Appendix C - NEMIS-MT Positions and Roles

Overview

 Overview
NEMIS-MT provides access control mechanisms that protect the system and the viewing and editing of information. These mechanisms control the users' level of access to the application and to the application objects, which are the menus, screens and data fields. 
At the highest access level, there are two main teams of NEMIS-MT users:  the Emergency Response Team (ERT) and the Regional Operations and Managements Team (ROM).
Currently, there are three generally accepted Positions under the ERT (Deputy FCO for Mitigation, Deputy Hazard Mitigation Officer, and Hazard Mitigation Officer) and thirteen under the ROM including two non-FEMA positions.
Each Position has several associated roles. The role names used in both teams are the same. Thus, there is an MT Hazard Mitigation Officer (HMO) role in the ERT team and an MT Hazard Mitigation Officer (HMO) role in the ROM team. This is important to note because some system processes such as allocation, can be executed only by users who have the assigned role in both the ERT and ROM teams.
Each role is also referred to as a Group ID. Each role has pre-defined privileges to view and/or edit the application objects.
When a user is given access to the system, a User Name is established and assigned to the ERT or to the ROM, or to both. The user Depending on the user's position, the user receives the roles for that position.
The access process and structure described above is disaster-specific. Thus, the same user may be in the ERT team for Disaster A, and, at the same time be in both the ERT and ROM teams for Disaster B.