Director of Emergency Management

CO Salary Range: USD 110,100.00 - 155,000.00 per year

Posting Date
07/23/2025

2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States of America

Purpose/Objective:

Leads enterprise-wide emergency management to support and improve DaVita's capability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptions. The Director of Emergency Management is responsible for the development, implementation, and oversight of comprehensive emergency preparedness and response programs across all dialysis clinics, regional offices, central business offices and support centers nationwide. This position ensures organizational resilience through effective planning, training, and coordination with internal stakeholders, external agencies and DaVita's senior leadership team. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with hands-on experience in healthcare emergency management, particularly in supporting medically vulnerable populations such as patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

Key Accountabilities:

• Crisis/Emergency Management: Provide leadership support during crisis events, including scheduling and facilitating status meetings; tracking completion of action plans; developing and distributing status updates; managing activation of recovery strategies; and creating post-incident reports. Ensure coordination of planning, testing, and response activities between crisis management, information technology, and information security.
• Testing and Exercises: Oversee the testing of documented crisis management plans to provide reasonable assurances of effectiveness. Work with business units and Information Technology to ensure testing for critical systems, including third party systems to ensure that appropriate strategies are in place to respond to, restore, and minimize disruption to in-house and outsourced critical technology systems. Analyze testing results and ensure business lines remediate exceptions and incorporate lessons learned. Ensure testing activities are documented.
• Emergency Notification System: Administer DaVita's emergency notification system, including user access, training, documentation, testing, troubleshooting, data validation, and generation of emergency notifications, as required.
• Provide oversight and project management for any Continual Improvement projects identified during Event Post Mortem After action plans.
• Oversee the procurement and deployment of appropriate emergency infrastructure including back up power, back up communications, water availability, flood mitigation and similar systems.
• Steering Committee and Board Reporting: Prepare and deliver periodic presentations to the various committees on the status of the Emergency Management Program, identified risks, and results of testing.

Additional Accountabilities:

• Maintain technical knowledge by tracking emerging trends in emergency management; attend educational workshops; review professional publications; and establish personal networks. Stay abreast of compliance with regulatory guidelines and requirements.
• Ensures compliance with all Healthcare laws, rules, regulations, and prescribed policies/practices/procedures necessary to reduce risk and uphold ethical standards related to and required by one's duties. Ensure alignment with national standards (e.g., NIMS, FEMA, ASPR TRACIE) and best practices in healthcare emergency management.
• Lead regular training and tabletop/full-scale exercises across field operations, regional teams, and corporate leadership to ensure readiness and compliance.
• Collaborate with learning and development teams to deploy emergency preparedness modules for clinical and non-clinical staff.
• Oversee the formation, training and deployment of DaVita's volunteer emergency response team (DaVERT Reserves)

Education:

• 4-year college or equivalent experience

Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Emergency Management, Public Health, Healthcare Administration, or related field
• 7+ years of progressive emergency management experience, with at least 3 years in a healthcare setting
• Deep understanding of CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule, NIMS, and HICS frameworks
• Experience supporting geographically distributed clinical operations
• Previous experience interacting with Sr. Leadership

Preferred:

• Master's degree (e.g., MHA, MPH, MPA)
• Certified Emergency Manager (CEM), Certified Healthcare Emergency Professional (CHEP), or related certification
• Prior experience supporting ESRD or dialysis providers
• Familiarity with ESRD Network coordination and patient transport protocols during disasters

Key Competencies:

• Strategic leadership and critical thinking
• Driven with ability to work independently and as part of a team to deliver quality work in a timely fashion in a fast-paced environment
• Crisis communication and coordination
• Regulatory acumen and documentation rigor
• Training design and facilitation
• Ability to operate calmly in high-pressure situations
• Collaborative and cross-functional mindset
• Ability to think strategically and drive tactical execution
• Ability to create and deliver high-impact presentations

Travel Requirements:

• Up to 25% domestic travel may be required for site visits, training, exercises, or disaster response.

Why Join Us:

You'll play a pivotal role in protecting the lives and continuity of care for one of the country's most vulnerable patient populations. Join a mission-driven organization where your work directly contributes to patient safety and operational resilience.

What We'll Provide:

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more

• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita's online training platform StarLearning.

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At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

Salary/ Wage Range
$110,100.00 - $155,000.00 / year

For location-specific minimum wage details, see the following link: DaVita.jobs/WageRates

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits

Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Client-provided location(s): Denver, CO

Job ID: DaVita-R0414339

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-07-24T12:38:46