Emergency Managment Specialist

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Position Summary:

Under the supervision of the Emergency Management & PBX Manager, this role coordinates and monitors an effective "all-hazards" emergency management program for City of Hope by supporting enterprise preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts and ensures regulatory and accreditation requirements are met as directed by The Joint Commission (TJC), California Department of Health (CDPH), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services(CMS), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Occupational Safety and Health Administration(OSHA), and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

The Emergency Management Specialists assists and supports disaster response or crisis management activities, planning and facilitation of disaster response and crisis management drills, after action reviews, vulnerability analysis, educational and training program, and ongoing development of the City of Hope enterprise emergency operations response plans for emergencies not limited to, natural and human-caused disasters, armed conflicts, disease outbreaks, terrorist incidents, utility outages and environmental hazards.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Plan, coordinate, and conduct drills, trainings, exercises and after-action reviews as directed. Identifies potential gaps and areas for improvement and recommends mitigation efforts to ensure resiliency.
• Support the development and updates to enterprise emergency operations plan.
• Respond to disaster, incidents, or emergencies as needed and initiate HCC when requested, send out mass notification, manage virtual and physical command centers.
• Responsible to track the completion of deliverables identified in post-event/post-exercise debriefs.
• Complete annual audits, inventory assessment of emergency management equipment and supplies to meet compliance and HPP funding requirements.
• Conducts research on best practices and performs the analysis to provide meaningful recommendations that are practical and ready for implementation
• Develop, maintain, and analyze EM metric dashboard(s), spreadsheets and data bases to ensure correct information is translated for management reports.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and or years of equivalent experience with VP approval.
• Certified in Hospital Incident Command System HICS
• Certified in FEMA 100, 200, 300, 700, and 800
• Successful completion of Hospital Disaster Management Training
• Successful completion of Hazwopper Training or comparable
• (The required certs/trainings to be obtained within 30-days employment)
• Three (3) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience in a healthcare environment

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

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