Emergency Management Consultant (Emergency Management)

Location: Cary, North Carolina, United States. Domestic travel up to 50% is required, with possible international travel based on project needs.

Company

hirify.global provides fire protection engineering, security, risk, emergency management, resilience, and related safety consulting services.

What you will do

• Develop, implement, evaluate, and improve emergency management, business continuity, crisis management, and organizational resilience programs.
• Conduct hazard, risk, vulnerability, capability, and preparedness assessments to identify operational gaps and improvement priorities.
• Develop emergency operations plans, continuity plans, crisis frameworks, response procedures, playbooks, and related documentation.
• Design and facilitate training, workshops, tabletop exercises, functional exercises, and other preparedness activities.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, deliverables, client communications, and multidisciplinary workstreams.
• Support client relationships, business development, thought leadership, and incident response or recovery activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in emergency management, public administration, fire science or protection, safety, business, healthcare administration, organizational resilience, or a related field.
• Professional experience in emergency management, crisis management, business continuity, organizational resilience, disaster preparedness, or a related discipline.
• Experience developing or improving programs, plans, procedures, training, exercises, or assessments with client stakeholders and frontline personnel.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams independently, collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, and deliver high-quality work under pressure.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, presentation, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and willingness to travel domestically up to 50%, with possible international travel.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in emergency management, public administration, business, healthcare administration, organizational resilience, or a related discipline.
• Public-sector emergency management experience with local, regional, state, or federal agencies.
• Experience with large-scale events, mass gatherings, healthcare or public safety organizations, or highly regulated environments.
• Consulting, proposal development, client relationship management, or account growth experience.
• CEM, AEM, CBCP, PMP, or comparable professional certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with multidisciplinary professionals addressing safety, security, risk, resilience, and continuity challenges.
• Opportunities to contribute to research, publications, conferences, webinars, methodologies, and professional organizations.
• Professional growth supported through Global Employee Networks and collaboration across the organization.
• Client-facing work across multiple markets, sectors, and industries.