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Emergency Management Specialist

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Including but not limited to :

• Reviews and analyzes hospital and off-site location plans, makes revisions, updates, and improvements to emergency plans to effectively handle disasters or major emergencies, develops new plans as needed, and ensures that plans are current and adequately addresses specific emergencies or disasters and confirm with accreditation regulatory requirements.
• Revises, updates, and / or develops emergency management standard operating procedures, ensures that operating procedures are consistent and understood by emergency management partners / liaisons, and maintains close communication with designated partners / liaisons in order to relay new procedures and developments.
• Coordinates with internal departments and external partners that have operational roles in emergency situations for the purpose of developing multi-agency approaches to emergency management planning.
• Conducts and / or supports risk and threat assessments, works with internal departments on specific emergency plans, coordinates interdepartmental drills, and serves as an advisor during disaster mitigation, response, and recovery efforts.
• Participates in ensuring organizational preparedness through inventorying available equipment and supplies, and ensuring readiness of staff and assigned facilities.
• Facilitates regular meetings with internal departments to accomplish emergency management program goals and objectives.
• Ensures the readiness of the Emergency Operations Centers through conducting inventory, ensuring plans and other applicable documents are up to date, and testing all technology.
• Represents Emergency Management at various committees / external partner meetings and events as assigned by the Emergency Management Director.
• Performs as the Emergency Management POC on-call, on a rotating basis, to support with incident and event response 30-50% of the time.

Minimum Qualifications

Education : Bachelor's degree required.

Licensure, Certification & Registration : N / A

Experience : 1-3 years of experience in emergency management, public safety, program management, and / or operational planning.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities :

Preferred Qualifications & Skills :

Dept / Unit Specific Skills :

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled