Emergency Management Specialist - Emergency Management

Facility:

CoxHealth South: 3801 S National Ave, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807

Department:

1655 Emergency Management

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

0

Hours:

Varied

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:

• Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times.

• Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group. 

• Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.

• Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)

• For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth

Job Description:

The Emergency Management Specialist assists with emergency preparedness, incident command, and regulatory compliance. This position requires a proactive professional with an understanding of healthcare systems, risk management, and how to mitigate operational disruptions during emergencies. This position will require close communication and collaboration with other team members internally and externally. Executes other duties as assigned by leadership.

Education:

• Required: High School Diploma
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Emergency and Disaster Management, Homeland Security, or related field

Experience:

• Required: 3+ years' healthcare and/or Emergency Management experience (Law Enforcement and/or military training experience preferred)

Skills:

• Excellent communication skills in both written and verbal formats to include public speaking
• Proven skills facilitating interactive planning meetings (virtual and in-person) according to an agenda, managing time, and including multiple department leaders
•  Previous work with adult learners, including training development and facilitation
•  Demonstrated experience in developing discussion-based and operations-based exercises of varying sizes and complexity
• Possess ability to maintain a tolerant and congenial presence when dealing with public, crews and other departments while representing CoxHealth and the Office of Emergency Management in the community.

Licensure/Certification:

• Preferred  - any Emergency management related certifications