[Ares-races] Fw: [EMCOMM-BULLETIN] EMC0203 Positions open, OES ACS program

[David French, N7FAN]

FYI,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cary Mangum" <cary.mangum@macnexus.org>
To: "EMCOMM Server" <emcomm-bulletin@cesra.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 6:35 PM
Subject: [EMCOMM-BULLETIN] EMC0203 Positions open, OES ACS program


> California OES ACS is recruiting for two ACS Officers. These
> are volunteer leadership positions in the ACS program of the
> California Governor's Office of Emergency Services.
> 
> The criteria for both positions are the same. They differ as to
> the area served. 
> 
> One position is the ACS Officer for State OES Southern Region
> headquartered at Los Alamitos.
> 
> The other position is the ACS Officer for State OES Inland Region
> headquartered at Mather (Sacramento area).
> 
> This ACS (Auxiliary Communications Service) opening is a unique
> challenge -- and opportunity -- for an interested and talented
> volunteer to serve alongside OES staff, ACS Officers and ACS
> staff.
> 
> The overall goal of the State ACS program is to provide skilled
> communications volunteers to assist  governments - both state and
> local - with helping victims of emergencies, events, or
> incidents.  Of necessity the State ACS program has a twofold
> function: 1. Education, and 2. Operations.
> 
> 1. Education includes consultation, leadership, and example
> setting to and for the benefit of the Operational Areas and other
> agencies/jurisdictions at multiple levels in the use of
> volunteers in emergency  communications. This can be direct or
> subtle and includes meetings, seminars, and on-going materials,
> all of which are, in a sense, an inherent part of the position.
> 
> 2. Operations include providing - through established mutual aid
> procedures pursuant to state law - properly equipped and trained
> personnel, including FCC licensed amateur radio operators and
> others with professional communications related skills. This may
> involve Amateur or agency radios, computer systems, telephones,
> FAXes, and functioning as message runners and as support for
> emergencies, events, or incidents for emergency-response and
> relief agencies and organizations.
> 
> Other important duties that may be performed along side of, or in
> conjunction with the aforementioned ACSO duties, include the ACS
> Duty Officer responsibility and ACS Field Support which involve
> emergency response with the OASIS Satellite Trailers and OES Comm
> Vans, as well as Regional Emergency Operations Comm Center support.
> 
> The person selected will be involved in operations, planning, and
> decision-making within the ACS Organization. He/she will also be
> responsible for working with the Operational Areas (counties)
> within Mutual Aid Regions for the respective OES Administrative
> Region: (Southern: MAR I and VI; Inland: MAR III, IV, V)
> 
> Selection criteria include:
> 
> 1. Successful experience in management and supervision.
> 
> 2. Excellent public communications (oral and written) skills.
> 
> 3. Residence within a one-hour drive of Los Alamitos or Mather
>    as applicable to the position opening.
> 
> 4. Being willing and able to be assertive in taking a proactive
> stance in all that comes before you.
> 
> 5. Dedication of a primary responsibility to this agency and
> organization to the exclusion of other agencies.
> 
> 6. An ability to find and train capable assistants.
> 
> 7. Personality traits to undertake and succeed at the following
> responsibilities:
> 
> - Learning the requirements of the California OES ACS and about
> all types of emergency communications organizations and how they
> can work together.
> 
> - Learning about City/County/State emergency management plans,
> procedures, and mutual aid.
> 
> - Successfully contacting and getting to know (professionally)
> all personnel and agencies (public and private) involved (both
> professional and volunteer leadership) of the City, County,
> Region, State, ARRL Sections, REACT, etc., concerning amateur
> (and other) radio communications responses on or to incidents,
> emergencies, and events.
> 
> - Working with people who may absolutely despise you or your
> organization, while still being able to maintain a professional
> position; to seek common ground and positive results in all
> common undertakings, some of which will be determined by
> unforeseen circumstances, events, and/or your superiors.
> 
> - Being able to take and maintain an objective stance when
> questioned (possibly hostilely) about the organization and its
> position on anything related to the job and the organization.
> (After all, they may be right!)
> 
> - Being able to devote up to 40 hours (rare - usually much less)
> per month on the duties of the position without relinquishing
> part of your income or jeopardizing your family life.
> 
> - Doing nothing, intentionally, to inhibit, minimize, or
> eliminate success at any of the above.  (If unintentionally, then
> you must have the capacity to admit to it, and make an immediate
> and assertive effort on rectifying any possible negative
> results.)
> 
> - Willingness to make changes as required, to being flexible
> enough to provide the service to sponsoring agencies' needs.  No
> two incidents of the same type are ever the same.
> 
> - Ability and willingness to seek assistance and advice from your
> peers (from either inside or outside of the organization),
> superiors, and subordinates.
> 
> The position holder must do all it can to cast public service and
> public safety Amateur Radio in a positive way to emergency
> managers, congress members, representatives, mayors, aldermen,
> government board supervisors or executives, assembly members,
> government council members, public-safety officials, law-
> enforcement and fire-service officials, and/or others.
> 
> An ACS executive search group will interview applicants and has a
> strong preference towards holders of an FCC amateur license and
> to those who are retired, or close to retirement. It will also
> welcome unique skills that can cast a positive light on our
> organizational and operational issues.
> 
> Submit applications (to include a brief statement that you have
> read and understand the above; a related personal biography, one
> page or less; and a separate statement, one page or less, on why
> you would want to hold this position) and all your contact
> information (name, address, phone numbers and e-mail address, if
> you have one).
> 
> Submit, by December 10, 2002 to:
> 
> Governor's Office of Emergency Services
> Operations Support Branch
> Telecommunications Unit, 
> ATTN: Cary Mangum, State ACS Officer
> P.O. Box 419047
> Rancho Cordova CA 95741-9047
> 
> E-Mail: cary_mangum@oes.ca.gov
> 
> Questions? Use email address or OES Phone-916-845-8619
> 
> 
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