Leadership

Emergency Coordinator and Assistants (EC and AECs)

Emergency Coordinator (EC)

The EC has overall management responsibility for the SRQARES program to include;

  • Develop and maintain relationships with served agencies
  • Pursue memorandums of understanding and other agreements when in the best interest of SRQARES
  • Handles and/or delegate media requests
  • Work with a team of leaders to accomplish the goals of the organization
  • Seek training opportunities for the organization
  • Promote amateur radio and especially emergency communications
  • Provide regular updates, and communicates with the WCF section Emergency Coordinator, and local emergency management officials.

Assistant Emergency Coordinator (AEC)

This position is appointed by the EC and must be Level 2 qualified and an ARRL member.The Assistant Emergency Coordinator assists the EC, and assumes the role of EC in the absence of the EC.

AEC Operations

This position is appointed by the EC and must be level 2 qualified and an ARRL member. AEC Operations is responsible for:

  • Management and direction of the tactical emergency communications operations for all activations, drills, exercises and public service events.
  • Management and direction of the personnel assignments and conduct for all net management and mobilized functions.
  • Readiness of all technical capabilities and maintenance of all equipment that is utilized during an incident, event or activation.
  • Live instruction, drills and exercises for the purposes of training and continuous improvement.

AEC Planning / Training- These positions can be held by one person or two

This position is appointed by the EC and must be level 2 qualified and an ARRL member. The AEC-Planning responsibilities include:

  • Preparation of Plans and Procedures for event-based activations.
  • Ensure adequate resources are available for any incident or event at the MC ARES level of responsibility.
  • Compiling the Incident Action Plan (IAP) with revisions for each operational period.
  • Data gathering and analysis for Situational Awareness and After-Action Reviews
  • Defining and implementing a training curriculum.

AEC Logistics

This position is appointed by the EC and must be level 2 qualified and an ARRL member. The AEC-Logistics responsibilities include:

  • Equipment inventory, disposition and replenishment
  • Staging for additional resources and supplies for an extended activation.
  • Collaborate with repeater owners to ensure repeater resource availability
  • Status reporting of the infrastructure and equipment availability.

AEC Administration

This position is appointed by the EC and must be level 2 qualified and an ARRL member. The AEC-Admin responsibilities include:

  • Recruitment and Personnel records
  • Expense authorization and reporting
  • Liaison to all partners, county civic groups and local amateur radio clubs
  • Works with the PIO on messaging in order to appraise the membership of upcoming events, meetings or training.

AEC Communications

This position is appointed by the EC with consultation by the SERC President. This position, like the other AEC positions, should be level 2 qualified. This position is a bridge between the SERC organization and SRQARES. SRQARES utilizes the SERC Infrastructure for emergency communications; repeaters, gateways, digipeaters, etc.  The AEC Communications responsibilities include:

  • Weekly test of the SERC communication infrastructure
  • Notifying the SERC Tech Team of any discrepancies
  • Advising via groups.io when the discrepancies are cleared/ repaired