Finance Admin Section Chief Course

Course Description

This course provides emergency responders with an overview of key duties and responsibilities of an Finance & Administration Section Chief - Type III in a Type III AHIMT.

Delivery and Length

This classroom-based Instructor facilitated course requires a minimum of 18 student contact hours, not including scheduled breaks. It is recommended that this course be delivered over 3 days.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

•  Demonstrate, through exercises and a final exam, an understanding of the duties,
  responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective Finance/Administration Section Chief
  on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team
• Identify course objectives and position-specific resource materials
• Describe how to gather, organize, and communicate information necessary to
  perform as a Finance/Administration Section Chief
• Describe the roles and responsibilities of a Finance/Administration Section Chief as
  they apply to planning, supervision, and coordination
•  Identify key strategies for interacting with members of the Incident Management
  Team and personnel outside of the IMT
• Describe the information gathered from the initial meetings, briefings, and
  documents

Prerequisites:

ICS 300

Target Audience:

Agencies and organizations are responsible to determine who within their organizations requires ICS Position Specific training, based on local incident management organizational planning.

The audience may include students from a variety of agencies and functional disciplines, including fire service, law enforcement, emergency management, public works departments, as well as public health organizations, medical emergency teams and hospitals.