Exercises Manager

**Company Overview:** The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) is one of the largest public health agencies in the world, serving 8 million New Yorkers. We're tackling a broad range of public health issues with innovative policies and programs and getting exceptional results, but our work is never finished. The breadth of our innovative programs provides the widest range of choices for every member of our team. The selected candidate will be an employee of Public Health Solutions, a nonprofit organization which is the fiscal and administrative manager of the grant but will work be supervised by DOHMH. **This is a grant-funded position.** The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC Health Department)’s Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (OEPR) was created to promote DOHMH’s and NYC’s ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from health emergencies. OEPR is responsible for coordinating agency-wide emergency preparedness planning, exercises and training, evaluation of incident response and exercise performance as well as coordinating with community stakeholders, city, state, and federal partners. OEPR envisions a healthy, resilient city in which all New Yorkers are able to achieve and maintain optimal and equitable health outcomes before, during, and after emergencies. OEPR’s work recognizes the social inequities that can negatively impact our efforts to maintain and improve the health of New Yorkers during and after a disaster. OEPR works to improve its application of a social justice and racial equity lens to its emergency preparedness and response work to ensure the most equitable post-disaster public health outcomes possible. **Program Summary:** The Bureau of Agency Preparedness and Response (BAPR) oversees the development of emergency planning tools, training, exercises, and evaluation across the agency, and maintaining citywide situational awareness. **Job Description:** DOHMH has an opening for an Exercises Manager. Reporting to the Director of Exercises and Training, this position has overall responsibility for leading design and conduct, as well as supporting evaluation, of preparedness exercises of various levels (tabletop, drill, functional, full-scale) to test Agency plans/ procedures, capabilities to respond to various threats/hazards, and other priorities. **Speficially, the Exercises Manager will:** - Lead development and conduct of internal exercises of various levels (tabletop, drill, functional, full-scale) to test Agency plans/ procedures, capabilities to respond to various threats/hazards, and other priorities - Lead overall project management - Coordinate with stakeholders to support exercise development - Assist with development of exercise objectives, scenario, and design - Support development and review of exercise documentation - Coordinate with stakeholders, as appropriate, for input and/or participation in the exercise - Work with Evaluation Unit to develop exercise evaluation documentation, as appropriate - Support development of Multi-Year Integrated Preparedness Plan (MYIPP), outlining key planning, organizing, equipping, training and exercising priorities, including conduct of IPP Workshop (IPPW) - Assist with coordinating the agency’s participation in citywide exercises - Work with internal stakeholders and subject matter experts (SMEs) to incorporate public health perspective and staff into citywide exercises, as appropriate - Support citywide exercises, as needed or requested - Develop and maintain clear indicators for Agency leadership and staff related to exercise participation - Track exercise participation for leadership and other key positions - Develop meaningful indicators and track to demonstrate leadership and staff readiness - Provide technical assistance and/or expertise to other internal programs on exercise design and conduct, as requested. - Respond to emergencies, as needed **Qualifications:** - Master’s d…