Scott Baldwin Email & Phone Number

Golden, Co, Us

Greater Denver Area

Directly supervise Mitigation Team ensuring strategic goals and objectives of leadership are consistently met and exceeded.Provide constant and consistent feedback to those under my supervision to ensure proper mitigation program facilitation, improvement and accountability.Advise leadership of concerns and considerations regarding the administration of grant programs, provide recommendations and seek input on policy level decisions.Responsible for successful implementation of both pre-disaster and post-disaster mitigation grant programs at State level to include project types ranging from wildfire and flood control infrastructure to private property acquisitions and elevations.

Work Leader responsible for monitoring and ensuring equitable workload of two full time employees, confirmed individual and collective efforts resulted in appropriate quality and quantity of work. Contributed to periodic and annual evaluations of individual team members' performance.Provided insight to leadership on how best to implement post-disaster mitigation grant programs which would best meet the needs of communities impacted by federally declared wildfire and flood events.Assisted local governments with development of grant applications for FEMA mitigation grant funding, provided ongoing and proactive technical assistance to make certain funding resulted in successfully completed projects and initiatives.Conducted applicant briefings, training sessions and workshops on FEMA Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation grant program requirements and best practices.

Assisted local communities with the development of applications and administration of Pre-Disaster Mitigation, Flood Mitigation Assistance, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and Emergency Management Performance Grant programs; providing technical assistance for the development of eligible project scopes of work, project management best practices, grant quarterly reporting and project reimbursement requests.Developed grant administration methods to administer Public Assistance recovery funds as well as coordinated efforts for the creation of mitigation priorities and considerations for the disbursement of Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funding sources to meet the mitigation needs of both the State and local communities.Providing training to Emergency Managers and local community leaders to include Public Assistance applicant briefings, Hazard Mitigation Planning, Preliminary Damage Assessment, and Benefit Cost Analysis.Situation Unit Leader within the State Emergency Operation Center during disaster and planned events; vetted information to provide timely and accurate dissemination of information and coordinated Preliminary Damage Assessments throughout the State to assess damage severity and disaster magnitude to determine eligibility for State and Federal disaster declarations.Co-Chair of the Colorado Cultural and Historic Resource task force which established procedures to protect Colorado's heritage in the event of a disaster.

Train, exercise and refine policies and procedures within Emergency Operations Center Plans Section, ensuring implementation of Emergency Management best practices during incident support.Wrote risk assessments of local communities throughout Colorado, analyzing geological location and determining vulnerability of local infrastructure and critical facilities.Developed grant management processes enhancing mitigation sections' ability to track grants from inception to completion and collected and reviewed quarterly reports.Completed FEMA Hazard Mitigation Planning training as well as Incident Command System courses 100, 200, 300, 400, 700 and 800.

Bachelor’S Degree, American Studies

Certified Public Manager