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Director of Emergency Management and Business Continuity

Description:

The Director of Emergency Management and Business Continuity satisfies a Joint Commission required position that will oversee the Emergency Management (EM) Department and the Business Continuity (BC) Program for the Hospital System.

This role serves as a subject matter expert to the Tarrant County Hospital District (TCHD) staff during mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery phases of an event.

Knowledgeable in all administrative aspects of running a Hospital Emergency Management Program for the TCHD and has overall responsibility for coordination, strategic planning, regulatory compliance and budget development for Emergency Management and Business Continuity.

Works collaboratively and communicates effectively with Executive Leadership, Medical and Hospital Directors and staff to provide the overall coordination of EM and BC strategic planning and maintain regulatory compliance.

Expected to oversee the annual completion of a district-wide hazardous vulnerability analysis and the development, implementation and administrative maintenance of the hospital’s Emergency Operations Plan.

Directs the Business Continuity Planning efforts throughout the network to minimize downtime of critical resources by conducting a Business Impact Analysis of internal and external hazards and working with targeted clinical/ business unit stakeholders to facilitate the creation and management of mitigation plans based on those hazards.

Monitors all business continuity software systems functionality, account creations, training and technical support.

Typical Duties:

• Administers the TCHD Emergency Management Programs in accordance with standards set forth by The Joint Commission (TJC), Life Safety Code, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and facilitates the functions of the Emergency Management Programs.
• Oversees Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) federal grant funds.
• Works with community partners to identify and analyze community hazards that may interrupt operations.
• Prepares department operating budget on an annual basis and monitors areas of responsibility for compliance within current budget.
• Represents the Health Network in local, state, regional and national programs and meetings related to hazard vulnerability analysis, preparedness funding, program development, and mitigation, response, and recovery actions, including development of exercises with community partners.
• Coordinates the Emergency Management Committee and collaborates with other team members to develop and implement a District-wide Emergency Operations Plan.
• Oversight of disaster exercises and drills as required by TJC, Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and OSHA.
• Anticipates hospital system needs, defines and coordinates utilization of Hospital Command Center (HCC).
• Ensures subordinate staff maintain responsibilities specific to job and other operational issues that impact preparedness and safety.
• Communicates departmental needs to the Nursing Executive and maintains a positive working relationship with internal and external partners.
• Identifies, designs, and manages the educational needs of district employees related to the Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs as needed.
• Identifies and analyzes the design of jobs, work processes and suggest or implements appropriate changes to improve work effectiveness, productivity and efficiency that support the overall goals of the Hospital and the department.
• Prepares and administers departmental performance evaluations.
• Serves as the Point of Contact for the North Central Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Emergency Management, or related field from an accredited University is required.
• 5 plus years of Management level (or higher) experience in a hospital Emergency Management/ Business Continuity role is required.

Required Licensure/Certification/Specialized Training:

• Formalized Certification in Emergency Management (AEM, CEM, CHEP, etc.) is required at hire.
• National Incident Management System IS 100, 200, 700, 800 training is required within 30 days of hire.
• Training in Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) must be obtained within one year.
• Valid state of Texas driver’s license is required at hire.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Formalized Business Continuity Certification (ABCP, CBCP, CBCI, MBCP, etc.) preferred
• Manager (or higher) level experience developing emergency preparedness training and computer-based learning modules is preferred.
• Trainer level experience in Hospital Emergency Response (HazMat Response), Mass Casualty Incidents and Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) is preferred.
• Experience with the North Central Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council is preferred.
• Regulatory survey experience is preferred.

Preferred Licensure/Certification/Specialized Training:

• Hospital Emergency Response Training from FEMA's CDP is preferred.
• Healthcare Leadership Training from FEMA's CDP is preferred.

Overview

The IT Architect II is responsible for design of IT systems including system infrastructure, system security, application architecture, software and data life cycle management. Provides enterprise architectural framework for the design, development, and deployment of information/business systems. Proactively drives the prioritization of key technology enablers for achieving enterprise level system objectives while ensuring scalability, reliability, and availability of implemented systems. Provides leadership and expertise to evaluate planned platform growth, increasingly demanding enterprise service level requirements in order to identify, design, and implement technology solutions that exceed expectations.

This role requires excellent collaboration and communication skills to translate complex requirements into functional architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Assists in the development of the information system vision and strategy of the organization; assists in the development, implementation, communication, and promotion of strategic and tactical plans

• Researches and participates in beta testing of new systems and technologies in order to better evaluate their suitability to the environment

• Evaluates proposed system acquisitions and provides critical input to the decision-making process relative to compatibility, cost, resource requirements, operations, and maintenance; develops plans and recommendations to improve the performance and efficiency of assigned systems; addresses all aspects of assigned systems, including hardware, software, outside services, etc.; considers cost-effectiveness, budget, and other resource issues in addition to technical issues; develops and implements standards and procedures for multiple areas of technology

• Participates in development of standards, design and implementation of proactive processes to collect and report data and statistics on assigned systems; performs research and testing to verify impact and advisability of system installations; assists in development vendor support relationships

• Maintains in-depth knowledge and current certification in various areas of information technology

• Responsible for infrastructure design, performance modeling and capacity planning.

• Independently provides guidance and leadership on architecture design initiatives.

• Demonstrates ability to lead team through complex system design and implementation initiatives.

• Ensures architectures are flexible and support the business needs by maintaining an understanding of business strategies and infrastructure capabilities.

• Works with various technical resources across the team to facilitate the development of technical standards.

• Possesses communication skills and ability to develop and present solutions to all levels of management, including executive levels.

• Participates in requirements gathering, discovery, and interfacing with technical and business teams - establishing credibility in terms of experience, presentation and leadership of solutions development.

• Evaluates proposed new systems, system changes and additions, provides oversight into the decision process.

• Quickly and decisively acts in fast changing, unpredictable situations, shows tremendous amount of initiative in tough situations, is exceptional at spotting and seizing opportunities, proactively plans projects and tasks within application.

• Applies advanced level understanding of assigned clinical/business operations, processes, and workflows. Discusses, and identifies dependencies with project team members and stakeholders. Maintains collaborative customer relationships; Ensures the needs of the customer are fully represented in all updates.

• Reviews and provides feedback on documentation written by others. Articulates issues and complex concepts in appropriate manner based on the audience.

• Possesses the skill to develop strong and positive relationships with management at all levels.

• Demonstrates an advanced level of business strategies understanding, applies expertise to help meet customer goals and outcomes. Tackles new problems using experimentation, including successes and failure experiences. Creative problem solving beyond standard recommendations and practice.

Required Education and Skills:

Education/Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in large corporate systems environments working with complex IT systems.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, software development, system administration, system architecture, application architecture or data system architecture.
• Minimum Four (4) years of hands-on experience with system or application performance modeling and tuning.

Certifications:

• TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) certification is preferred.