Assistant Director, Center for Disaster Medicine

About the role

The Assistant Director, CDM provides leadership and strategic direction for the Center for Disaster Medicine (CDM) within the Mass General Brigham Department of Emergency Preparedness and Continuity (DEPC). The Assistant Director leads healthcare preparedness initiatives, manages externally funded programs, and coordinates with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a leader for CDM within the MGB Department of Emergency Preparedness and Continuity
• Co-leads development of strategic plans and work plans, ensuring growth of CDM initiatives, with a focus on healthcare preparedness programming
• Serves as a subject matter expert and/or lead on local, regional, and national working groups
• Collaborates with other leaders within the MGB Department of Emergency Preparedness and Continuity to support the overall mission and priorities for the Department
• Coordinates with other team members to provide data for the annual operating budget, grant applications, and programmatic reports and to support grant documentation
• Manages several CDM externally funded programs and contributes to development of proposals for new funding opportunities
• Supports program response operations (following appropriate onboarding and training) by serving as an on-call Duty Officer for assigned periods of time
• Directly supervises staff managing CDM’s healthcare preparedness work (approximately 3-6 FTEs)
• Led healthcare preparedness staffing decisions, including hiring, training, and support of all team personnel
• Provides direction to personnel to develop innovative educational modalities for all-hazard and disaster response for internal and Regional programs
• Leads engagement activities to strengthen healthcare preparedness across all of Region 1 and to support national readiness initiatives
• Represents the Region 1 RDHRS on national working groups and committees, including collaboration with other RDHRS Regions
• Leads strategic goal setting and guides team members in project planning and implementation efforts
• Positions the RDHRS as a national leader in Regional healthcare preparedness
• Manages the Region 1 Medical Operations Coordination Center (MOCC)
• Ensures process improvement occurs post-response for any activations

Qualifications

• Demonstrates exceptional people management and leadership
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Significant experience leading complex programs and projects in healthcare readiness – including experience leading dynamic projects, setting realistic goals, and delivering quality work products
• Proven experience leading teams in a complex, multidisciplinary environment
• Strong leadership skills, interpersonal skills, consensus building skills
• Ability to provide clear direction and leadership in stressful and complex situations
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office suite applications; specifically, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Maturity and operational problem solving/decision making experience
• Experience in emergency management in a hospital and/or healthcare setting is required
• Experience and working knowledge of the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS), including completion of ICS/NIMS 100,200, 700, 800 courses
• Attention to detail and creation of exceptional work products
• Experience with project management/task tracking software