Director of Infection Prevention & Control

Location: Elmira, NY |
Schedule: Full-Time, Hybrid with rotational on-site presence |
Compensation: 140k - 180k

A leading healthcare organization is seeking an experienced Director of Infection Prevention & Control to provide strategic, system-wide leadership across hospitals, ambulatory locations, and post-acute care settings. This highly visible role oversees infection prevention strategy, regulatory compliance, accreditation readiness, quality outcomes, patient safety, antimicrobial stewardship, and enterprise risk mitigation, serving as a trusted advisor to executive and clinical leadership.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive, system-wide infection prevention strategy aligned with organizational priorities, public health needs, and community health assessments.
• Maintain a rotational on-site presence across hospitals, ambulatory locations, and post-acute facilities.
• Advise executive and clinical leadership on emerging infectious threats, epidemiologic trends, disease burden, and exposure risks.
• Lead governance structures integrating infection prevention with quality, patient safety, and enterprise risk management.
• Serve as the accountable executive for system-level infection prevention risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with Population Health, Public Health agencies, Laboratory, Pharmacy, and clinical service lines.
• Use surveillance data and antibiograms to address antimicrobial resistance and strengthen antimicrobial stewardship.
• Ensure compliance with CMS Conditions of Participation, Joint Commission standards, NHSN requirements, and applicable state and federal regulations.
• Provide executive oversight for regulatory surveys, tracers, audits, and unannounced regulatory visits.
• Partner with Quality, Risk, Clinical Documentation Integrity, Clinical Data, and Patient Safety leaders to monitor and reduce Healthcare-Associated Conditions.
• Develop evidence-based interventions to reduce variation in care, improve outcomes, and protect reimbursement under value-based purchasing programs.
• Lead and mentor infection prevention leadership and professional staff across the system.
• Establish succession planning and competency-development programs.
• Foster a culture of accountability, psychological safety, professional development, and high performance.
• Partner with Finance, Communications/Marketing, Quality leadership, and Chief Medical Officers to communicate infection prevention performance and its organizational and financial impact.
• Integrate infection prevention standards into employee onboarding, annual competencies, leadership education, and ongoing professional development.
• Serve as the escalation authority for complex infection prevention matters, outbreak responses, and cross-disciplinary issues.
• Facilitate evidence-based solutions and ensure lessons learned are translated into sustainable organizational practices.
• Maintain oversight of infection-prevention-related performance expectations and metrics associated with clinical contracts.
• Promote and facilitate research and continuous improvement initiatives related to infection prevention and patient care.

• Master's degree in Nursing, Epidemiology, Microbiology, Public Health, or a related health science discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in infection prevention, epidemiology, or quality leadership.
• Minimum 5 years of director-level or system-level leadership experience.
• Certification in Infection Control (CIC®) required.
• Demonstrated success leading infection prevention across a multi-hospital healthcare system.
• Experience working with public health agencies.
• Demonstrated ability to design, facilitate, and sustain improvement initiatives across hospitals and clinical settings.
• Strong ability to establish…