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. As an Associate Director in AECOM Advisory’s Disaster Recovery practice, you will establish Preparedness Services as a distinct, growing line of business. You will 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:

• Define and execute pursuit campaigns for Preparedness Services
• Serve as Capture Manager for proposal responses
• Originate and shape opportunities in continuity of operations, continuity of government, business continuity, emergency operations center (EOC) readiness, and preparedness exercises
• Lead multiple delivery teams of 5–8 Consultants and Senior Consultants across inter-dependent workstreams
• Lead delivery of preparedness engagements such as readiness program assessments and maturity models, plan and program development, business impact analysis, essential-function identification, EOC design, staffing and operations, and readiness reporting
• Design and oversee training, testing, and exercise programs
• Lead client interactions on delivery progress and insight validation
• Facilitate workshops, executive working groups, and stakeholder alignment sessions
• Manage inputs upward and laterally from regional leadership, Directors, Client Account Managers, and technical experts

Required Competencies:

• Strong interpersonal skills, a client-service mindset, and the ability to act as a trusted adviser to senior leaders
• Poise, maturity, and sound judgment in high-tempo, high-context, high-consequence environments
• Structured problem-solving
• Exceptional narrative development, written and verbal communication
• Self-directed and anticipatory, comfortable leading across a highly matrixed organization and managing multiple concurrent engagements or programs
• Strong commercial acumen and a willingness to hold an informed point of view on enterprise challenges involving people, process, and technology

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree (preferably in a STEM discipline) and at least 10 years of management consulting and/or related industry experience
• MBA, or other Master's degree in Operational Research, Management, Management Science, Finance, Economics, Systems Engineering, and/or related fields (preferred)
• Fluency with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
• Strong technical skills, including experience with one or more of the following software packages: ArcGIS, R, Python