Senior Disaster Management Researcher & Quality Control (QC) Editor

Join our Deloitte AI & Engineering team to transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients’ success. You’ll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work you’ll do 

The Academic Partnership Program Coordinator & Analyst supports two lines of effort (LOE) within the Applied Research and Information Sharing (ARIS) Branch at the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM).

The first LOE supports the ARIS Research and Academic Partnership Program through administrative and program coordination assistance. This role maintains multiple research project timelines while supporting internal and external documentation and collaboration with students, faculty, and partner organizations.

The second LOE focuses on producing Disaster Management Reference Country Handbooks for select Asia-Pacific countries. These handbooks provide operationally relevant overviews of national disaster management capabilities and vulnerabilities, contributing to a broader disaster management knowledge base and supporting improved response coordination through best practices and lessons learned.

As a Project Delivery Specialist you will:

• Serve as the primary onboarding liaison for interns and students, coordinating with various CFE staff to ensure students are fully integrated and resourced upon arrival to CFE.  
• Conduct professional communications with academic partners, students/interns, international organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate meetings with partners, students/interns, international organizations, and stakeholders.
• Provide guidance to students on program requirements and respond to inquiries and concerns.
• Establish, manage, and maintain collaborations with program partners.
• Maintain student files and records. Analyze data and generate, support, and disseminate periodic (semester) reports.
• Coordinate marketing and outreach as needed (e.g., website updates, brochure development, outreach to other institutions).
• Coordinate, plan, and attend academic conferences.
• Develop dissemination plans for academic products to key stakeholders.
• Manage the intake of academic inquiries and applications through the CFE website, evaluate requests, and ensure timely communication. 
• Curate a list of strategic research topics to provide project options for incoming students. 
• Develop templates, spreadsheets, and collaborative/data management and information-sharing plans to support program operations.
• Provide educational resources and program expertise to internal and external stakeholders, including student groups.

The team 

Our Industry Solutions clients seek verticalized solutions that transform how they sell products, deliver services, generate growth, and fulfill mission-critical operations. The Industry Solutions offering delivers integrated business expertise with repeatable scaled technology solutions that are specifically engineered for each sector’s IndustryAdvantageTM.

Qualifications 

Required: 

• Masters degree 
• Active Secret Clearance
• 5+ years of professional experience 
• 2+ years of experience analyzing and synthesizing information, including writing and editing disaster management-related products..
• 2+ years of experience producing products that promote civil-military coordination during humanitarian assistance and disaster response missions and training.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Ability to travel up to 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Preferred: 

• Strong interpersonal skills and professional communicatio