Associate Director, Advisory – Preparedness Services

AECOM Advisory is seeking an Associate Director to build and lead a Preparedness Services offering within our Disaster Recovery practice. Preparedness Services helps governments, utilities, transit agencies, infrastructure operators and other mission-critical organizations keep essential functions running through disruption, and recover them quickly when they cannot.

The role sits at the intersection of preparedness, emergency operations and organizational performance, and it is designed for a leader who can both deliver and originate this work. You will establish Preparedness Services as a distinct, growing line of business, originate and capture new work, lead the teams that deliver it, and shape the methods, tools and thought leadership that define our offering.

Key responsibilities include:

• Business Development and Capture: defining and executing pursuit campaigns, serving as Capture Manager for proposal responses, and originating and shaping opportunities in continuity of operations, continuity of government, business continuity, emergency operations center (EOC) readiness and preparedness exercises
• Engagement Delivery: leading multiple delivery teams, providing outline, supervision and quality control over scope, assumptions, analyses and insights, and designing and overseeing training, testing and exercise programs
• Client Leadership: leading client interactions on delivery progress and insight validation, facilitating workshops, executive working groups and stakeholder alignment sessions, and managing inputs upward and laterally from regional leadership, Directors, Client Account Managers and technical experts
• Practice Development: building the Preparedness Services methodology, reusable tools and intellectual property, integrating Preparedness Services with the Disaster Recovery practice’s full-lifecycle capabilities, and supporting practice operational performance

Required competencies include strong interpersonal skills, a client-service mindset, poise, maturity and sound judgment in high-tempo, high-context, high-consequence environments, structured problem-solving, exceptional narrative development and written and verbal communication, self-directed and anticipatory leadership, and strong commercial acumen.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and at least 10 years of management consulting and/or related industry experience. An MBA or other Master's degree in Operational Research, Management, Management Science, Finance, Economics, Systems Engineering and/or related fields is preferred.