Emergency Management Planner

This position is located at the Office of Emergency Management. The position requires extensive knowledge and understanding of emergency management concepts, principles and operations. This is an essential position which reports to and is supervised by the Director of Emergency Management or his/her designee.

 

The work is light work which requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

·        Balancing ability: sufficient to maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.

·        Crouching ability: sufficient to bend the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

·        Dexterity ability: sufficient to perceive attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

·        Handling ability: sufficient to pick, hold, or otherwise work, primarily with the whole hand

·        Hearing ability: sufficient to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.

·        Kneeling ability: sufficient to bend legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

·        Lifting ability: sufficient to raise objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.

·        Mental Acuity: sufficient to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.

·        Pulling ability: sufficient to use upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.

·        Pushing ability: sufficient to use upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.

·        Reaching ability: sufficient to extend hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

·        Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.

·        Speaking ability: sufficient to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.

·        Standing ability: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

·        Visual ability: sufficient to operate a vehicle by both day and night, to observe emergency scene actions taking place, observe traffic in the vicinity of an emergency scene, to read and write reports, correspondence, etc.

·        Walking ability: sufficient to move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.

 

Work is typically performed in a safe and secure work environment that may periodically have unpredicted requirements or demands. Deployment in emergency, disaster or crisis and may require personnel to operate in situations that present multiple hazards.

 

 

 

Candidates must complete a City of Annapolis application online at https://www.annapolis.gov/237/Jobs-with-the-City. The application form must be completed online by 11:59 p.m. on the closing date. Paper applications are available through Human Resources. Paper applications are due in the Human Resources office by the close of business on the closing date.

 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to political or religious opinion or affiliation, age, race, creed, color, sex, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation or genetic information. The City of Annapolis is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ADA Compliant Employer.