Job Description
The Director, HR Solutions provides strategic leadership to strengthen HR capability, experience, and readiness, including designing and sustaining HR emergency management and workforce preparedness strategies. This role ensures HR teams have clear guidance, tools, and playbooks to effectively support team members and leaders while maintaining business continuity during both routine operations and emergency events.
The Director leads a team focused on HR capability development, HR experience, learning & development, and emergency preparedness. Working closely with HR leadership and senior stakeholders, this role identifies capability gaps, reinforces shared expectations, and delivers practical learning approaches, preparedness plans, and situational response frameworks that enable HR to operate consistently, confidently, and effectively in stable and emergency environments.
Job Responsibility
- Develops and articulates a short-term (6 months – 1 year) strategic vision for both HR experiences and HR emergency management.
- Designs and maintains HR emergency management and workforce preparedness strategies, encompassing comprehensive readiness, response, mitigation, and recovery phases, ensuring HR teams can support team members and maintain business continuity during disruptions.
- Leads the continuous development and refinement of critical emergency management plans for diverse scenarios (e.g., pandemics, severe weather, cyberattacks, strikes, workplace incidents, etc.) to ensure organizational resilience.
- Develops and assists in conducting incident response planning, situational awareness exercises, and disaster preparedness training programs for relevant stakeholders across the organization.
- Provides strategic advice and guidance to inform system-level strategies and offers expert recommendations to senior executives on critical matters concerning HR initiatives and emergency event management.
- Designs and oversees HR learning approaches, including communities of practice, peer learning, and shared learning resources that strengthen consistency and collaboration across HR.
- Improves the HR team member experience by gathering feedback, identifying gaps, and making practical improvements to how HR teams work and connect. Develop clear, consistent methods to engage and inform the HR workforce, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and mission.
- Acts independently to uncover and resolve complex issues associated with the development and implementation of operational programs, devising new methods and procedures through strong analytical and inductive thinking.
- Leads and develops a team focused on HR capability, culture, learning, and readiness through coaching, clear expectations, and ongoing development.
- Manages the day-to-day expenditures for the assigned team, ensuring fiscal responsibility and optimal resource utilization.
Fosters a culture of continuous learning and growth by assisting in career development planning for team members and building capabilities within the HR and Emergency Management organizations.
Job Qualification
•Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience, required.
•Master's Degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience, preferred.
•8-12 years of preferred technical experience, with exposure to mergers and acquisitions.
•7+ years of leadership/management experience, preferred.
*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience
- Master's Degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience
- 8-12 years of preferred technical experience, with exposure to mergers and acquisitions
- 7+ years of leadership/management experience
What We Do
Northwell Health is New York’s largest private employer and health care provider, with 23 hospitals and nearly 800 outpatient facilities. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 74,000+ employees – 18,500+ nurses and 14,200+ credentialed physicians, including about 4,500 employed doctors and nearly 3,300 members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu. Interested in a career at Northwell Health?






