Job Description

The Director, Emergency Management and Preparedness (Texas), leads Chemonics' market development, client engagement, and strategic positioning across the state's emergency management and preparedness ecosystem. Serving as Chemonics' senior in-state representative for this market, the Director develops and executes the state emergency management growth strategy, cultivates trusted relationships with public-sector and community stakeholders, shapes a qualified pipeline of opportunities, and helps position Chemonics for sustained success in preparedness, response, recovery, mitigation, resilience, and grant-funded programs.

The Director maintains senior relationships with the state emergency management agency, county and municipal emergency management agencies, regional and special-purpose entities, healthcare coalitions, community-based organizations, private-sector partners, and other stakeholders. The role requires strong knowledge of the state's emergency management environment, demonstrated field credibility, and the ability to translate client needs and market intelligence into actionable growth, partnership, and delivery strategies.

The Director is accountable for the development and health of Chemonics' emergency management portfolio within the assigned state. The position recommends market priorities, identifies and shapes opportunities, advises leadership on investments and pursuit decisions, supports the formation of competitive teams, and provides senior technical and contextual guidance for proposals and project delivery.

The position emphasizes senior market leadership, client trust, portfolio development, and emergency management expertise. The Director is accountable for ensuring that Chemonics' pursuits reflect credible state-specific strategies, relationships, partners, operating realities, and technical approaches.

Responsibilities

• State Market Strategy and Portfolio Leadership: Develops and leads implementation of Chemonics' emergency management and preparedness market strategy within the assigned state.
• Senior Client and Stakeholder Engagement: Serves as Chemonics' senior relationship lead for emergency management and preparedness stakeholders within the assigned state.
• Pipeline Development and Opportunity Shaping: Leads development and management of a qualified pipeline of state and local emergency management opportunities within the assigned market.
• Partner and Ecosystem Development: Develops and manages a strategic network of state and regional firms, consultants, nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, academic institutions, and technical specialists.
• Capture and Proposal Leadership: Serves as a senior capture and technical advisor for priority pursuits.
• Technical and Operational Leadership: Provides senior technical guidance related to state and local emergency management systems, EOC operations, preparedness planning, response coordination, disaster recovery, FEMA programs, mitigation, exercises, training, and grant-funded programs.
• Thought Leadership and External Representation: Shapes Chemonics' external positioning on state and local emergency management and preparedness issues.
• Internal Coordination and Leadership: Coordinates state market activities across the unit and division, technical practices, proposal teams, project teams, and corporate support functions.
• Management, Compliance, and Risk: Exercises sound judgment when representing Chemonics and developing business in sensitive or rapidly changing emergency management environments.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in emergency management, public administration, public policy, business, planning, homeland security, or a related field plus a minimum of eight years of progressively responsible relevant experience.
• Demonstrated professional experience within the emergency management environment of the assigned state or a comparable state and local emergency management system.
• Strong understanding of state and local emergency management structures, including the roles of state agencies, counties, municipalities, regional entities, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector.
• Experience in emergency preparedness, response, recovery, mitigation, resilience, grants management, disaster operations, or related disciplines.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ten or more years of progressively responsible experience in emergency management, disaster recovery, public-sector consulting, or a related field.
• Prior service in a leadership position within a state or local emergency management agency, EOC, disaster recovery organization, or comparable public-sector environment.

Application Instructions

Please submit your electronic application and resume by 11/16/2026. No telephone inquiries, please. Chemonics will contact short-listed candidates.

Compensation Range

$100,400.00 - $125,600.00