Freese and Nichols

Freese and Nichols

Strategic Initiative Leader – Disaster Resilience

Fort Worth, Texas

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
Data AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • As the Strategic Initiative Leader, you will champion a strategy that expands Freese and Nichols' role across the disaster lifecycle-from preparedness and mitigation to response and recovery.
  • Join our team of 1,300+ employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado.
  • Learn more about working here at Working at Freese and Nichols.

Responsibilities

  • Refine and implement Freese and Nichols' Disaster Resilience strategy, including growth priorities, market positioning, investment needs, and measures of success.
  • Own growth and revenue objectives for the Disaster Resilience initiative, developing and executing pursuit strategies across local, state, and federal markets.
  • Identify, advance, and support strategic pursuits, including emergency management, resilience planning, disaster recovery, infrastructure funding, and program management opportunities.
  • Identify capability gaps and develop strategies to address them through strategic hiring, staff development, partnerships, and targeted teaming arrangements.
  • Establish and maintain strategic teaming relationships that enhance FNI's ability to compete for and deliver complex resilience, emergency management, and recovery programs.
  • Develop and coordinate disaster funding strategies that help clients leverage federal, state, and local resilience and recovery funding programs.
  • Monitor emerging resilience trends, policy developments, funding programs, and competitive dynamics to inform strategy and maintain market leadership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, planning, emergency management, public administration, environmental science, public policy, or a related field.
  • Experience working with local, regional, state, and/or federal clients involved in disaster preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery, infrastructure resilience, or public funding programs.
  • Ability to translate complex policy, funding, technical, and operational issues into clear market strategies, client solutions, and actionable implementation plans.
  • Strong understanding of the disaster lifecycle and the relationships among preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery, funding, infrastructure planning, and long-term resilience.
  • Experience supporting disaster resilience, emergency management, hazard mitigation, disaster recovery, or infrastructure resilience programs for local, state, or federal agencies.
  • Knowledge of federal and state funding programs, including FEMA, HUD CDBG-DR/CDBG-MIT, Hazard Mitigation Assistance, and similar resilience and recovery funding sources.
  • Ability to translate complex technical, funding, and policy issues into actionable business strategies and client solutions.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing outcomes across multiple disciplines and organizational boundaries.
  • Minimum of 12 years of progressive experience in disaster resilience, emergency management, infrastructure resilience, public sector consulting, disaster recovery, hazard mitigation, flood risk management, planning, engineering, program management, or a related field.
  • Demonstrated success leading business development, client engagement, strategy development, and/or market growth in a public sector consulting environment.
  • Strong executive presence with the ability to build trust with clients, internal stakeholders, technical leaders, teaming partners, and firm leadership.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across practices, geographies, disciplines, and organizational structures.
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, writing, and presentation skills.
  • Preferred:
  • Experience developing, managing, or supporting pre-disaster advisory contracts, on-call contracts, technical assistance programs, or disaster recovery engagements.
  • Established relationships with public sector clients, emergency management organizations, funding agencies, and resilience stakeholders.

Compensation

  • Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at Benefits That Work for You ), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico and Banner Elk, North Carolina.

Benefits

  • Partner with technical and marketing leaders to develop thought leadership, client education, and external messaging that reflects FNI's expertise and credibility.
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