Emergency Management Program Lead - Weill Cornell Medical Center - Full Time - Days

Your Emergency Management Expertise, Applied to Healthcare.

Emergency Management Program Lead

Join NewYork Presbyterian’s Emergency Management team and help shape preparedness across one of the nation’s most highly respected healthcare systems. This role offers a rare opportunity to lead enterprise-wide initiatives while working within a dynamic, matrixed environment that values collaboration, innovation, and resilience. Emergency management is strongly supported at NYP, with regular exposure to and partnership with senior executives who prioritize readiness at every level of the organization. You’ll play a visible, influential role advancing planning, training, and response efforts that protect patients, staff, and our environment. Success in this role requires a strong attention to detail and a commitment to producing high-quality work that ensures plans and programs are reliable, precise, and operationally sound. If you’re energized by complexity, leadership engagement, and meaningful impact, this is an exceptional opportunity to grow your career.

In this role, you will Lead and advance emergency preparedness initiatives across the NewYork‑Presbyterian Hospital enterprise by overseeing the planning, coordination, and execution of Emergency Management programs, operations, logistics, and special projects to ensure organizational resilience. Develops and maintains regional response and recovery plans in collaboration with internal stakeholders and external partners, serves as a primary liaison to regulatory and emergency management agencies, and works closely with leadership to optimize grant funding, establish enterprise standards, and deliver high-quality deliverables, training and exercises that strengthen system‑wide readiness, safety, and security.

Preferred Criteria:

• FEMA Train the trainer: Hazmat Awareness AWR-358, HERT PER-902

Required Criteria:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of progressive experience in a healthcare related or emergency preparedness position; preferably in an emergency setting
• Experience or exposure to emergency preparedness operations, efforts, and planning
• FEMA IS 100, 200, 700 and 800, ICS 300 and 400, HSEEP (within one-year)
• Demonstrated leadership in the establishment of standards (e.g. bioterrorism, etc.)
• Strong attention to detail and desire for superior work ensuring excellence in output
• Works independently with minimal supervision while consistently delivering accurate, high-quality results
• Strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills with effective presentation capabilities
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in high-performance environments while effectively working across functions within a matrixed organization
• Demonstrates composure, adaptability, and a solution-oriented mindset in dynamic environments with shifting priorities and evolving goals.

Join a healthcare system where employee engagement is at an all-time high. Here we foster a culture of respect, belonging, and inclusion. Enjoy comprehensive and competitive benefits that support you and your family in every aspect of life. Start your life-changing journey today.

Please note that all roles require on-site presence (variable by role). Therefore, all employees should live within a commutable distance to NYP.

NYP will not reimburse for travel expenses.

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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is an equal opportunity employer.

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It all begins with you. Our amazing compensation packages start with competitive base pay and include recognition for your experience, education, and licensure. Then we add our amazing benefits, countless opportunities for personal and professional growth and a dynamic environment that embraces every person. Join our team and discover where amazing works.