SUNY Erie Community College

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Program Competencies

• Comprehensive Emergency Management - Demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of all hazards, all phases of an Emergency Management Program.
• Management Skills - Plan, organize, develop and conduct training and exercises, implement program and be able to delegate.
• Leadership and Team Building Skills - Demonstrate the ability to integrate the different styles of leadership and influence and understand their impact on behavior in an emergency management context. Ability to explain the local, state and federal roles in emergency management.
• Networking and Coordination - Understand the need and demonstrate the Ability to network and coordinate with all levels of government, private sector, not-for-profit organizations, and volunteer organizations. Maintain and increase the skill and motivation of these organizations involved in emergency management.
• Standards and Methodology - Demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of risk management. Ability to identify and monitor hazards and risks, and identify opportunities to mitigate hazardous conditions. Understand and describe defensive considerations associated with biological, nuclear, incendiary, chemical and explosive incidents. Demonstrate an understanding of different modeling and the use of GIS applications.
• National Response Framework - Describe specific authorities and best practices for managing incidents that range from the serious but purely local, to large-scale terrorist attacks or catastrophic natural disasters and explain the common discipline and structures that have been exercised and matured at the local, tribal, State, and national levels over time. Understand the operation of Unified Command functions On a multi-jurisdiction or multi-agency incident.