Also called: SAR Coordinator, Sheriff's SAR Coordinator
Organizes searches for lost hikers, missing children, and stranded people.
SAR coordinators, often with a sheriff's office, map search areas, call out volunteer teams with dogs, drones, and horses, and run searches that can last days. Most searchers are trained volunteers.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 3 years after high school. Law enforcement or SAR experience; incident command training.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Certification. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Emergency Management, Outdoor Education, Criminal Justice.
Growing slowly. Approximate.
Low risk for 10 years. Drones, phone pings and probability maps guide searches; running teams and families on scene stays human.
Classes: Geography / map reading, Earth science, Leadership class, Health / first aid.
Official data: O*NET occupation 33-9099.
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