Senior Director Emergency Management and Environmental Health and Safety

Sutter Health•Sacramento, CA

About The Position

This position oversees Emergency Management, Environmental Health and Safety for a large healthcare system. The Senior Director develops a defensible, sustainable, and scalable Integrated Resiliency Program framework and strategy. They provide programmatic oversight of strategic and operational resiliency initiatives related to business continuity, emergency management, and the environment of care, ensuring integration with Disaster recovery. The role directs and leads a team to design, deploy, execute, and review operational resiliency processes. These processes include, but are not limited to: risk assessments, business impact analyses, emergency communication systems, drills and exercises, training and education, regulatory and accreditation requirements, disaster response and recovery, and overall program maintenance. The Senior Director leads the long-term strategic, operational, and planning process, and the development of metrics to ensure that applicable enterprise strategies cascade through all operating units to facilitate integration across Sutter Health. They also ensure business continuity, emergency management, and environment of care programs are aligned to industry standards and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Emergency Management, Disaster Management, Environmental Health and Safety, or Public Safety or equivalent education/experience
CPHRM-Certified Professional Healthcare Risk Management
15 years of recent relevant experience
Mastery of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint tools
Ability to provide constructive feedback to team members to support continuous improvement
Ability to foster, drive and maintain team member engagement
Ability to effectively detect, surface and resolve conflicts among individuals and/or work groups
Ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external customers, to include integration of new ideas, new services and clients
Ability to understand and adjust to changing priorities, circumstances, direction, and a variety of personal styles
Ability to recognize and research a problem, and to identify its component parts, causes and cost impact
Ability to identify concerns before they become problems, and to propose solutions to the concerns
Ability to make own decisions by inquiring, listening and evaluating alternative solutions
Ability to research and resolve complex issues
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-supervising
Must demonstrate the highest level of integrity and professionalism to handle sensitive and confidential information
Demonstrated ability to set priorities and to respond to changing demands from multiple sources in a fast-paced environment
Good interpersonal skills including active listening, critical thinking, ability to multi-task effectively
Ability to follow through, meet deadlines, anticipate requirements and build relationships
Analytical and problem solving skills combined with verbal and written communication skills
Ability to exercise independent judgment and employ higher order reasoning skills
Ability to work in varying environments, shifts, and hours
Completion of ICS 100, 200, 700 and 800

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Healthcare industry and geographically dispersed organizations would be beneficial

Responsibilities

Oversees Emergency Management, Environmental Health and Safety for a large healthcare system
Develops a defensible, sustainable, and scalable Integrated Resiliency Program framework and strategy
Provides programmatic oversight of strategic and operational resiliency initiatives related to business continuity, emergency management, and the environment of care and assures integration with Disaster recovery
Directs and leads the team to design, deploy, execute and review operational resiliency processes
Leads the long-term strategic, operational and planning process, and the development of metrics to ensure that applicable enterprise strategies cascade through all operating units to facilitate integration across Sutter Health
Ensures business continuity, emergency management and environment of care programs are aligned to industry standards and regulatory requirements