The Colorado Community College System (CCCS) is hiring a Director of Emergency Management to join our System Office. This is a great opportunity to bring your experience with emergency preparedness to an organization composed of over 35 campuses with different needs. We are looking for someone with real-world experience in emergency management who can lead teams across CCCS during high-stress situations. We provide generous leave, excellent benefits, and flexible work schedules, including hybrid-remote work within the state of Colorado.

Note: Travel throughout the state, including to our rural colleges, is required for this position.

In this role you will provide overall emergency management leadership to the 13 colleges (including campus police departments) and the System Office by ensuring awareness and compliance with applicable laws, policies, and procedures through effective training and development.

Duties Include:

• Establish and maintain productive communications and information flow between the System and CCCS campuses and among groups, committees, and teams systemwide on matters impacting emergency management.
• Carry forward ongoing emergency management initiatives suitable to the diverse needs of the System’s 13 colleges and the System Office to manage and mitigate risks associated with natural and man-made emergency situations faced systemwide.
• Act as a resource providing expertise to groups, committees, teams, campuses, and System leaders on matters impacting emergency management.
• Provide regular and ongoing on-the-ground support in developing and maintaining campus emergency management programs to colleges as necessary, with a focus on rural colleges.
• Serve as a liaison between CCCS and external agencies, assuring integration of the System and its campuses into nationwide and regional higher education emergency management and resiliency networks and federal, state, regional, and local emergency management initiatives.
• Investigate, evaluate, learn, recommend, and apply emerging technologies to enhance emergency management.
• Develop and/or coordinate training for students and staff and act as a subject matter resource for the System Office and CCCS campuses on a variety of topics including (but not limited to) man-made and natural disasters and emergency preparedness, violence prevention, and campus recovery.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university. A combination of education and/or experience in addition to that below may substitute for the degree.
• Three years of increasingly responsible experience in emergency management in law enforcement, school safety, homeland security, military, or related fields.
• Must have foundational FEMA Incident Command System (ICS) or National Incident Management System (NIMS) certifications.
• Must be willing and able to travel to locations across the State, sometimes with limited notice, including to locations where public transportation may not be available.

To view the full job announcement and to apply, visit the posting on our job board.