Assoicate Director - Government Liaison

To coordinate multi-agency liaison within the government, to support the implementation of structured scenario planning and training program. The program will be part of a maturity plan that progresses through various phases, including workshops, tabletop exercises, and functional exercises, and will involve multiple internal and external stakeholders.

- Establish and maintain key internal and external stakeholder relationships.

- Support prepare workshop, tabletop and functional exercises documentation.

- Prepare Scenario Playbooks (response guidelines).

- Coordinate and facilitate scenario workshops, tabletop and live-play exercises.

- Validate operational and technical requirements for escalation and reporting.

- Validate operational command & control response structures.

Responsibilities:

- Establish and maintain key internal and external stakeholder relationships.

- Prepare workshop, tabletop and functional exercises documentation.

- Coordinate and facilitate scenario workshops, tabletop and live-play exercises.

- Validate operational and technical requirements for escalation and reporting.

- Validate operational command & control response structures.

Essential Experience:

- At least 15 years of progressive work experience in emergency management, ideally gained in a government setting in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

- Minimum 10+ Years experience as a senior officer / manager within KSA military, civil emergency services, or Government authorities.

- Extensive experience in planning, coordinating and directing functional training exercises for major multi-agency incidents.

- Experience of collaborating with stakeholders from government and non-government agencies including the validation of operational and technical requirements.

- Development of command-and-control response structures applicable for government and emergency service responder agencies.

- Extensive experience in leading post exercise structured debriefs for internal and external stakeholders, identifying lessons learned and consolidating gathered information into an appropriate post exercise report

- KSA national

- Fluency in Arabic and English