V-Tech Solutions Is Hiring!

COOP Planner – Subject Matter Expert III 

Pay Rate: $62.77 per hour
Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid – Remote and On-Site)
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:30 AM–5:00 PM
Workweek: 40 hours per week, subject to agency needs

About the Opportunity

V-Tech Solutions is seeking an experiencedContinuity of Operations (COOP) Plannerto assess, develop, update, and implement COOP plans. The selected candidate will strengthen organizational resilience and ensure essential functions continue during emergencies, disruptions, and unforeseen events.

Key Responsibilities

Program Assessment and Gap Analysis

• Review existing continuity plans, policies, procedures, essential functions lists, and risk assessments.
• Conduct gap analyses and needs assessments against applicable continuity guidance and organizational requirements.
• Identify operational risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and planning deficiencies.
• Recommend prioritized corrective actions to improve continuity readiness.

COOP Plan Development

• Develop and update high-level COOP plans.
• Document essential functions, orders of succession, delegations of authority, and alternate facilities.
• Address communications, cybersecurity, vital records, critical systems, and essential staffing.
• Develop reconstitution and devolution strategies.
• Prepare continuity concepts of operations, activation checklists, quick-reference playbooks, functional annexes, and reconstitution plans.
• Ensure plans use clear, active language and consistent terminology aligned with approved guidance.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Facilitate planning workshops, interviews, and working sessions with leadership, program managers, continuity coordinators, and external partners.
• Validate essential functions, operational dependencies, and recovery priorities.
• Maintain meeting notes, decision logs, action items, and document version control.

Training and Exercises

• Develop COOP training materials and briefings for executives, managers, and staff.
• Support tabletop exercises (TTXs) and continuity preparedness activities.
• Document exercise findings and support after-action reports (AARs) and corrective action plans (CAPs).

Documentation and Reporting

• Prepare monthly status reports covering progress, risks, issues, decisions, and upcoming milestones.
• Maintain planning documents, drafts, and final deliverables in an approved repository.
• Ensure version control, audit trails, and delivery of complete, editable source files.

Required Skills

• Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP).
• Business continuity and emergency management.
• Gap analysis and risk assessment.
• COOP plan development and recovery planning.
• Stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation.
• Training and exercise support.
• Technical writing and documentation.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and collaboration tools.
• Document management and version control.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise-level COOP planning, continuity operations, or emergency management.
• Demonstrated experience developing and updating continuity plans and conducting gap assessments.
• Experience coordinating with executive leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical, communication, organizational, and technical writing skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and collaboration platforms.
• Familiarity with applicable FEMA and federal continuity planning guidance preferred.
• Government or public-sector experience preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Availability to work 40 hours per week on a hybrid schedule in Washington, DC.
• Compliance with applicable security, confidentiality, and training requirements.
• Submission of accurate weekly timesheets by the required deadline.
• Maintenance of document version control, audit trails, and editable files.
• Ability to meet project deadlines and support required planning workshops, training, and exercises.

Why Join V-Tech Solutions?

• Competitive contract rate of $62.77 per hour.
• Opportunity to support emergency preparedness and organizational resilience.
• Collaboration with stakeholders on important continuity planning initiatives.
• Opportunity to apply specialized expertise in continuity planning and operational recovery.