Impact Assessment Lead

Position Summary

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate disaster impact assessment operations, including the deployment and management of multidisciplinary field teams supporting disaster response and recovery missions.
• Supervise a cadre of engineers responsible for assessing physical damage to buildings, facilities, infrastructure, and related systems used by HHS ACF grantees.
• Oversee field assessments to determine facility impacts, operational limitations, potential safety concerns, and actions needed to support rapid return to operations.
• Maintain, and implement assessment protocols, field guidance, quality assurance processes, and reporting requirements.
• Coordinate disaster impact assessment and operational analysis activities to support preparedness, response, recovery, and continuity of operations.
• Support disaster human services field operations by ensuring assessment findings are communicated to appropriate stakeholders in non-technical language
• Monitor program performance, operational quality, data completeness, documentation accuracy, and compliance with applicable requirements.
• Implement corrective actions as necessary to address performance gaps, data deficiencies, operational challenges, staffing issues, or compliance concerns.
• Ensure field teams collect, validate, and report assessment information in a timely, accurate, and consistent manner.
• Provide operational updates, situation reports, assessment summaries, and decision-support information to OHSEPR leadership, program managers, federal staff, and contractor personnel.
• Identify mission risks, resource constraints, access issues, safety concerns, and emerging operational needs, and elevate them through appropriate channels.
• Support after-action reviews, lessons learned, and continuous improvement activities related to disaster impact assessment operations.
• Facilitate coordination among federal, state, local, nonprofit, contractor, and grantee stakeholders to support information sharing, recovery planning, and operational decision-making.
• Collaborate with client leadership, program managers, federal staff, and contractor personnel to support disaster preparedness, response, and recovery activities.
• Serve as a field liaison among federal, state, local, nonprofit, contractor, and grantee stakeholders to facilitate information sharing, operational coordination, and recovery planning.
• Coordinate with engineering personnel, data managers, logistics staff, reporting teams, and program support personnel to ensure effective mission execution.
• Participate in operational planning meetings, coordination calls, leadership briefings, and after-action reviews.
• Communicate assessment findings, field conditions, resource needs, and operational risks to appropriate decision-makers.
• Support alignment between field assessment operations, disaster human services activities, survivor assistance efforts, and grantee recovery priorities.
• Follow all health and safety guidelines in performance of work activities.
• Complete all required training.

Skills and Competencies

The candidate should possess the ability to:

• Lead disaster impact assessment operations from planning through deployment, reporting, and closeout.
• Manage and supervise engineering personnel and multidisciplinary teams in field-based environments.
• Translate facility damage assessment findings into actionable information for operational decision-making.
• Prioritize assessment activities based on safety, mission urgency, facility impacts, and grantee recovery needs.
• Maintain high standards for data quality, documentation accuracy, reporting consistency, and compliance.
• Communicate technical information clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Resolve operational issues, identify risks, implement corrective actions, and elevate critical concerns appropriately.
• Promote accountability, safety, responsiveness, and mission-focused performance across assigned teams.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, emergency management, public administration, planning, or a related field.
• Experience managing engineers, technical personnel, field teams, or multidisciplinary staff in disaster response, recovery, facility assessment, infrastructure assessment, or emergency management operations.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate field operations in dynamic, fast-paced, or disaster-affected environments.
• Knowledge of facility damage assessment practices, building systems, field data collection, operational reporting, and disaster recovery processes.
• Experience developing or implementing standard operating procedures, training materials, field guidance, quality assurance processes, or performance monitoring tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare reports, briefings, operational summaries, and stakeholder updates.
• Ability to coordinate effectively with federal, state, local, nonprofit, contractor, and grantee stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple teams, competing priorities, changing mission requirements, and geographically dispersed operations.

• This position may require travel to disaster-affected areas, grantee facilities, field offices, emergency operations centers, or other mission locations. Work may be performed in office, remote, hybrid, or field environments depending on operational requirements. During disaster activations, the position may require extended hours, weekend work, surge operations, and deployment within 48 hours.
• Enhanced background screening may be required
• May require 12-hour shifts