Gaming Designer

Culmen International is seeking a Gaming Designer.
This position involves designing and developing serious games, simulation-supported activities, and interactive exercise experiences for public health and medical preparedness, response, recovery, and continuity missions. The position transforms exercise objectives, operational plans, threat information, and subject-matter expertise into realistic game mechanics, scenarios, participant decisions, and multimedia products that enable readiness and improve performance.
Design, develop, test, facilitate, and refine serious games and simulation-supported activities for federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, regional, and interagency audiences.
Translate exercise objectives, plans, policies, capabilities, corrective actions, and operational challenges into game concepts, rules, roles, decision points, scenario modules, and measurable outcomes.
Develop realistic scenarios, storylines, injects, timelines, participant materials, facilitation questions, control-cell products, and Master Scenario Events Lists.
Apply HSEEP doctrine and sound instructional, experiential-learning, and game-design principles to seminars, workshops, tabletop exercises, games, drills, functional exercises, and full-scale exercises.
Incorporate computer simulation, model outputs, visual interfaces, video vignettes, video injects, and virtual-delivery capabilities into exercise programs when appropriate.
Collaborate with modeling and simulation specialists, systems designers, planners, facilitators, evaluators, analysts, multimedia personnel, and subject matter experts to produce integrated exercise experiences.
Support concept and objectives meetings, initial and midterm planning meetings, in-progress reviews, MSEL development and synchronization meetings, final planning meetings, exercise execution, hotwashes, and after-action meetings.
Prototype and playtest game mechanics and supporting materials; collect participant and stakeholder feedback and revise products to improve realism, usability, accessibility, and alignment with objectives.
Develop evaluation criteria and data-collection opportunities that allow exercise teams to assess decisions, actions, coordination, plans, policies, and corrective-action implementation.
Review technical and analytical products and interpret modeling or simulation results for incorporation into exercise design and real-time participant play.
Prepare and deliver briefings, demonstrations, facilitator guidance, participant instructions, technical documentation, and decision-support materials.
Maintain awareness of current industry standards, emerging technologies, virtual environments, and best practices in serious gaming, simulation, and exercise design.
Complete recurring and short-turn assignments within established deadlines and maintain accessible, organized project files and deliverables.
Travel as authorized to support planning conferences, exercise delivery, evaluation, training, real-world response activities, or stakeholder meetings.
Knowledge of HSEEP doctrine and experience supporting the full exercise planning, conduct, evaluation, and improvement-planning cycle.
Experience supporting public health preparedness, emergency management, incident response, continuity, consequence modeling, or interagency operations.
Experience creating visual interfaces, video vignettes, video injects, digital game assets, or virtual simulation environments.
Experience facilitating games or exercises for senior leaders, government personnel, emergency responders, healthcare partners, or interagency audiences.
Familiarity with the National Response Framework, National Incident Management System, Emergency Support Function #8, and federal preparedness and response doctrine.
Experience developing accessible digital and multimedia products consistent with Section 508 requirements.

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