: Passing a San José Police Department background check is a condition of employment.

Other Qualifications

Basic Competencies:

Core Competencies:

The ideal candidate will possess the following competencies, as demonstrated from past and current employment history.Selection Process:

The selection process will consist of an evaluation of the applicant's training and experience based on the application and responses to the Job Specific Questions. Only the candidates whose backgrounds best match the position will be invited to proceed in the selection process. Additional phases of the selection process will consist of one or more interviews and a background investigation.

You will be prompted to answer the following job-specific questions during the online application process. Please note that there is a 4,000-character limit, including spaces, for each text response:

Please specify your degree, field of study ad the college or university where you obtained your degree You may also include any additional degrees or applicable certificates that you have achieved. Please describe your facilities management experience, including operations, logistics, maintenance, and administrative support. Please include your years of experience, your title, and specific responsibilities. Your response should be consistent with your work history.Please describe your experience with managing inventories, including any systems or tools used and your specific responsibilities.Please describe your experience working on complex plans and procedures which required you to gather and analyze data and information and develop statistical reports and/or summaries for use in process improvement planning.Please describe your experience in Emergency Management. If you do not have experience in Emergency Management, please describe any transferrable experience, knowledge, skills or abilities that would enable you to fulfill the duties of the position. You must answer all job-specific questions in order to be considered for this vacancy or your application will be deemed incomplete and withheld from further consideration. References to your resume will be deemed incomplete and your application withheld from further consideration.

Additional Information:

Employment Eligibility: Federal law requires all employees to provide verification of their eligibility to work in this country. Please be informed that the City of San Jose will NOT sponsor, represent or sign any documents related to visa applications/transfers for H1-B or any other type of visa which requires an employer application.

Please note that applications are currently not accepted through CalOpps or any other third party job board application system.

This recruitment may be used to fill multiple positions in this, or other divisions or departments. If you are interested in employment in this classification, you should apply to ensure you are considered for additional opportunities that may utilize the applicants from this recruitment.

Please allow adequate time to complete the application and submit before the deadline or the system may not save your application. If your online application was successfully submitted, you will receive an automatic confirmation email to the email address you provided. IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE THE CONFIRMATION, please email CityCareers@sanjoseca.gov and we will research the status of your application.

The City of San Jose offers a wide range of core health benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Life Insurance, Disability, and Savings Plans. Please visit the City's benefits pagefor detailed information on coverage, cost, and dependent coverage.

For information on the City’s Retirement Plan(pension for full-time employees), please visit the Office of Retirement Services website. You will be able to view information based on different Sworn/Federated job classification.

In additional to the benefits above, there is an additional perks siteto explore further benefits of working for the City of San Jose like paid leave, educational reimbursements, and holiday pay are specific to the job classification and union membership.

Closing Date/Time: 9/24/2024 11:59 PM Pacific

Salary:

$94,157.18 - $117,764.66 Annually
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