COOP Coordinator

Key Responsibilities

• Lead continuity planning activities, including identifying essential functions, critical dependencies, acceptable downtime, and recovery priorities for government operations.
• Organize and maintain contact lists, resource inventories, and continuity plan artifacts to support rapid activation and sustained continuity operations.
• Facilitate training, tabletop exercises, and functional exercises that validate continuity strategies, capture lessons learned, and drive updates to plans and procedures.
• Cookordination communications, accountability procedures, and status reporting for continuity personnel during events, including telework and devolution scenarios.
• Support disaster recovery and continuity preparedness by aligning COOP plans with IT recovery capabilities, devolution concepts, and alternate worksite arrangements.
• Maintain repositories and version control for continuity documentation to ensure accessibility, traceability, and compliance with applicable guidance.
• Collaborate with program, IT, and security stakeholders to integrate continuity requirements into operational processes and technical architectures.
• Provide after-action input and metrics on continuity drills and real-world events to inform leadership decisions and improve organizational resilience.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Emergency Management, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 4-7 years of experience in COOP, business continuity, emergency management, disaster recovery, or related risk and resilience roles.
• Strong understanding of continuity principles, risk assessments, business impact analysis, and phased continuity concepts (activation, alternate operations, reconstitution).
• Demonstrated organizational, project management, and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Active Secret clearance.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with federal or state continuity guidance and how it shapes agency-level continuity planning and reporting.
• Experience using planning tools or document repositories to manage and version continuity plans across multiple organizational units.
• Experience supporting emergency response or contingency operations in federal environments, including coordination with IT and infrastructure teams.
• Willingness and ability to support rapid activation scenarios and work extended hours during exercises or real incidents.