Assistant Medical Director

POSITION: Assistant Medical Director

OFFICE: Fire and EMS Department (FEMS)

OPEN: July 22, 2026

CLOSED: September 6, 2026

GRADE: Public Safety Excepted Service, Grade 2 (PS-2)

SALARY: $265,295.63

This is an Excepted Service position. Selected candidate must be a District resident or establish residency within 180 days of hire.

Current District of Columbia residents will receive priority and advanced preference for screening and interviews.

Background

This position is located in the DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department (FEMS). FEMS is an all-hazards agency providing state-of-the-art emergency medical patient care, treatment and transportation to people in the District of Columbia. This position serves as Assistant Medical Director. This position is established to assist the Medical Director in providing medical direction and oversight for the delivery of medical care, emergency medical training, and medical quality assurance programs of the Department. To learn more about FEMS, visit fems.dc.gov

The incumbent works under the supervision of the Medical Director, who provides administrative direction with assignments in terms of broadly defined mission and functions. The incumbent determines the approaches and methods necessary to independently carry out the mission of the agency to meet program, service or function goals and requirements. Incumbent has authority for directing and evaluating the work of subordinates assigned to functions under his/her area of responsibility, especially related to EMS Quality Improvement, training, and education. Results of the work are considered as technically authoritative and are normally accepted without significant change. If the work should be reviewed, the review concerns such matters as effectiveness and efficiency in meeting objectives to provide the highest level of emergency medical services to District of Columbia residents and visitors who are acutely ill or injured.

Guidelines include the DC Government and Department memorandums, special orders, general orders, and the District Personnel Manual; department budget, accounting, and contracting regulations and procedures, principles and theories of sound organizational management; and the ability to apply this knowledge to the resolution of management problems. The incumbent exercise a high degree of judgment, decisiveness, and resourcefulness in interpreting and applying District regulations, and laws, as well as general principles of public safety management.

Major duties

• Participates with the Medical Director and Assistant Chief of EMS in the development of guidelines, policies, procedures, rules and regulations designed to monitor and optimize the overall quality of pre-hospital emergency medical care.
• Provides EMS training and education programs at the Department's Training Academy and other sites.
• Manages and supervises subordinate managers, supervisors and support staff.
• Approves, recommends, modifies or rejects formal requests prepared by subordinate supervisors, i.e. promotions, reassignments, details, awards, performance evaluations, etc.
• Researches and develops activities related to emergency medical protocols for the department, and ongoing maintenance and education related to those protocols.
• Collaborates with the Medical Director, Assistant Chief of EMS, and other FEMS officials on all specifications, repairs, and maintenance activities relative to ambulance vehicles, medical equipment and supplies, and other support equipment.
• Participates in the design and adoption of new methodology and technology related to emergency care.
• Participates in the preparation of specifications for the purchase of new medical equipment, supplies, and medications.
• Assists with design and implementation of management information systems that assist in operations, training, quality assurance and overall administration.
• Performs needs analysis, software selection, hardware selection, system maintenance, and reporting of results.
• Collaborates with the Medical Director, Fire Chief, and Assistant Chief of EMS on leadership and guidance related to response times and performance measures of the EMS system; and departmental activities in demand management and service enhancement, with programs such as StreetCalls.
• Recommends and implements criteria for evaluation of field clinical op