Key Responsibilities:
• Lead teams to conduct open-source policy research, data analysis, and GIS-based spatial analysis to support long-term recovery planning, hazard mitigation plans, grant funding strategies, and hazard mitigation grant application development.
• Serve as a technical lead to develop hazard mitigation plans, resilience strategies, and long-term recovery plans, including facilitating stakeholder and public engagement, executing risk and vulnerability assessments, integrating mitigation priorities with local land use and capital improvement planning, and drafting grant funding roadmaps for project implementation.
• Conduct and oversee economic analyses in support of federal funding applications and planning studies, including benefit-cost analysis (BCA) using the FEMA BCA Toolkit and FEMA-approved methodologies, BCAs consistent with USDOT Benefit-Cost Analysis Guidance for discretionary grant programs, and economic evaluations aligned with USACE planning requirements, such as National Economic Development (NED), Regional Economic Development (RED), and Other Social Effects (OSE) accounts.
• Develop polished, client-ready plans, reports, and grant narratives, including designing maps, figures, infographics, and other graphics that communicate complex technical and economic analyses to public audiences and decision-makers. .
• Manage internal project teams and provide oversight for technical work, including mitigation planning, project scoping, benefit-cost analysis, and grant application development.
• Manage key clients and projects with a focus on maintaining client satisfaction and proactively identifying opportunities for growth.
• Assist with business development activities, including participating in opportunity capture, proposal writing, white papers, opinion pieces, and other marketing support.