Information Officer

Course Description

This course provides emergency responders with an overview of key duties and responsibilities of an Information Officer Type III in a Type III AHIMT.

Prerequisites:  ICS 300

Delivery and Length

This classroom-based Instructor facilitated course requires a minimum of 28 student contact hours, not including scheduled breaks. The recommended to deliver this course over 5 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 Information Officer on an AHIMT.
• Identify course objective and position-specific resource materials for the position of Information Officer.
• Describe the role and importance of the Information Officer position in incident operations, especially as it pertains to initial incident operations.
• Describe the fundamentals of information operations during incident management.
• Develop a Communications Strategy for disseminating incident information.
• Describe the importance of effective media relations and the role of the Information Officer in developing and maintaining such relationships.
• Describe the roles and responsibilities of Assistant Information Officers.
• Describe how the Information Officer may establish and leverage effective community relations.
• Describe the role of the Information Officer as it pertains to handling special situations within incidents.
• Describe how the Information Officer can keep her or himself and those they escort and work with alive and well in the incident environment.
• Define the Information Officer’s roles and responsibilities during incident transition and demobilization.