Disaster Management Research Analyst Jobs (NOW HIRING)

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

Key Responsibilities:

Applied Research & Written Product Development

• Conduct research, analysis, and synthesis of disaster management data and information to produce accurate, comprehensive publications aligned to client-specific style and content requirements, including international civil-military coordination contexts.
• Produce a wide range of disaster management and humanitarian assistance materials, including: 
• Fact sheets, case studies, best practices, research articles, and research studies
• Disaster management reference country handbooks
• Briefings, presentations, memos, information/policy papers, planning documents, and conference materials
• Professional journal publications, situation reports, after action reports, and time-sensitive requests for information (RFIs)

Case Study and Training Content Support

• Design and develop operationally relevant disaster response case studies for use in training modules.
• Support civil-military training, exercises, operations, short-/long-term planning, and assessments in alignment with the theater campaign plan by researching, sharing information, and exchanging best practices.

Collaboration, Review Cycles & Quality Editing

• Collaborate with subject matter experts (SMEs) to collect and validate information, verify data integrity, and ensure analytic accuracy.
• Facilitate integration of external feedback into documents; review comments, recommend improvements, and ensure products meet target audience needs.
• Edit research products for logical flow, clarity, completeness, grammar, punctuation, and content quality.
• Coordinate with graphics/design staff to ensure drafts meet final production standards for web and print publication; directly support print production and inventory of information products.

Academic Partnerships, Outreach & Knowledge Sharing

• Support the Academic Partnership Program by cultivating academic partnerships and facilitating information exchange with universities, students/interns, academic partners, international organizations, and related networks.
• Update data management and information-sharing plans to support program operations. 
• Coordinate marketing and outreach activities as needed, including website updates, brochure/report development, social media and newsletter content, and engagement with external institutions.
• Provide guidance to students on their research papers; edit/revise academic papers to translate findings into practical DMHA recommendations.
• Coordinate with various staff to ensure students are fully integrated and resourced; answer academic inquiries; curate a list of strategic research topics to provide project options for incoming students. 

Stakeholder Engagement, Program Operations & Events

• Liaise with other branches and engage staff with relevant expertise, relationships, or country/subject knowledge.
• Organize and facilitate events, training sessions, and exercises tied to product development and dissemination.
• Prepare and deliver presentations/briefings at academic engagements, workshops, and exercises.
• Attend regular meetings, and maintain an updated task/to-do deliverables dashboard to leadership
• Directly support print production and inventory of information products, unpack boxes of products, event set up, and other duties as assigned. 

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

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.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required: 

• Master's degree required.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
• 5+ years of experience analyzing and synthesizing information, including writing and editing disaster research products.
• 2+ years of experience preparing and presenting reports, briefings, and presentations.
• 2+ years of experience prioritizing multiple concurrent tasks, manage shifting timelines, and maintaining strong time management and delivery discipline.
• 2+ years of experience developing products that promote civil-military coordination during humanitarian assistance and disaster response missions and training.
• 2+ years of experience with public speaking, facilitation, and presenting to varied audiences.
• 1+ years of experience using AI to help update documents and work products.
• Must be able to work onsite on Ford Island, Oahu, Hawaii, with a standard Monday-Friday schedule (8 hours/day, 40 hours/week). This is not a tele-work position. 
• Travel is required (CONUS and OCONUS), up to 20%, supporting engagements, trainings, exercises, and other whole-of-Center activities.

Preferred: 

• An active Secret security clearance.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $93,200 to $155,400.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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

Key Responsibilities:

Applied Research & Written Product Development

• Conduct research, analysis, and synthesis of disaster management data and information to produce accurate, comprehensive publications aligned to client-specific style and content requirements, including international civil-military coordination contexts.
• Produce a wide range of disaster management and humanitarian assistance materials, including: 
• Fact sheets, case studies, best practices, research articles, and research studies
• Disaster management reference country handbooks
• Briefings, presentations, memos, information/policy papers, planning documents, and conference materials
• Professional journal publications, situation reports, after action reports, and time-sensitive requests for information (RFIs)

Case Study and Training Content Support

• Design and develop operationally relevant disaster response case studies for use in training modules.
• Support civil-military training, exercises, operations, short-/long-term planning, and assessments in alignment with the theater campaign plan by researching, sharing information, and exchanging best practices.

Collaboration, Review Cycles & Quality Editing

• Collaborate with subject matter experts (SMEs) to collect and validate information, verify data integrity, and ensure analytic accuracy.
• Facilitate integration of external feedback into documents; review comments, recommend improvements, and ensure products meet target audience needs.
• Edit research products for logical flow, clarity, completeness, grammar, punctuation, and content quality.
• Coordinate with graphics/design staff to ensure drafts meet final production standards for web and print publication; directly support print production and inventory of information products.

Academic Partnerships, Outreach & Knowledge Sharing

• Support the Academic Partnership Program by cultivating academic partnerships and facilitating information exchange with universities, students/interns, academic partners, international organizations, and related networks.
• Update data management and information-sharing plans to support program operations. 
• Coordinate marketing and outreach activities as needed, including website updates, brochure/report development, social media and newsletter content, and engagement with external institutions.
• Provide guidance to students on their research papers; edit/revise academic papers to translate findings into practical DMHA recommendations.
• Coordinate with various staff to ensure students are fully integrated and resourced; answer academic inquiries; curate a list of strategic research topics to provide project options for incoming students. 

Stakeholder Engagement, Program Operations & Events

• Liaise with other branches and engage staff with relevant expertise, relationships, or country/subject knowledge.
• Organize and facilitate events, training sessions, and exercises tied to product development and dissemination.
• Prepare and deliver presentations/briefings at academic engagements, workshops, and exercises.
• Attend regular meetings, and maintain an updated task/to-do deliverables dashboard to leadership
• Directly support print production and inventory of information products, unpack boxes of products, event set up, and other duties as assigned. 

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

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.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required: 

• Master's degree required.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
• 5+ years of experience analyzing and synthesizing information, including writing and editing disaster research products.
• 2+ years of experience preparing and presenting reports, briefings, and presentations.
• 2+ years of experience prioritizing multiple concurrent tasks, manage shifting timelines, and maintaining strong time management...