Emergency Management and Business Continuity Specialist

• Support organizational planning to address disasters, interruptions of business functions and enterprise resilience.
• Assist with the development of plans for continuity of essential functions and resumption of complete business operations.
• Monitor business and operation changes to ensure plans remain current and valid.
• Perform business process analysis/business impact analysis (BPA/BIA), risk assessments of essential functions and/or information systems.
• Collaborate with key infrastructure teams to identify gaps, set recovery time objectives, and convey business needs/expectations.
• Ensure accurate documentation of system resilience and redundancy is maintained.
• Collaborates with the Regional Hospital Emergency Preparedness designee in supporting The University of Kansas Health System (TUKHS) Emergency Management Program (EMP0 mission, values, and goals.
• Support the tests and exercises related to the execution of Business Continuity (BC) plans.
• Assist in the execution of the table-top, functional and Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Support the vision and system strategic development, implementation, and sustainment of the Business Continuity Program.
• Support health system-wide leadership of Business Continuity Planning (BCP), EMP management and Disaster Recovery (DR) operations and procedures for TUKHS organization.
• Provides support and coordination for personnel and activities related to emergency and disaster planning, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.
• Assists in the daily operation of the program across the system including the design, development, implementation, and ongoing support of projects relating to organizational resilience (i.e.: organizational risk, emergency management and business continuity planning).
• Support enterprise program policy and framework for emergency management and business continuity plan, conducting annual reviews of plans and providing recommendations.
• Coordinates resources to complete plans and participate in training.
• Ensures compliance with Joint Commission, ASPR, CMS, HICS, HFPA 1600 and other relevant standards.
• Provides strategic direction in the formulation, implementation, and execution of strategic (long-range) planning processes that incorporate performance measures and reporting results to address emergency management/business continuity initiatives.
• Supports the Hospital Command Center to coordinate emergency response activities during a business interruption or disaster.
• Provides guidance in the resolution of complex problems or issues impacting operations.
• As needed, coordinates with local and state governmental, health care, and law enforcement agencies, i.e., public health and the business community for emergency planning.
• Participates in engagement with various federal and state government agency committee and subcommittee meetings including local and/or regional conferences involving existing and future regulatory-related expectations related to BCP.
• Develop curriculum and conducts training on emergency management and business continuity.
• Assists in the coordination of core BCP activities and serves as the catalyst to ensure the BCP activities are carried out in the most effective and efficient means possible.
• Collects and analyzed pertinent BCP and DR data and information.
• Provide support with the writing Business Impact Analysis reports for Health System departments determined to be critical and for the development and oversight of programs to raise awareness within TUKHS related to EMP and BCP issues, guidelines, and procedures.
• Support the effort with writing business continuity plans which incorporate the results of the data analysis, and recovery strategies to be used when the plans are invoked.
• Provides support to assist that the EMP’s and BCP’s are tested, and the test results are appropriately documented. The test results will then be analyzed, and the business continuity plans will be modified accordingly, and future tests will be predicated on any relative findings from the previous test cycle.
• Supports emergency management planning and business continuity planning to provide education to local leadership, management, department administrators and line staff, as appropriate, as to the content of the plan, how to effectively use the plan, and participate in the plan review and update.
• Support efforts to ensure all established BCP performance measures are being met or exceeded.
• Works closely with Emergency Preparedness Manager and BC/DR Director in ensuring all the overall program goals are being achieved.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited College or University in Nursing, Disaster Recovery, Incident Response, Emergency Preparedness, Business/Organizational Leadership, Occupational Safety Management, or related field.
• National Incident Management System (NIMS) IS 100, IS 200, IS 700, and IS 800 training within 120 days of hire. Completes IS 300 and 400 within the timeline set by supervisor.
• ICS 300: Intermediate Incident Command System for Expanding Incidents.
• ICS 400: Advanced Incident Command System for Command and General Staff - Complex Incidents.

5 or more years in planning or operations field.