STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
HUMAN RESOURCES
CLASSIFICATION: EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT TRAINING OFFICER
Class Code: 4042-23
Date Established: 06-03-88
Occupational
Code: 7-5-3
Date of Last Revision: 12-28-01
BASIC PURPOSE: To organize,
coordinate, and conduct emergency management training courses for state and
local officials, private businesses and organizations.
CHARACTERISTIC
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
·
Implements needed
emergency management agency training courses and calculates the funding for
these training courses.
·
Prepares contracts
and agreements with instructors, adjunct instructors, and facilities at which
training courses are conducted.
·
Coordinates Emergency
Management agency training programs with federal, state, city and town
officials.
·
Provides direct
training program computer service to the Federal Emergency Management Agency
from the Emergency Management training computer.
·
Supervises training
courses and serves as course manager to ensure proper coordination of delivery
of training.
·
Determines which
students are appropriate candidates for training based on course content and
background of students.
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DISTINGUISHING
FACTORS:
Skill: Requires skill
in analyzing and interpreting data, policy and procedures OR in using equipment
in order to arrive at logical conclusions or recommendations.
Knowledge: Requires
logical or scientific understanding to analyze problems of a specialized or
professional nature in a particular field.
Impact: Requires
responsibility for achieving direct service objectives by assessing agency
service needs and making preliminary recommendations for the development of
alternative short-term program policies or procedures. Errors at this level result in
incomplete assessments or misleading recommendations causing a disruption of
agency programs or policies.
Supervision: Requires
direct supervision of other employees doing work which is related or similar to
the supervisor, including scheduling work, recommending leave, reviewing work
for accuracy, performance appraisal, or interviewing applicants for position
vacancies.
Working Conditions: Requires
performing regular job functions in a controlled environment with minimal
exposure to disagreeable job elements and little risk of hazard to physical or
mental health.
Physical
Demands: Requires light work, including
continuous walking or operating simple equipment for extended periods of time
as well as occasional strenuous activities such as reaching or bending.
Communication: Requires
reviewing summaries and reports and making management level decisions to solve
problems or to achieve work objectives as well as articulating and expressing
those solutions and goals. This
level also requires formal presentations of solutions and goals to employees
and the general public to increase the responsiveness of the agency toward the
demands of its client system.
Complexity: Requires
coordinating a combination of diverse job functions in order to integrate
professional and technical agency goals.
This level also requires considerable judgment to implement a sequence
of operations or actions.
Independent
Action: Requires objective assessment in
analyzing and developing new work methods and procedures subject to periodic
review and in making decisions according to established technical, professional
or administrative standards.
MINIMUM
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Bachelor's
degree from a recognized college or university. Each additional year of approved formal education may be
substituted for one year of required work experience.
Experience: Four years’
paraprofessional or professional experience in emergency management as an
instructor or training program manager, including scheduling, contracting and
public relations, at least two years of which shall have been in program
management requiring considerable contact with the public, and a demonstrated
track record applying initiative and creativity in developing programs
independently and carrying them through to completion. Each additional year of approved work
experience may be substituted for one year of required formal education.
License/Certification: None required.
SPECIAL
REQUIREMENTS:
For appointment consideration, Emergency Management Training
Officer applicants must successfully participate in a structured interview
measuring possession of knowledge, skills and abilities identified as necessary
for satisfactory job performance by this class specification. The structured interview is developed
and administered, according to Division of Personnel guidelines, by
representatives of the state agency in which the vacancy exists.
RECOMMENDED
WORK TRAITS: Knowledge of applications and uses of
modern training practices.
Knowledge of the basic trends and current developments in training. Ability to apply established practices,
theories, techniques and methodology of training programs in emergency
management. Ability to absorb a
comprehensive understanding of the overall program of the agency. Ability to communicate
effectively. Ability to establish
and maintain effective working relationships with employees working in an
agency and to solicit their cooperation in the overall training program. Must be willing to maintain appearance
appropriate to assigned duties and responsibilities as determined by the agency
appointing authority.
DISCLAIMER
STATEMENT: This class specification is descriptive
of general duties and is not intended to list every specific function of this
class title.
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