Discussion post: Emergency managers need many skills to get their jobs done. As is any profession, some skills are more critical than others. These critical skills are considered primary skills and there are several primary skills needed in emergency management. Some important skills involve working with the community. Each community has different stakeholders. Stakeholders can be private, such as local companies and governmental, such as emergency response agencies like fire or police. There can be federal stakeholders, too, such as FEMA or politicians. In each disaster there will be potential conflicts between these different stakeholders. The emergency manager must work with these different stakeholders and have a plan to deal with the potential conflicts in advance.

For your main post:

• Articulate the primary skills an emergency manager needs to coordinate and integrate the inter-agency, inter-jurisdictional, and public and private services required in an emergency management organization.
• Identify who the emergency manager is for your city or county.
• Discuss his or her job description and background.
• Determine where the emergency manager came from and what he or she does on the job every day.
• https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/nims
• https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/national-preparedness/frameworks/response
• https://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nrf-esf-intro.pdf
• please include scholarly resources and properly cite sources using ap