Emergency Management Legal Analyst/Consultant

Agency

Department

The Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) is an emergency response entity and this status can affect working hours, travel and change in duties as needed.

The Emergency Management Legal Analyst/Consultant, under general direction, provides legal consultative services, technical assistance, and event planning work. Work involves planning, developing, and implementing agency programs and providing legal consultative services and technical assistance to program staff, governmental agencies, community organizations, or the general public.  Work involves overseeing, drafting, organizing, and editing compiled information, including legal documents. Works under minimal supervision, with extensive latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. This position reports to the Chief HR officer.

This position will be limited to a duration up to eighteen (18) consecutive months. 

The salary is a fixed rate at $6,125.01 Monthly and $73,500.12 Annually.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participate in meetings and meet with staff to gather information. Draft, review, and edit documents, materials, notes, white papers, research papers, meeting notes, legal documents, and reports.

• Participate in obtaining, documenting, organizing, analyzing, integrating, publishing, and distributing to appropriate consumers and constituents a wide variety of data, guidance, operational concepts, methodologies, and strategies for accomplishing multi-disciplined, comprehensive emergency management objectives.

• Conduct or participate in related workshops, conventions, training sessions, public awareness activities, seminars, and exercises to assist, develop, explain, or evaluate comprehensive emergency management concepts.

• May develop and/or present specialized training courses to internal or external consumers.

• Prepare and refine legal and other material for speeches and other public presentations, hearings, and outreach events.

• Perform an array of technical, training, research, planning, policy, process, program assessment, and administrative activities related to assignment.

• Plan and schedule documentation delivery, to include arranging for the duplication and distribution of documents, publications, and reports in print and new media formats.

• Prepare responses to correspondence, reports, surveys, questionnaires, and other requests for information by senior TDEM leadership.

• Review, analyze, edit, and summarize documents, including legal documents; ensure all documents within the section are standardized and consistent in formatting.

• Research and provide feedback on new documentation tools and methods.

• Face-to-face and person-to-person interactions are required.

• Maintain a regular course of attendance during authorized work schedule and work extended hours when needed.

• Ability to travel (20%).

• Performs related work as assigned.

This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. Other duties may be assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education – Juris Doctor from an American Bar Association-accredited law school and bachelor’s degree.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s in administration, communications, education, policy, or a related field.

• Two (2) years’ related work experience.

• Working knowledge of, or the ability to rapidly assimilate information related to, TDEM, State and Federal laws, regulations, legislation, guidelines, policies, and procedures.

• Experience in law, the legislature, or state government.

• Proficiency with utilized software and systems (i.e., Microsoft Office, Salesforce, etc.) and able to learn new software/systems.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Working knowledge of, or the ability to rapidly assimilate information related to TDEM, State and Federal laws, regulations, legislation, guidelines, policies, and procedures. 

• Working knowledge of and the ability to understand and explain highly technical information and legal terminology, and the capacity to translate them into easily understandable language. 

• Must demonstrate an ability to exercise poise, tact, and diplomacy, and an ability to establish and maintain positive working/professional relationships with internal/external customers.

• Must be organized, flexible, and able to effectively prioritize in a multi-demand and constantly changing environment; must be able to meet multiple and sometimes conflicting deadlines without sacrificing accuracy, timeliness, or professionalism. 

• Must be able to construct and deliver clear, concise, and professional presentations to a variety of audiences and/or individuals.

• Must demonstrate ability to quickly and efficiently access relevant information and to utilize and/or present research and conclusions in a clear and concise manner.

• Must demonstrate an ability to examine data/information, discern variations/similarities, and identify trends, relationships and causal factors, as well as grasp legal issues, draw accurate conclusions, and solve problems.

• Must possess appropriate levels of proficiency with utilized software and systems and be able to learn new software/systems.  Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). 

• Must demonstrate an ability to responsibly handle sensitive and confidential information and situations, and adhere to applicable laws/statutes/policies related to access, maintenance, and dissemination of information.

• Must be able to work in safe manner at all times, avoiding shortcuts that have potential adverse results/risks, and must be able to comply with safety standards and best practices.

• Availability for after-hour, holiday, and weekend work is required, to include twelve (12) hour shifts during activations of the State Operations Center during emergencies and disasters.

• May be required to travel in- or out-of-state by vehicle or other mode of transportation, sometimes overnight or for extended periods.

REGISTRATION, CERTIFICATION OR LICENSURE:

Required within twelve (12) months of employment to complete the following training courses and obtain certification and license: Bar license in any U.S. jurisdiction,

Complete and obtain certification in IS-100, IS-200, IS-700, IS-800 and Professional Development Series or Emergency Management Professionals Program Basic Academy FEMA courses within twelve (12) months of employment and any other training as determined.

*Additional Military Crosswalk (occupational specialty code) information can be accessed at: http://www.hr.sao.texas.gov/CompensationSystem/JobDescriptions.

*Resumes are not accepted in lieu of an application.

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.