Emergency Preparedness Coordinator

Job Details

Level: Experienced

Job Location:

Dilkon Medical Center - Dilkon, AZ 86047

Position Type:
Full-Time

Education Level: Associate Degree

Travel Percentage:
Frequent

Job Shift: Day

Under general supervision of the Compliance Officer – Risk Manager, the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator (EPC) is responsible for the development, planning, implementation, coordination, and maintaining a continuous comprehensive Emergency Preparedness Program for Winslow Indian Health Care Center, Inc. (WIHCC). This position ensures organizational compliance in accordance with tribal (Navajo Nation), local (county), state, federal (FEMA, ICS, CMS, JC, OSHA), and accrediting standards and regulations.

The EPC supports preparedness for all hazards and emergencies, including natural disasters, technological hazards, and human‑caused emergencies through planning, training, exercises, and collaboration with internal departments and external agencies, and key stakeholders. The EPC serves as Chair of the Emergency Preparedness Committee and leads as the primary liaison with tribal, local, state, and federal emergency management partners. This role ensures WIHCC maintains a constant state of readiness to protect patients, staff, and the community.

Upholds the principles of WIHCC’s Vision, Mission, and Value Statements. Maintains confidentiality of all privileged information at all times.

This list of duties and responsibilities is illustrative only of the tasks performed by this position and is not all‑inclusive.

• Maintains regular attendance and punctuality.
• Coordinates and guides the WIHCC Emergency Preparedness Program for WIHCC Service Area; to ensure compliance with Joint Commission, CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule, OSHA standards and other accrediting or regulatory bodies.
• Conducts annual Hazard Vulnerability Assessments (HVA) to identify and assess potential risks and hazards for natural (e.g. hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes), technological (e.g. hazardous materials spills), human‑caused hazards (e.g. active shooter or hostage situations), and other emergency disasters for all healthcare facilities.
• Develops, implements, and maintains the All‑Hazards Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) and supporting policies, procedures, and response protocols.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for emergency planning with Navajo Nation Dept. of Emergency Management, Navajo/ Coconino County Emergency Management, AZ Dept. of Health Services, FEMA, HHS, and IHS coordination.
• Develops policies & procedures for emergency planning, emergency management training and education, and emergency preparedness activities/ drills/ exercises with WIHCC, Inc. Departments and a wide variety of public and private agencies.
• Leads the development, evaluation, and updating of the Emergency Preparedness Plan and All Hazards, including policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and response protocols.
• Manages, develops, implements and maintains the All‑Hazards Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) and supporting policies, procedures, and response protocols.
• Chairs the Emergency Preparedness Committee and leads interdisciplinary collaboration across departments.
• Plans, coordinates, and evaluates emergency drills, and exercises, including tabletop, functional, and full‑scale exercises.
• Facilitates debriefs and creates the After Action Reports (AARs) and improvement plans following drills and real events.
• Assists and advises activation and operation of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) during events and maintains readiness of the facility for activation in disaster exercises and actual disaster events/ emergencies.
• Ensures compliance with Continuity of Operations (COOP) Planning and organizational resilience strategies.
• Collaborates with internal leadership and external partners such as EMS, fire departments, schools, law enforcement, community partners/ agencies/ organizations and local hospital emergency management coordinators.
• Monitors, schedules, and conducts in‑service training, seminars, briefings and workshops including but not limited to:
  Incident Command System (ICS), Disaster Response, Life Safety and Emergency…