Director, Business Continuity & Resilience

Help Protect the Mission Behind Every Moment of Care

At Nemours Children’s Health, resilience is more than operational readiness. It is the ability to continue delivering exceptional care, supporting associates, and serving children and families when the unexpected happens.

We are seeking an accomplished Director, Business Continuity & Resilience to build and lead our enterprise Business Continuity Management Program and strengthen readiness across our health system. This highly visible leadership role will help ensure that Nemours can anticipate disruption, respond with confidence, recover effectively, and continue advancing our mission during our most challenging moments.

As Director, you will establish the enterprise strategy, governance, standards, and performance framework for business continuity and resilience. Working with executive leaders and teams across clinical operations, information technology, facilities, security, supply chain, legal, communications, and emergency preparedness, you will connect people, processes, technology, and recovery capabilities into an integrated resilience program.

Your work will help protect critical services, strengthen organizational decision-making, and support Nemours’ ability to remain ready for business disruptions, significant incidents, and emerging risks. You will influence across the enterprise, bring clarity to complex situations, and help leaders translate risk into practical, sustainable action.

• Establish and continuously improve Nemours’ enterprise Business Continuity Management Program, including governance, policies, standards, procedures, templates, and lifecycle management.
• Lead the enterprise continuity-of-operations framework and promote consistent implementation across business units and regions.
• Oversee business impact analyses to identify critical processes, dependencies, recovery requirements, and appropriate recovery strategies.
• Ensure continuity plans remain current, actionable, and connected to identified risks and operational priorities.
• Develop an integrated testing and exercise program that validates business, operational, clinical-support, technology, and facilities recovery capabilities.
• Strengthen enterprise incident-command readiness through crisis and continuity playbooks, decision-support tools, role-based training, and exercises.
• Partner with IT, Facilities, Security, and other stakeholders to integrate business continuity with disaster recovery and facilities recovery.
• Monitor emerging risks, elevate material concerns, and support leaders in developing effective mitigation strategies.
• Create executive dashboards and meaningful performance measures that demonstrate program maturity, readiness, and effectiveness.
• Provide standards, guidance, templates, and integration support to regional and site emergency-preparedness teams.
• Contribute to continuity and resilience reviews involving critical third-party service providers.
• Build strong relationships with leaders, associates, administrators, and vendors across Nemours.

Nemours Children’s Health provides care through two freestanding children’s hospitals and a pediatric network serving communities across multiple states. Our work extends beyond clinical treatment to research, education, advocacy, prevention, and partnerships designed to help create the healthiest generations of children.

In this role, you will help protect the systems, services, and partnerships that make that work possible. Your leadership will support an organization‑wide culture in which resilience is built into how we plan, operate, respond, and improve.

• At least 10 years of progressive…