BARBARA CRUMB
Anola,Canada
Summary
Highly motivated results-driven professional with strong management skills and the ability to resolve complex problems with innovative and creative approaches. Demonstrated success at combining large complex operations with effective communication strategies. Brings a holistic lens to operations and strategic communications to ensure growth and societal buy-in over the long term. Superior political acumen with numerous years of experience providing strategic advice to senior leaders on complex and sensitive issues. Strong leadership, relationship building, conflict resolution skills. Ensures effective collaboration across all partners and stakeholders to achieve mutually desirable outcomes. Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to establish and maintain professional relationships. Exceptional analytical, problem solving and writing skills through professional experience and education at the graduate level.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Director
Manitoba Emergency Management Organization
Winnipeg, MB
07.2023 - Current
- Provides direction and leadership to the Preparedness & Response branch within the Emergency Management Organization to ensure effective operations and alignment with executive strategy.
- Built a respectful workplace culture that promotes diversity, learning and continuous improvement.
- Lead the development of strategic objectives, financial and business plans, and operating principles for the branch, aligning with executive direction and public expectations.
- Demonstrated success at combining large complex operations with effective communication strategies as the lead of Manitoba's Ukrainian Refugee Testing Force responsible for integrating displaced Ukrainians into the province, and overseeing responses to numerous natural disasters.
- Provides comprehensive policy recommendations, briefings, and advice to the Premier, Ministers, and Cabinet.
- Ensures effective collaboration across all partners and stakeholders to achieve mutually desirable outcomes. Brings a holistic lens to operations and strategic communications to ensure growth and societal buy-in over the long term.
- Built strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, representing the organization in federal, provincial, & multi-sectoral initiatives.
- As lead of the COVID 19 Testing Task Force, directed the management of human resources and managed a multi-million-dollar budget to maximize operational efficiency, control expenditures, and plan for future needs to ensure the appropriate allocation of financial resources of the Manitoba Government.
- Ensures operations adhere to legislative requirements, established best practices, regulations, and policies.
Strategic Initiatives Lead
Parks & Protected Resources Division
07.2019 - Current
- Developed compelling strategic goals and objectives that illustrated the value and cost-effectiveness of the Manitoba Wildfire Service.
- Provided quick turn analytic support to senior Manitoba Government leadership on modernization, communications, change management and stakeholder engagement.
- Identified and encouraged program areas to not only adhere to best practice but set the bar for other comparable programs.
- Supported the Deputy Minister of Conservation and Climate by providing strategic options, comprehensive policy advice and recommendations.
- Developed a framework for examining the Wildfire Service’s overall strategic success and financial impact.
- Develop relationships with internal, cross departmental and external stakeholders and lead projects that support the Wildfire Service.
- Provide leadership and guidance in the area of strategic analysis of the cross-functional priorities from a marketing and branding perspective.
- Facilitate the coordination and alignment across the Wildfire Service to support overall strategic planning towards the achievement of the Service’s goals and objectives.
- Broad knowledge of the Wildfire Service’s business segment portfolio of products and technology platforms; relevant marketplace and trends in the market that impact the future of the Service.
- Prepared and managed strategic planning meetings (on- and off-site), which included guiding participants to deliberate and decision-making processes on important Wildfire Service related matters.
Advisor
Office of the Clerk of the Executive Council
07.2018 - 07.2019
- Responsible for leading internal communications on high-profile projects that contribute to a culture of engagement across all areas of the public service.
- Leveraged multi-channel and multi-directional communications to break down silos encouraged collaboration and created space for diverse voices to be heard while increasing engagement and innovation by leading the project team responsible for the creation of MBGPS, the intranet for the Government of Manitoba Public Service.
- Collaborated with key partners in Communication Services Manitoba, the Public Service Commission, and other central agencies and departments to define the future of internal communications in Manitoba.
- Lead the execution of a corporate communications plan to support the role out of Balanced Scorecards.
- Collaborated across the public service to develop and execute internal communications strategies for large priorities such as the Employee Engagement Survey Results.
- Liaised with employee networks to ensure appropriate alignment to support a culture of inclusion and respect grounded in public service values and ethics.
Director
Office of Disaster Management
10.2012 - 07.2018
- Accountable for the development, implementation and management of a comprehensive disaster management program for the health sector including Manitoba Health, 5 Regional Health Authorities. .
- Responsible for developing and maintaining linkages and partnerships with a network of contacts in the public health, emergency response and social service sectors, federal departments, international governments as well as domestic and international non-governmental agencies with interests in emergency preparedness and response.
- Responsible for identifying complex issues and providing recommendations for resolution and mitigation to multidimensional and sensitive issues.
- Provided leadership, advice and recommendations to senior executive (up to Minister Level) and partners during numerous events including the influx of refugee claimants arriving in the Province of Manitoba, the Opioid Crisis and Response, Climate Change Management, the Sandoz drug crisis and multiple other hazards that have impacted the Province including Wildland Fire Evacuations, the Otterburne Pipeline Explosion and numerous Flooding events.
- Extensive experience in the management of human resource issues related to branch activities including change management, leadership development, recruitment and retention, succession planning, performance management and learning and development.
- This also includes managing up to 20 employees, assigning work, establishing vision, directions, priorities, managing performance and determining needs.
- Responsible for the financial resources allocated for the branch and health emergency management activities including financial reporting, resource management and forecasting, auditing, implementing budget controls, tracking expenditures and treasury board submissions.
- Responsible for the on-going negotiation and implementation of multiple Memorandums of Agreement with various Federal Government Agencies.
- Responsible for providing leadership and direction to the Departments on-call 24/7 Duty Officers who ensure rapid communication and provide support to the Health Sector during emergencies.
- Responsible for development and implementation of a number of strategic initiatives including the Hazard Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Project, the Provincial Psychosocial Framework, the Heat Alert Response System Program and the Smoke and Air Quality Initiative.
- Responsible for providing leadership and direction to the implementation for the Health Sectors Mass Notification System, a sustainable pandemic warehouse, an interim medical treatment facility and a Common Operating Picture (GIS-based tool).
Disaster Projects Coordinator
Office of Disaster Management
08.2007 - 10.2012
- Responsible for the training and development of Provincial and Regional Health Authorities personnel in Incident Command Systems.
- Responsible for providing advice and assistance to local government agencies on matters relating to the development, execution, and maintenance of adequate environmental protection plans and programs.
- Project Lead for developing and designing knowledge and information dissemination tools, products and mechanisms related to emergency preparedness and response.
- Responsible for reviewing, analyzing, and coordinating preparation of, or preparing comments on environmental impact statements.
- Responsible for gathering information on emergency preparedness and response health from governmental and non-governmental documents and publications, analyzes and consolidates all pertinent information, identifies and assesses emerging trends and issues and uses the information to create oral and written reports for senior management to inform them of current issues and to assist them in their decision-making process.
- Project Manager for the Mass Fatality strategic initiative for Manitoba Health, this included ensuring preparedness activities were coordinated within a common framework.
- Fulfilled the role of On-Call Duty Officer for Manitoba Health.
Federal/Provincial/Territorial Liaison Officer
Centre for Emergency Preparedness & Response
07.2006 - 08.2007
- Required to synthesize, evaluate and adapt information derived from consultations and collaboration with federal/provincial/territorial governments, universities, national and international organizations and health/education sectors on a variety of projects including initiatives on Climate Change and Emergency Management; also identified/analyzed current issues, emerging trends and developments in emergency preparedness and planning, international development, and emergency preparedness training, including impact of policy/program changes within their various systems and provided strategic advice to senior management
- Completed environmental scans of existing research on emergency management, to provide a critical assessment of current knowledge and identify future needs to develop better understanding and knowledge of policy issues relating to emergency preparedness, planning and response, and analyze, synthesize and disseminate results for utilization in policy and program development
- Developed linkages and partnerships and maintained a network of contacts with stakeholders in the public health, emergency response and social service sectors.
- Coordinated input from stakeholders to achieve consensus in addressing strategic issues, developing best practice models and developing templates on best practices and prototypes for implementation within their regions and in their communities while providing critical information to senior officials.
- Tested and implemented the Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence (CNPHI) framework, policy, prototypes, and models for utilization by federal, provincial and territorial partners.
- Coordinated the development of Pan-Canadian Emergencies Management protocols and their implementation.
Disaster Logistics Coordinator
Office of Disaster Management, Mb Health
07.2005 - 07.2006
- Ensured departmental operational readiness by developing and implementing procedures for Manitoba Health’s Emergency Coordination Center (MHECC) and Satellite Emergency Operation Center (SEOC) and was responsible for training staff on working at both locations.
- Responsible for evaluating new equipment and technologies for use in the MHECC and SEOC and ensure that the MHECC and SEOC are able to communicate and coordinate with regional, provincial and federal Emergency Coordination Centres while maintaining activity logs.
- Member of Manitoba Health’s antiviral/vaccine working group and responsible for the transport, logistics and security of provincial pandemic drugs and supplies.
- Project Lead for the National Emergency Stockpile System (NESS) in Manitoba.
- Responsible for the development a refresh strategy of provincial National Emergency Stockpile System (NESS) policies, protocols, standards and guidelines and coordinating stockpile activities and a working group to address this issue.
- Provided leadership and expertise in delivering critical consultation, research, policy analysis, program development and communications to the health sector to address NESS management issues and maintained an inventory of emergency supplies across the province of Manitoba.
Education
Master’s Degree -
University of Manitoba
Bachelor of Arts - International Development Studies
Menno Simons College
Bachelor of Arts - Geography
University of Winnipeg
Skills
- Project Management
- Operations Management
- Business Development
- Staff Development
- Business Administration
- Business Planning
- Logistics Management
- Staff Management
- Issues Resolution
- Crisis Management
- Organizational Development
- Strategic Planning
- Financial Management
Additional Professional Development Courses
- Government of Manitoba - Media Training
- Government of Manitoba - Train the Trainer
- Justice Institute of British Colombia - Incident Command Systems 100
- Justice Institute of British Colombia - Incident Command Systems 200
- Justice Institute of British Colombia - Exercise Design
- Justice Institute of British Colombia - Emergency Program Coordinator Training
- National Mass Fatalities Institute - Mass Fatalities Incident Response Planning course
- Office of Emergency Services Centre for Emergency Preparedness - NESS Orientation and Unit Box Identification course
- Canadian Emergency Preparedness College - Emergency Operation Centre Management
- Manitoba Emergency Management Organization - Manitoba Emergency Management course
- CSA Learning Institute - CSA Z1600
Awards
Recipient of the 2018 Manitoba Service Excellence Award in the Service Excellence Team Category as a member of the Interdepartmental Asylum Seekers Planning Team Recipient of the 2006 Dr. Andres Petrasovits Award for Excellence in Public Health
Accomplishments
·Recipient of the U.S. Ambassador to Canada's nomination to participate the US's International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) - Disaster and Emergency Management. The IVLP is the U.S. Department of State's premier professional exchange program and participated in a 3 week long knowledge exchange with international delegates from all corner of the globe.
Recipient of the 2018 Manitoba Service Excellence Award in the Service Excellence Team Category as a member of the Interdepartmental Asylum Seekers Planning Team
· Recipient of the 2006 Dr. Andres Petrasovits Award for Excellence in Public Health
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Director
Manitoba Emergency Management Organization
07.2023 - Current
Strategic Initiatives Lead
Parks & Protected Resources Division
07.2019 - Current
Advisor
Office of the Clerk of the Executive Council
07.2018 - 07.2019
Director
Office of Disaster Management
10.2012 - 07.2018
Disaster Projects Coordinator
Office of Disaster Management
08.2007 - 10.2012
Federal/Provincial/Territorial Liaison Officer
Centre for Emergency Preparedness & Response
07.2006 - 08.2007
Disaster Logistics Coordinator
Office of Disaster Management, Mb Health
07.2005 - 07.2006
Master’s Degree -
University of Manitoba
Bachelor of Arts - International Development Studies
Menno Simons College
Bachelor of Arts - Geography
University of Winnipeg
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