THIS IS A TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Position Summary
The Impact Assessment Lead coordinates, manages, and supervises a cadre of engineers and multidisciplinary field personnel responsible for assessing physical damage to buildings and facilities operated by HHS ACF grantees following disasters or emergency events. The position supports rapid evaluation of facility conditions, operational impacts, safety concerns, and recovery needs to help grantees quickly and safely return to operations.
The Impact Assessment Lead is responsible for coordinating disaster impact assessment operations during activated disaster response and recovery missions. This includes managing workforce readiness, field team deployment, staffing, training, operational reporting, data quality, and performance monitoring.
This is a deployable position. The estimated travel commitment is 100% when cadre is deployed.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Lead and coordinate disaster impact assessment operations, including the deployment and management of multidisciplinary field teams supporting disaster response and recovery missions.
Supervise a cadre of engineers responsible for assessing physical damage to buildings, facilities, infrastructure, and related systems used by HHS ACF grantees.
Oversee field assessments to determine facility impacts, operational limitations, potential safety concerns, and actions needed to support rapid return to operations.
Maintain, and implement assessment protocols, field guidance, quality assurance processes, and reporting requirements.
Coordinate disaster impact assessment and operational analysis activities to support preparedness, response, recovery, and continuity of operations.
Support disaster human services field operations by ensuring assessment findings are communicated to appropriate stakeholders in non-technical language
Monitor program performance, operational quality, data completeness, documentation accuracy, and compliance with applicable requirements.
Implement corrective actions as necessary to address performance gaps, data deficiencies, operational challenges, staffing issues, or compliance concerns.
Ensure field teams collect, validate, and report assessment information in a timely, accurate, and consistent manner.
Provide operational updates, situation reports, assessment summaries, and decision-support information to OHSEPR leadership, program managers, federal staff, and contractor personnel.
Identify mission risks, resource constraints, access issues, safety concerns, and emerging operational needs, and elevate them through appropriate channels.
Support after-action reviews, lessons learned, and continuous improvement activities related to disaster impact assessment operations.
Facilitate coordination among federal, state, local, nonprofit, contractor, and grantee stakeholders to support information sharing, recovery planning, and operational decision-making.
Collaborate with client leadership, program managers, federal staff, and contractor personnel to support disaster preparedness, response, and recovery activities.
Serve as a field liaison among federal, state, local, nonprofit, contractor, and grantee stakeholders to facilitate information sharing, operational coordination, and recovery planning.
Coordinate with engineering personnel, data managers, logistics staff, reporting teams, and program support personnel to ensure effective mission execution.
Participate in operational planning meetings, coordination calls, leadership briefings, and after-action reviews.
Communicate assessment findings, field conditions, resource needs, and operational risks to appropriate decision-makers.
Support alignment between field assessment operations, disaster human services activities, survivor assistance efforts, and grantee recovery priorities.
Follow all health and safety guidelines in performance of work activities.
Complete all required training.
Skills and Competencies
The candidate should possess the…