Coordinator, Emergency Management, Health Emergency

2 weeks ago


Vancouver, Canada PHSA Full time

**Coordinator, Emergency Management, Health Emergency Management BC**

HEMBC Vancouver Island

Vancouver, BC

Ensure our health services are optimally prepared for emergencies, so we can provide health services even when disaster strikes. Emergencies and disasters are an increasing threat to the well-being of British Columbians. Health Emergency Management BC (HEMBC) Coordinators work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment to prepare for and respond to these threats.

As a HEMBC Coordinator,
**you will**:

- Help diverse health staff plan for emergencies
- Facilitate simulations that test a hospital’s ability to respond and treat the injured
- Be a key member of BC’s command centres during emergencies

Your ability to solve problems and innovate will be in demand, and your lifelong commitment to learning will help us learn from disasters across the globe.

**What you’ll do**
- Recommending and implementing integrated emergency management and business continuity plans
- Coordinating emergency exercise programs, education, training and responses
- Coordinating with corporate and provincial plans and ensuring alignment with policies and procedures
- Testing emergency management and business continuity plans under the direction of the HEMBC Senior Leadership Team
- Addressing gaps in plans and implementing other ways to improve outcomes
- Developing and maintaining emergency management manuals and documentation
- Coordinating communication strategies such as emergency preparedness and awareness
- Developing promotional materials

**What you bring**

**Qualifications**:

- A degree in emergency management or the equivalent in education, training, and experience
- Five (5) years’ recent related experience in a large institutional or campus environment, including two (2) years’ managing business continuity and/or emergency management programs for a large complex multi-site environment, or the equivalent of education, training and experience
- Interpersonal and negotiations skills, including the ability to present to a wide range of individuals, group and stakeholders
- The ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with staff, management, contractors, and external partners
- The ability to develop and deliver training, exercises, education programs and/or workshops

Skills & Knowledge
- Awareness of and commitment to learning and understanding the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight Report (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), and Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls calls for justice, and how they intersect across the health care system.
- Supports team members on their learning journey, ensuring education strategy for team/department to implement Indigenous Cultural Safety at a practical level.
- Works collaboratively with appropriate Indigenous teams/departments to ensure ICS lens applied holistically.
- Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).

**What we bring**

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too - offering health, wellness, development programs to support you - at work and at home.
- Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services and operations - offering vast opportunities for growth, development, and recognition programs that honour the commitment and contribution of all employees.
- Access to professional development opportunities through our in-house training programs, including +2,000 courses, such as our San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training course, or Core Linx for Leadership roles.
- Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including municipal pension plan, and psychological health & safety programs and holistic wellness resources.
- Annual statutory holidays (13) with generous vacation entitlement and accruement.
- PHSA is a remote work friendly employer, welcoming flexible work options to support our people (eligibility may vary, depending on position).
- Access to WorkPerks, a premium discount program offering a wide range of local and national discounts on electronics, entertainment, dining, travel, wellness, apparel, and more.

**Job Type**:Temporary, Full-time

**Temporary Duration**:Until return of incumbent

**Location**:600 W 10th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6

**Closing date**:Open Until Filled

**Hours of Work**:0800 to 1600 (Monday to Friday)

**Requisition # **144136E

**As per the current Public Health Order, full vaccination against COVID-19 is a condition of employment with PHSA



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