Strategic Fire Management Analyst

Duties

• Very high skill level in applying a wide range of concepts, principles, and practices to analyze complex fire situations and develop written explanations for use by agency leadership, partners, media and the public in explaining management of wildfires and their outcomes.
• Analyzes fire behavior models and explains them to agency leadership, partners, media and the public.
• Develops a chronology of preparedness and suppression actions, and predicted and actual weather, resource needs, resource availability, and fire activity.
• Researches fire suppression strategies, tactics, and safety practices during all phases of fire operations.  Considers alternatives and evaluates effectiveness of chosen strategies and tactics.
• Researches decision documents (WFDSS) for the response to large fires.
• Interviews Incident Commanders and Line Officers to determine decision making on fires.
• Briefs Line Officers and Fire Management personnel and provides critical evaluations of decisions requiring line authority.

Position Knowledge and/or Requirements

Expert knowledge of the following is required:

• Wildfire objectives, values at risk, and effective strategies and tactics which might be used to protect those values.
• Interagency prioritization processes for assigning and reassigning scarce firefighting resources and their relative effectiveness if assigned to one fire versus another.
• Local, regional, and national fire dispatch and logistics systems.
• Wildfire risk management and firefighter and public safety policies, practices and mitigation measures.
• Skill in acquiring and addressing public and media issues, concerns and criticism (local, regional and national) concerning agency response and management of wildfires.
• Ability/skill in acquiring, analyzing and synthesizing data and other information associated with initial and extended attack of wildfires.  Skill in explaining the context within the region and nation of local responses and long term management of wildfires.  Fire behavior and decision support technology.
• Fire management policies, practices, and standards.
• Tools to aid in Agency Administrator decision making.
• Fire models and their application.
• Incident Command System (ICS).