Assistant Emergency Management Officer

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The Assistant Emergency Management Officer ensures Cooper University Health Care maintains constant readiness for disasters and regulatory compliance by supporting emergency planning, training, and response across all sites. The role exists to coordinate preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts in alignment with national, state, and Joint Commission standards. By integrating Cooper Camden and Cooper Cape into a unified emergency program, the position strengthens resiliency, safeguards patient care, and enhances the health system’s overall disaster medicine capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Emergency operations planning, preparedness, response, and recovery management – Oversees and coordinates all phases of emergency management systemwide, ensuring alignment with national, state, and Joint Commission regulations.
• Disaster education, training, and exercises – Develops and delivers preparedness education, leads drills, evaluates performance through after-action reports, and supports certification in disaster life support courses.
• Ongoing readiness and regulatory compliance – Maintains continuous Joint Commission and NIMS/OSHA compliance, ensures disaster policies and procedures are up-to-date, and sustains readiness of hospital facilities, alternate care sites, and equipment.
• Incident management and response coverage – Serves on the Incident Management Team, provides on-call coverage for hospital incident command, and ensures 24/7 preparedness team availability.
• Oversight of Cooper Cape emergency management program – Builds and integrates disaster preparedness at Cooper Cape with the larger CUHC system, ensuring systemwide coordination.
• Committee and subcommittee leadership – Actively participates in hospital Emergency Management Committees at CUHC Camden and Cape, and contributes to specialized subcommittees (e.g. HCID, decontamination, MILDAF).
• Disaster supply and resource management – Conducts quarterly inventory of disaster supplies, maintains decontamination room/resources, and supports setup of alternate treatment or field hospital space.
• Program development and funding support – Drafts and manages grants and assists in expanding disaster-related course offerings aligned with Cooper’s disaster medicine leadership.

3-5 years required, which includes planning a local, regional, state or federal level.  Experience in the area of emergency/ disaster planning preferred.  Healthcare experience

High School/GED required. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Emergency Management, Public Safety, Fire Science, Criminal Justice, STEM or Allied Health related

• NIMS HICS/ICS 100, 200, 300, 700 and 800 or equivalencies required.
• HAZWOPER Awareness and Operations required.

• NJ Basic Emergency Manager certification within 1 year of hire

• HAZWOPER Incident Commander, Technician and/or Specialist within 3 years of hire

Communication – Ability to professionally and effectively communicate with patients, visitors and coworkers
Exemplifies informal leadership qualities and initiatives
Emergency Management/Incident Management software experience/proficiencies

Hours: vary

Responsible for oversight and presence at all Cooper locations, as needed