Senior Incident Management Advisor - PTAN

About the role

GHD’s Fast Incident Response Services Team (GHD FIRST) is seeking a Senior Incident Management Advisor to support our emergency management and preparedness programs on a part-time, as-needed basis.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior subject matter expert in Incident Command System (ICS) and Emergency Management, providing strategic guidance to internal and client teams.
• Facilitate and lead ICS training sessions, client coaching, and after-action reviews for drills, exercises, and real-world incidents.
• Provide part-time/as-needed support for emergency response planning, tactical plans, and spill drills.
• Support or lead engagements with existing and prospective clients focused on emergency preparedness and response.
• Collaborate with GHD FIRST leadership to support staff development, training programs, and project execution.
• Portfolio Management: Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of a program or group of significant projects within a function, using an appropriate project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved.
• Project Scope Definition: Lead the planning and delivery of a wide range of information gathering and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on program and project deliverables, ensuring integration across the program.
• Leadership and Direction: Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
• Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across the program to identify relevant stakeholders, to create mutually supportive working relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice at both project and program levels.
• Project Risk and Issue Management: Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately at project level. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of the project, develop and agree on recovery plans.
• Project Team Management: Lead large project and program teams (or multiple small- to medium-sized teams); define the project/program vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; manage resources across projects/programs; negotiate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Project Resource Management: Negotiate and manage deployment of project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
• Project Assurance: Manage the delivery of assurance reviews within a project, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified, to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.
• Enterprise Business Analysis: Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level.
• Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units, such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.
• Transformational Change Management: Manage projects or substantial workstreams within a transformational change program, ensuring integration with related projects; use structured change management methodologies to build acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.
• Project Governance: Clarify roles and responsibilities within the project team and ensure project compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
• Project Benefit Realization: Develop and manage the delivery of a plan to evaluate and track business benefits and to identify actions needed to maximize them.
• Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Requirements

• 15+ years of direct experience in incident management, emergency response, or a related field.
• Certified and experienced in NIMS ICS Position Specific Training Program for multiple roles (e.g., PSC, OSC, IC, LOFR, PIO).
• Proven experience training or mentoring professionals in ICS and emergency preparedness.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to teach complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Experience working with or for railroads, pipelines, utilities, government, or industrial clients preferred.
• Ability to respond to urgent requests with professionalism and composure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level in emergency management, or a related field, preferred.
• Wide and deep experience providing expert competence (Over 10 years to 15 years).
• Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes (13 months to 3 years).

Skills

• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Excellent communication and teaching abilities.
• Proficiency in NIMS ICS Position Specific Training Program.
• Experience with project management methodologies.
• Ability to work independently and under pressure.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and industry best practices.

Benefits

Join a global network of skilled professionals dedicated to sustainability and environmental stewardship. Our commitment to continuous learning and development ensures you have the tools and support to excel in your role.

Pay

$40 - $100/hour

Schedule

This role is available on a part-time, as-needed basis.