WATER RESILIENCE PLANNER

Concurrent Technologies Corporation

Arlington, VA

Minimum Clearance Required: N/A

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret

Employee Background Check Required

CTC is seeking a highly motivated and qualified technical professional to join our Water Risk and Resilience team. This mid-career role offers the opportunity to evaluate water system vulnerabilities, assess impacts on mission-critical operations, and support federal resilience planning efforts. The candidate will focus on developing and facilitating water resilience tabletop exercises and planning engagements, ensuring interactive, productive discussions among stakeholders, and synthesizing key findings into actionable guidance for federal agencies. This position also includes working closely with the Team Manager and client to assess program direction and shape strategic growth. This role is ideal for professionals with strong communication, facilitation, and policy analysis skills, and experience in tabletop exercises, emergency management, infrastructure resilience, or water security.

This is a hybrid position located in the Washington, D.C area, with the flexibility to work from home while participating in some in-person client and team discussions at or near our Crystal City office. Candidates are strongly preferred to be in the Washington, DC area or willing to relocate. Recurring in-office work may be required at the office (e.g., every Monday) at the client's direction.

This role provides a unique opportunity to develop expertise at the intersection of water system operations, facility resilience, and mission assurance-key areas for ensuring the security and sustainability of government and defense infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Exercise Facilitation & Planning
• Lead tabletop exercises for federal and military stakeholders, integrating water system security and cybersecurity expertise.
• Develop scenario narratives, injects, and discussion prompts focused on water supply disruptions, mission readiness, and emergency response.
• Facilitate discussions, synthesize input, and ensure productive engagement of diverse stakeholders.
• Collaborate with federal, state, and local partners to align exercises with national water resilience priorities.
• Policy Development
• Draft exercise summaries, action reviews, policy briefs, and recommendations for senior decision-makers.
• Conduct policy analysis on water resilience directives, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare briefings and white papers for senior stakeholders, including military leadership and federal agencies.
• Policy and Organizational Pathways for Sustaining Water Resilience Exercises
• Work closely with the client to identify, analyze, and recommend policy, organizational, and institutional pathways that will enable long term sustainment of water resilience exercising efforts by stakeholder organizations.
• Assess governance structures, program authorities, funding mechanisms, and mission owner roles that influence sustained exercise delivery and institutionalization.
• Provide strategic options that help the client transition exercise activities to stakeholder ownership while maintaining alignment with federal resilience objectives.
• Support development of frameworks, guidance, or implementation tools that help stakeholder organizations plan, execute, and institutionalize water resilience exercises over time.
• Engage directly with installation level, mission owner, and headquarters stakeholders to understand constraints, opportunities, and organizational dynamics affecting sustainment.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Public Policy, Emergency Management, Environmental Science, Civil Engineering, or a related field.
• At least six (6) years of experience in water utility operations, facility infrastructure management, or water resilience planning.
• Experience designing, facilitating, or evaluating tabletop exercises or workshops related to water systems, resilience, or emergency response.
• Strong public speaking and stakeholder engagement skills, able to lead discussions with federal, military, and local partners.
• Ability to interpret technical materials (infrastructure schematics, CCRs, risk assessments) to inform scenario design and exercise outcomes.
• Excellent analytical, writing, and communication skills, with experience preparing after-action reports, policy briefs, and recommendations for decision-makers.
• Knowledge of emergency response coordination and water infrastructure risks, such as cybersecurity threats.
• Detail-oriented, organized, and able to work independently or collaboratively in a facilitation team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Secret clearance.
• Master's degree in a relevant field
• Familiarity with DoD, EPA, and FEMA resilience policies, including AWIA requirements and military directives on water security.
• Experience leading or supporting tabletop exercises, workshops, or other major stakeholder engagements for government, military, or critical infrastructure sectors
• HSEEP certification or prior experience with FEMA exercise planning methodologies.
• Department of the Air Force (DAF) experience or familiarity with Air Force organizational structures is a bonus.

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