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Leadership Symposium Series

ELEC-605: Mastering Recruitment & Retention with Technology

Thursday, August 15, 2024
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM  
Location: D171

    Speaker(s)

  • Tracy Mosley

    Volunteer Recruitment & Retention Grant Manager, North Carolina Association of Fire Chiefs
    North Carolina Association of Fire Chiefs
    Wilson, North Carolina, United States

    Slides

  • Megan Thiele, MS

    Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Grant Manager
    Indiana Fire Chiefs Association
    Camby, Indiana, United States

  • Malcolm H. Smith, Jr., EFO CEM

    Fire Administrator
    Brunswick County Emergency Services
    Leland, North Carolina, United States

  • Rick Mosley

    Recruitment and Retention Officer
    Silver Lake Volunteer Fire Department
    Wilson, North Carolina, United States

Come learn how two states are leveraging their FEMA SAFER grant to design and build a GIS tool that will support them now and into the future by utilizing current data to map out new strategies for future efforts. Both North Carolina Association of Fire Chiefs (NCAFC) and Indiana Fire Chiefs Association (IFCA) are working with the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) to leverage technology in their state's efforts to combat the challenges of recruiting and retain a more diverse volunteer workforce.

See a demo of the GIS Toolkit and hear from fellow firefighters how they are using this tool in their community to support them in their efforts to increase the number of volunteer firefighters in their community.

Learning Objectives:

  • Gain better awareness of why volunteer firefighters joined within a region and across a state to leverage for recruitment and retention efforts.
  • Identify potentially new recruitment locations with the GIS toolkit to identify areas with low volunteer firefighters to strategically target recruitment efforts in those areas.
  • Leverage community demographic data to identify new workforce and tailor outreach campaigns to attract a diverse volunteer workforce that reflects the local population.
  • Explore data through technology to identify successful recruitment strategies by location, region and timeframe to optimize your recruitment efforts.