Regional Director

Job Title

The Integrated Operations Division (IOD) coordinates, collaborates, and executes CISA's operational activities to ensure seamless support and expedited response to critical needs. IOD enhances mission effectiveness and situational awareness by unifying the conduct and reporting of CISA operations through a single channel to provide CISA leadership with a common operational picture and ensure cross-divisional coordination in the implementation of CISA programs. Regional Directors oversee a staff of co-located and geographically separated personnel who deliver services that address all hazards, to include physical and cyber threats, and that fall within voluntary and regulatory mission sets. These mission sets focus on improving the nation's capability and capacity to detect, prevent, respond, and mitigate disruptions to physical, cyber and communications infrastructure.

Typical work assignments include, but are not limited to:

• Provide expert planning, analyses, and advice on the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and directives on cyber and critical infrastructure protection;
• Assist Federal, State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal (FSLTT) officials in planning and executing activities, to include sector analyses, security and resilience initiatives, and the review and interpretation and application of new directives and program changes;
• Advise stakeholders, to include executive level FSLTT officials, on security and critical infrastructure resilience across a range of threats and considerations, to include system security and communications resilience;
• Facilitate stakeholder development of, and participation in, exercises and other preparedness activities involving both cyber and physical threats;
• Support to National Security Special Events (NSSEs) and DHS Homeland Security Special Events Activity Rating (SEAR) events; and
• Monitor information and status on cyber and physical threats and incidents, ensuring information is shared with FSLTT and the private sector.