This is a remote position.
We are seeking a strategic, hands-on Principal Program Analyst to lead and elevate Enterprise Resilience across our organization. This role will design, implement, and oversee a comprehensive resilience framework that ensures continuity of patient care, information technology, operations, and workplace safety through all phases of emergency management—mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. This role will drive emergency management program initiaives system-wide; partner with clinical, operational, and technology leaders; and translate risk into prioritized, actionable programs that measurably reduce downtime and protect staff and patients. The ideal candidate brings deep subject-matter expertise, proven leadership in high-stakes environments, excellent stakeholder influence, and a track record of building resilient, compliant systems that perform under pressure.
Essential Functions include:
- Program Management & Compliance: Manage and mature CommonSpirit Health’s Enterprise-wide Emergency Management program to achieve and sustain compliance and industry standards. Ensure resilience controls, policies, and supporting plans are systematically embedded across the entire health system.
- Resilience Planning: Implement new business continuity, cyber recovery, and enterprise resilience solutions, systems, and plans—designing end0to0end recovery strategies, integration patterns, and technical controls across clinical, operational, and IT environments to ensure rapid, coordinated recovery and minimal patient impact.
- Operational Integration: Partner with clinical, IT, and operational teams across CommonSpirit’s hospitals, clinics, and support services to operationalize resilience controls, close compliance gaps, and protect patient care and safety across all served jurisdictions.
- Emergency Management and Business Continuity Recovery Technical SME: Serve as the enterprise Subject Matter Expert (SME) for enterprise resilience. This includes designing response and recovery plans for new clinical and technology services, authoring system-specific plans and runbooks, and leading realistic exercises and tabletop simulations with care delivery, IT and supply chain partners.
- Procedure Harmonization: Collaborate with regional resilience leads and site leaders to harmonize crisis management, continuity, and recovery procedures across CommonSpirit's footprint, balancing enterprise standardization with local regulatory and operational requirements.
- Strategic Relationship Building: Build trusted relationships with clinical executives, operational leaders, and IT partners to foster and embed a culture of resilience within care delivery and enterprise operations.
The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.
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Education and Experience Requirements
- Bachelor's required, Master's preferred
- 10 years Progressively responsible experience driving technical resilience programs across crisis management, enterprise resilience, IT disaster recovery, business continuity, cyber resilience, or closely related domains—preferably within complex healthcare, large-scale enterprise, or highly regulated environments.
- Demonstrated track record leading cross-functional, high0impact initiatives, building and maturing resilience frameworks, and delivering measurable reductions in downtime, risk exposure, and recovery times.
