| Job Duties |
1. Provides expert level health care emergency management knowledge
to UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) hospitals and research
departments while leading and assisting those organization's
as their business continuity plans are created, modified,
and drilled. Researches and stays abreast of all major threats
that could impact UT Southwestern Medical Center's (UTSW) business
activities including mergers/acquisitions, earthquakes, and
changes in economic conditions.
2. Represent UTSW and take a leadership role with governmental
and community health care related emergency management committees
as they move to 1) organize the Dallas County medical operations
center, develop operational processes, and identify sources of
funding, 2) coordinate regional hospital emergency management
processes, drills, and sharing of resources, and 3) lead the effort
to develop and execute processes that support the
inter-institutional and UT System mutual aid agreements.
3. Performs periodic business impact analyses (BIAs) which examine
the major risks to UTSW's ability to perform its mission
(floods, bomb explosions, fires, tornados are examples of such
risks).
4. Prepares budgets, cost/benefit analyses, and other financial
evaluations of the currently available business continuity
planning options. Develops customized damage assessment and
reporting methods to be used after a business emergency or
disaster, and periodically performs "post mortems" to determine
the degree to which these methods are accurate and useful.
5. Coordinates business continuity planning efforts with all major
UTSW divisions, including hospitals. Reviews the business
continuity plans developed by departments and other organizational
units to ensure that they meet UTSW standards, and also to ensure
that they have integrated all applicable UTSW business continuity
planning practices. Evaluates commercially-available business
continuity planning tools, such as those that run on a desktop
computer, and makes recommendations about the packages that would
best support UTSW's business continuity planning efforts.
6. Individually and through the Business Continuity staff, assists
business units in developing and maintaining up-to-date and
practical business continuity plans which assist UTSW in quickly
restoring operations after an emergency or a disaster that
affects centralized multi-departmental business resources.
Responds to level 3 disasters or serious incidents, assists with
the response and recovery coordination, collects status, and keeps
executive management informed.
7. With the individual business unit staff, plans and conducts
departmental recovery plan exercises. Develops methodologies and
instructional material that assist UTSW workers in preparing
their own business continuity plans to deal with decentralized
or single department business resources, such as a medical clinic.
8. Provides expert technical assistance related to business
continuity planning to departments throughout UTSW who are
preparing, testing, and updating their own business continuity
plans for decentralized or single department business resources.
9. Assists with the establishment of practical and integrated
organization-wide business continuity plans which combine
information systems recovery plans with business continuity plans.
10. Assists with major business loss event related insurance claim
investigations that are necessary in order for UTSW to receive
the proceeds from insurance policies.
11. Attends several conferences or training seminars per year to
become acquainted with the latest tools, techniques, and best
practices for business continuity planning.
12. Performs other duties as assigned.
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