Expanded Dispatch Coordinator

Duties

• Provides leadership and coordination in developing and implementing the expanded dispatch operation. Plans work objectives on a daily or project basis and makes adjustments to meet priorities. Adjusts shift lengths, staffing levels and work assignments based on changes to workload.
• Manages incident and administrative intelligence (eg. Fuels, weather, resource status, and reporting) to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of expanded dispatch operations.
• Coordinates and ensures that communication channels (telephones, email, radios and frequencies) with the incident and Geographic Area Coordination Center (GACC) are available, operable and afford a safe environment for incident personnel.
• Provides technical advice and staff support to Multi-Agency Coordination Group (MAC), Incident Management Team (IMT), and host agency as requested.
• Interacts successfully with Incident Management Teams (IMTs), Agency Administrators, Incident Business Advisors, Agency Financial/Administrative Officers, Agency Dispatch Managers, buying teams and contractors.
• Provides supervision for the Expanded Dispatch Supervisory Dispatcher (EDSP).
• Is a primary contact and has key responsibilities within various emergency plans (evacuation, aviation accidents, sever injuries, and fatalities, etc.).
• Appropriately describes/interprets contracts, agreements, MOUs, and plans.
• Conducts operations with policy/legal constraints.
• Monitors performance of incident support organization and dispatch/coordination systems (timeframes on orders, adherence to dispatch principles, cost effective actions).
• Manages external impacts (political/social/economic/sensitive issues, technologies implemented).
• Defines intelligence requirements (interface with public affairs, briefings, development and display).
• Advises agency and/or MAC (recognize and provide alternatives, provides data for priority setting, implement management direction, gathers and analyze data).
• Coordinates safe, effective and orderly demobilization of resources.
• Participates in and provides information for briefings and incident reviews.

Position Knowledge and/or Requirements

• Satisfactory performance as an EDSP, and
• Satisfactory position performance as a CORD.