City of Dawson Creek
Location
British Columbia | Canada
Job description
The Emergency Planning Coordinator leads emergency readiness efforts from planning to recovery, ensuring our community's resilience through robust plans, coordination of services, and stakeholder engagement. The Opportunity: The Emergency Planning Coordinator (EPC) is responsible for the City of Dawson Creek’s Emergency Management Program. The Emergency Management Program encompasses all aspects of the preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery measures of the City. The program includes components such as the developing and maintaining emergency response and recovery plans, coordination of emergency support services, organizing emergency training, emergency exercises, creating business continuity plans, and working with stakeholders to meet legislative requirements. This position will be consistently scheduled Monday to Friday; however, the coordinator will play a key role in local and regional emergencies therefore, shifts may vary dependent on the emergency’s size and duration. Key work areas include: Responsible for the coordination of Emergency Support Services, Plays a key role in Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) as required by the nature of the incident, Acts as a City liaison by communicating with federal and provincial regulatory agencies, and between City departments, representing emergency management issues, Develops regional collaboration and coordination for risk assessments, mitigation plans, communication plans and, where applicable, emergency response. This will include stakeholders such as the Peace River Regional District, South Peace Search and Rescue, First Nations Communities, the Ministry of Transportation, and the Dawson Creek RCMP.
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