Director, External Operations Office, PEMA pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 76189
- Class code
- 76189
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director, External Operations Office, PEMA is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 76189.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The Commonwealth job specification for this class is published by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration. The passages below are quoted from it as published, not paraphrased, and cut to their opening sentences; the full specification is the authority on duties and qualifications. It was last revised 05/13/2016.
What the state says the job is
This is responsible administrative work in directing all aspects of external response operations in the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA). The employee in this job is responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the activities of the External Operations Office. Work involves developing, implementing, and interpreting policies and procedures for the development, staffing, mobilization, deployment, training, and setting of training and certification standards for specialized response teams; directing and managing PEMA’s participation in state and federal mutual aid systems; and determining supply and equipment quantities needed to support disaster response and recovery operations.
Examples of the work
• Develops, implements, and interprets policies, procedures, and rules related to the deployment and utilization of emergency management resources during disaster response and recovery operations. • Manages the administrative and operational aspects of Specialized Statewide Response Teams (SSRT) to include responsibility for developing policies and procedures associated with team development, staffing, mobilization, deployment, training, and setting of qualification standards. • Develops, implements, amends, and interprets policies, procedures, and regulations related to reimbursement of state funds to teams responding to an incident.
Minimum qualifications
• Six years of professional emergency management experience in disaster operations, public safety, or related emergency services programs that includes four years of emergency response experience which involved the direct delivery of services or management of operations for a municipal, county, regional, state, or federal agency involved in emergency or disaster response, and one year of supervisory experience, and a bachelor’s degree in public administration, public safety, or a closely related field; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes four years of emergency response experience which involved in the direct delivery of services or management of operation ...
Quoted from the Commonwealth job specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration publishes this figure in Classification and Pay Plan (online, current annual salary ranges). Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
The Commonwealth also links this class code to its own job title and specification. That page is the official description of the classification; this page publishes its pay range.
The listed pay scale is available in the Commonwealth's current ST schedule.