Program Lead - EM and Regulatory Affairs

Kids Are Our Everything.

 

Department

10034 Emergency Management and Regulatory Affairs

 

Pay Range

$73,195.20 - $121,971.20

 

Are you passionate about healthcare quality, regulatory excellence, and supporting safe, compliant patient care environments? This role offers the opportunity to work closely with the Executive Director of Accreditation to help ensure ongoing compliance with federal, state, and accreditation requirements across hospital locations. The position plays a key role in survey readiness, regulatory coordination, and serving as a trusted departmental resource for compliance standards and best practices.

Day Shift

 

Who We Are:

Accreditation, Licensure and Regulatory Affairs in maintaining high quality and safe care by ensuring organizational systems and processes comply with the state and federal regulations and other identified standards ex. Joint Commission. Participate and support activities relating to accreditation and regulatory standards for all Hospital sites including preparation for, compliance with, and follow up for all surveys.

About the Role:

Responsible for leading the project activities of assigned program. Coordinates status reports as well as participating on teams and working with project staff and stakeholders to assure that requirements are incorporated within the project design. Assigns work to team members to assure timely completion of project milestones and deliverables as appropriate. Develops policies and procedures as appropriate. Identifies and escalate issues following departmental guidelines.

 

What You'll Bring:

Minimum Education
Bachelor's Degree (Required) Or

Minimum Work Experience
3 years Relevant work experience (Required)
1-year Relevant work experience with Master's degree (Preferred)

Functional Accountabilities
Program Liaison

• Lead the program by being the primary point person.

• Serve as the liaison between CNHS and external stakeholders as needed

• Manage program specific partnerships with various stakeholders including leadership at affiliated institutions.
• Communicate barriers, challenges and any other issues that affect progress.

Budget and Financial Management

• May be responsible for appropriate use of funds and resources.

• Prepare documentation and projections to support new programs and the budget planning process.

• Monitor monthly performance reports and budget variances and resolve discrepancies as needed.

Safety

• Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance

• Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation

• Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation

• Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication

• Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers

• Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance

Benefits That Support You:

• Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, prescription, infertility, and transgender health services.
• Generous paid time off, including vacation accrual from day one, sick leave, holidays, and a personal day.
• Financial wellness support, including a 401(k) plan and healthcare and dependent care spending accounts.
• Employer-paid life, AD&D, and long-term disability coverage, with optional supplemental plans.
• Additional perks, including tuition assistance, fitness resources, employee assistance, commuter benefits, and more

Why Join Us:

• Nationally Recognized Excellence – Consistently ranked among the Top 10 Children’s Hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
• Leading Pediatric Care – One of the largest and most comprehensive children’s hospitals in the country, offering nationally ranked specialties and cutting-edge treatments.
• Innovation & Research – A premier academic medical center with a strong commitment to pediatric research, education, and advancing the future of child health.
• Mission-Driven Culture – Dedicated to providing family-centered care while fostering a collaborative, supportive environment for clinical teams

 

The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children’s National believes an individual’s base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children’s National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual’s combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children’s National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.

 

Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “Know Your Rights” poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here: Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.

 

Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.