EMCR Only: Member User Manual (WIP!!!)

This user manual is to help guide BC public servants who are Emergency Management and Climate Readiness (EMCR) CORE members only on how to use the new CORE member dashboard. If you were only part of EMCR last year, this user manual is for you!

Welcome to the CORE Member Dashboard User Manual. Released in 2025 as part of the CORE Team ecosystem, the CORE Member Dashboard empowers members to manage their availability, update personal information, and confirm their recommitment status for upcoming years. Changes made on your member dashboards are instantly reflected for your CORE coordinators. This manual provides comprehensive video tutorials and step-by-step instructions to help you navigate and utilize these features effectively.

Chapter 01: Overview of the Member Dashboard

🖥️ Overview of the Member Dashboard

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Dashboard Banner

This area of your dashboard displays your current membership status in a CORE program. If you are active only in EMCR, the label next to your name will show ACTIVE (EMCR) . If you become inactive, it will show INACTIVE . If at any point do you want to opt out of the program, you must reach out to your CORE coordinator to deactivate your membership.

The CORE Member Dashboard currently consists of 2 working tabs:

Deployment and Availability - allows you to view and edit your availability, deployment preferences, and skills
Profile Details - allows you to edit your personal and employee information and track your membership status every year.

All the information that you update in your member dashboard will be directly reflected on your CORE coordinator’s dashboard.

Deployment and Availability Tab

The “Deployment and Availability” tab consist of three sections:

My Schedule (Availability Calendar): This calendar allows your to communicate your availability for deployments to your CORE coordinator. For instructions on using the calendar functionalities, see Navigating the Availability Calendar. To learn how to update your availability using the calendar, go to Chapter 4 Updating your Availability.

Section Preferences: As an EMCR CORE Team member, you may work in different areas and functions (“Sections”) in a Provincial Regional Emergency Operation Centre (PREOC) or a Provincial Emergency Coordination Centre (PECC) during deployments. This part of your dashboard allows you to view or make changes your preferred EMCR section(s). To learn how to do this, go to Updating my Section Preferences.

Other Skills: If you listed additional skills on the intake form when you first applied to CORE, they will appear in this section. You can navigate between the three tabs (Languages, Tools & Software, Certifications) to view your skills, or click to make changes. For further instructions on how to edit this section, see Updating my skills.

If you joined CORE before 2024, your “Other Skills” section will be empty. You can still add your skills here by clicking if needed.

Profile Details

To navigate to this page, click on the “Profile Details” tab in the dashboard banner. the Profile Details tab consist of 5 sections:

General Information: This section displays your home and work location, region, travel preference, driver’s license classification, employee ID, and paylist number. While this section is editable, some information cannot be changed.

Employee Information: This section contains information about your current supervisor, union membership, ministry and division. While this section is editable, some information cannot be changed.

Note that liaison information is not applicable for EMCR members.

Contact Information: This section contains your primary, secondary, and work number, and your government email address. This section is editable.

Emergency Contact Information: This section contains your emergency contact name, their phone number, and their relationship to you. This section is editable.

CORE Membership Status: This section displays the CORE program you are currently enrolled in, your recommitment status for the upcoming year, the date of annual recommitment (if recommitted), and the date you first joined CORE. This section is NOT editable.

For instructions on how to edit your information in this tab, see Chapter 5 Updating your Profile Information.

Chapter 02: Accessing the Dashboard and IDIR Authentication

🔑 Accessing the Dashboard and IDIR Authentication

To access your member dashboard, follow these steps:

Navigate to the CORE Team application portal.
Log in with your IDIR and click “Continue” to enter your member dashboard.

Chapter 03: Confirming your Recommitment Status

✅ Confirming your Recommitment Status

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As a CORE member, you can now confirm your recommitment status for the upcoming year directly in your member dashboard. Please follow the instructions in this chapter to ensure a smooth recommitment process.

What is recommitment?

In the CORE Team program, recommitment is the process by which members renew their CORE membership for the upcoming year. Whether you wish to return to CORE or decline recommitment, you must do so using your member dashboard. If you want to remain an active CORE member in EMCR for another year, you must also obtain your supervisor’s approval after submitting your decision. Supervisor approval is required for recommitment each year.

How does the new recommitment process work?

Starting in 2025, there will be a designated recommitment period beginning in January each year. During this period, you will receive a recommitment reminder via email, prompting you to confirm your recommitment status on your member dashboard. We also advise you to discuss the possibility of returning to CORE with your supervisor beforehand.

Once you confirm your return to CORE on your dashboard, your supervisor will be notified and must submit their approval through their supervisor portal. After your supervisor's approval is received in the CORE Team system, your status will remain active for the upcoming year. If your supervisor declines your recommitment request, your status will become inactive by the end of the recommitment period. You will receive email notifications for both updates.

I want to recommit to EMCR CORE next year. What should I do?

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	Enter Dashboard via Recommitment Email. At the start of the recommitment period, you will receive an automatic email reminder regarding recommitment. In the email, click . Log into your member dashboard with your government IDIR.
	Start your recommitment process. In your member dashboard, a yellow message banner will appear directly above your calendar, displaying further instructions and your current recommitment status. Click “Start Recommitment” to open the recommitment window.
	Complete the recommitment modal. Fill in the form to confirm your recommitment status for next year. In the dropdown field in step 1, select “Yes”. click “Next”.
	Update/verify your supervisor information. If your supervisor has changed in the past year, you can update your supervisor information in the fields in step 2. If your supervisor has remained the same since the previous year, you can skip this step by clicking “Next”.
	Check off the statements. Carefully read through the two statements. Check off both statements. Click “Submit Decision”.
	Wait for your supervisor’s approval. Your recommitment status will temporarily appear as PENDING SUPERVISOR APPROVAL. If your supervisor has approved your recommitment, your recommitment status in the banner will change to APPROVED and you will be notified of this change via email. Both you and your CORE coordinator will see your recommitment status as RECOMMITTED on your respective CORE dashboards. This will be reflected on your CORE membership status section under the “Profile Details” tab. If your supervisor has declined your recommitment, your recommitment status in the banner will change to DECLINED BY SUPERVISOR. Both you and your CORE coordinator will see your recommitment status as DECLINED on your respective CORE dashboards. This will be reflected on your CORE membership status section under the “Profile Details” tab.

I do not want to recommit to EMCR CORE next year. What should I do?

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To decline your recommitment for the upcoming year, follow steps 1-2 in the previous section, then continue with the following instructions:

	Complete the recommitment modal. Fill in the form to confirm your recommitment status for next year. In the dropdown field in step 1, select “No, I am not returning this year. click “Next”.
	Select a reason for declining recommitment. If you select “Other reasons”, you must provide further explanation in the comment box below. click “Submit Decision”.
	Your recommitment status in the banner will change to DECLINED. This will also be reflected in your CORE coordinator’s dashboard, as well as in your CORE membership status section in your “Profile Details” tab in your member’s dashboard.

I missed the recommitment deadline but I still want to recommit. What should I do?

If you forget to submit your recommitment decision in your dashboard before the deadline, your member status will automatically change to INACTIVE, and you will be notified. If you still wish to participate in the program for the year, please reach out to your EMCR CORE coordinator as soon as possible to have your recommitment process reactivated.

Once reactivated, you will receive a new email reminder with a link to your dashboard and a new deadline. Please follow the same steps in How to confirm recommitment to CORE to complete the process before the new deadline.

Chapter 04: Updating your Availability

🗓️ Updating your Availability

Navigating the Availability Calendar

All dates are “blank” by default - blank dates are presumed by coordinators to mean that you are available for deployments for those dates. You are able to block dates off as “unavailable” - to coordinators, this means that you are not available for deployments for those blocked dates.