This award honors an emergency management professional who has demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic vision, and unwavering commitment to preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation efforts. The recipient has made significant contributions to their jurisdiction, agency, or region through innovative planning, interagency coordination, public outreach, or incident management. This individual exemplifies the core values of emergency management and serves as a role model for the profession.
Emergency Manager of the Year Characteristics
This award recognizes and honors the individual or program that has demonstrated leadership, partnership, selflessness, and ingenuity in New Jersey emergency preparedness programs by investing time and talent to make positive change in our profession by:
- Providing leadership that inspires other members to excel or make the impossible happen;
- Developing and implementing new, highly effective and creative programs;
- Engaging in collaborative efforts to further emergency management programs and activities;
- Exhibiting dedication to the betterment of the emergency management field in the State of New Jersey as evident by substantially influencing emergency management efforts state-wide;
- Helping individuals grow and achieve goals and objectives as a mentor or leader of volunteers involved in emergency preparedness, response or recovery;
- Working for positive long-term changes within our profession;
- Applying innovative ideas and/or creative techniques that enhance local and regional emergency management programs;
- Managing extraordinary response and recovery efforts to major disasters;
- Demonstrating a significant impact on the emergency management field that sets him or herself apart through remarkable contributions in the professional arena and strong leadership within his/her community.
Eligibility
Any individual, or group, active in emergency management activities in the Lehigh Valley are eligible. The award is open to all who work in the field including planners, public health, NGOs, contractors, PIOs, first responders, etc.
- This award is not restricted to government emergency managers. It is intended to recognize the successful leadership of public or private preparedness and emergency management individuals or programs that have demonstrated leadership, ingenuity and selflessness.
- Individuals may be involved in public or private emergency management, preparedness, response or recovery efforts anywhere in the State.
Selection Process
Award selections will be based solely on the information presented in the award nomination, selection criteria below. Nominations need to be clear, descriptive and provide specific examples that demonstrate that the person/project/program meets the selection criteria. No self-nomination will be accepted.
The Nominator will be notified once an award recipient has been selected. This will occur after the nomination period closes and the committee has made a selection. LVESC will like invite the nominator and recipient and guest to the Awards & Networking Lunch held during the conference.