Joe Powers, Mpa, Cfo, Efo Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Va, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Leading the consulting firm of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, I work collaboratively with the Human Capital Division and lead the Planning & Strategic Services Division. ESCI provides consulting services to municipalities, districts, nonprofits, government, and commercial organizations. We're changing the world, one community at a time!

Boulder, Colorado, United States

AAIS is a not-for-profit insurance advisory organization that works to identify new ways to measure, assess, and incentivize fire protection and fire mitigation activities to reduce losses—both property and casualty losses—from fires AAIS recently launched the Fire Loss and Mitigation Evaluation Score process. The Council is made up of a small group of insurance carriers, insured-techs and fire protection subject matter

I work with candidates seeking professional credentials to provide peer review and recommendation to the Commission on Professional Credentialing.

Chantilly, Va

I partner with the Center for Public Safety Excellence, CPSE University, to develop and deliver course work and teach "Quality Improvement Through Accreditation" across North America.

Through comprehensive document review and travel to perform on-site evaluations, I work closely with my peer team to verify and validate the criteria set forth by the Commission for Fire Accreditation.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

As a board member of the International Association of Fire Chiefs Fire & Life Safety Section, I advocate for industry-wide change to risk-based service modeling, data-driven decision-making, and using best practices to implement strategic risk reduction in our communities.My role within the fire service changed in 2022 so I did not seek re-election.

I represent the International Association of Fire Chiefs on the Vision 20/20 Steering Committee. In the position, I advocate for a continued transition away from traditional practices of fire prevention and toward community-based, data-driven, risk reduction across North America.

Working with leaders from Vision 20/20 to develop sustainable community risk reduction programs in high-risk areas throughout the United States. The group works with state leaders and grant funding to self-develop effective programs, reduce fire risk, and increase the presence of smoke alarms in residences.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Providing insight for continuous improvement through strategic planning, organizational workload management, risk assessment, and program development for the public safety industry.

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Integrating community partnerships and public engagement as the Chief Fire Official for the historic city of Charlottesville, VA. The city offers amazing opportunities to establish relationships in the development and business communities.

Charlottesville

Developed an evidence-based, best practice Community Risk Reduction Section that served as a national model.

Two Captains, three Battalion Chiefs, and an Assistant Chief incorporate the field command team in Henrico County. Primarily assigned to at Fire House 12 in Henrico's west-end, I also frequently fill Battalion Chief positions throughout the county.

Richmond, Virginia

As the agency's Planning Captain, I work diligently to foster an organizational environment of continuous improvement through strategic program development, evaluation, and process analysis.Working closely with Community Risk Reduction efforts, I led the development, implementation, and sustainability of the Henrico Smoke Alarm Program. Between June 1 and December 31, 2017, the program knocked on more than 2700 at-risk doors and installed more than 1100 donated alarms. As of January 1, 2019, the risk assessment we developed is 91% reliable in identifying homes without working alarms. As the Accreditation Manager, I ensure the Commission on Fire Accreditation International's model of fire service excellence is ingrained in the agency to provide the very best for our employees and community. Developing and maintaining our Community Risk Assessment provides the foundation for matching our service-delivery model to the identified risk. Our Standard of Cover is fundamentally based upon our community's risk profile and I work daily to fully understand the data we generate and obtain.

Richmond, Va

The Fire Planning Section Lieutenant serves as the primary manager of the Division's strategic plan, analyzes business processes to apply technologies, and acts as the liaison between field responders and technology staff.During the early months of 2017, I led a group of multi-agency representatives to develop the Henrico Smoke Alarm Initiative. This community risk reduction program heavily depends upon a data-driven community risk analysis to identify those addresses at greatest risk. To ensure efficiency and not increase the workload of field responders, we tied the entire program to our CAD to both notify of community requests (phone or web) and collect data during community interactions. Through a four phased process, I facilitated the development of the 2018-2023 Continuous Improvement Strategy for the Division of Fire. This document, will be the first fully dynamic strategic plan to-date for our organization ensuring we stay on course and make adjustments as our environment changes. In late 2015, I completed a comprehensive study on ambulance commitment, established a standard methodology for determining commitment factors in other agencies, set fire service benchmarks, and recommendations for our own agency as well as other metro-size organizations.In this position, I also created the Community Preservation Report, or CPR. This report serves as a evaluation tool to determine the impact on tax revenue and jobs related to commercial fires in Henrico County. This program and its utilization was submitted to NFPA for review within their current fire service impact studies.

Henrico County, Va

A shared responsibility with other job tasks, the ECC liaison worked closely with the primary 911 center under the umbrella of the Division of Police. As the liaison, I worked closely with supervisors and managers to create and implement policy, provide quality management, and give feedback as it related to the fire dispatch services. In preparation for a full-time position created in February 2015, I developed a ninety-day plan for the position implementation.

Henrico County, Va

As the primary project manager for multiple administrative and operational projects, I coordinated personnel assignments, developed databases, tracked time commitments, and managed project updates to executive staff members.

Henrico County, Va

Henrico County, Va

As the primary law enforcement fire investigator for the eastern half of Henrico County, I also developed the fire investigation database, applied GIS resources for tracking incidents, created a reporting standard, and developed community outreach programs, such as the Fire Prevention Associate Program. A National Association of Counties (NACo) Award was provided to the Division of Fire reflecting the excellence and community impact of the Fire Prevention Associate Program.

Richmond, Virginia Area

As a family-run business at it's core, this successful portrait and wedding photography studio provided local clients with quality products and services for many years. As a reflection of my fire service career commitment, Richmond Photographics scaled back operations over the past twelve months but remains a part of the community.

Masters Of Public Administration With Honors, Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Alpha - National Honor Society for Public Affairs & Administration

Executive Fire Officer Program, Y1: 3.8, Y2: 3.7, Y3: 3.9 Y4: 3.9

Bachelor Of Science, Health Program Planning

The Health Sciences - Health Assessment & Promotion curriculum focused on program planning, program implementation, and project management.