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Incident Workforce Development Group
June 2018
Purpose
This charter establishes and provides direction to the Incident Workforce Development Group.
Mission
The Incident Workforce Development Group provides national leadership to enable long-term
development and sustainability of a national interagency incident workforce. Primary objectives
are:
Develop incident workforce data into useful decision support information.
Use incident workforce data to identify impediments to Incident Management Team (IMT)
participation.
Assess and make specific recommendations for the following issues:
o Roles and responsibilities for IMT direction, prioritization, and oversight.
o Increasing internal and external (e.g. DOD, USGS, BOR, NRCS) IMT participation.
o Improving NWCG qualification pathways.
o Ensuring equitable experience opportunities among IMTs.
o Number, type, and geographic location of IMTs.
o IMT mobilization efficiencies.
o Trainee management and efficiency in support of IMT staffing goals.
Provide regular reports to the chartering entities to include:
o Issue identification and recommendations related to the primary mission.
o Areas of disagreement that require higher level resolution.
Governance
The Incident Workforce Development Group is established pursuant to the authorities granted
to the federal Fire Management Board (charter), the National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group
(delegation of authority), and the intergovernmental National Wildfire Coordinating Group
(charter). It is accountable to and receives direction from these three entities.
The Incident Workforce Development Group may establish, organize, and direct standing and
ad hoc subgroups to support its mission.
Members work in a collective, collaborative, and consensus-seeking manner to accomplish the
Incident Workforce Development Group mission. All decisions will be recorded.
Membership
The Incident Workforce Development Group is composed of six appointed representatives of
the following entities and reflects the breadth of intergovernmental and geographical
stakeholders.