Emergency Management fosters prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities to protect our campus from the adverse effects of emergencies. We do this by relying on a multi-discipline collaboration, cooperation, and coordination approach with all departments within the university as well as city, county, state, and federal organizations. The section is dedicated to safeguarding the well-being of our campus community by effectively coordinating response efforts, providing comprehensive training, and developing robust emergency preparedness and business continuity plans.

The goal of academic and business continuity planning is to enable the University of Pittsburgh to maintain operations and services in the face of a disruptive or catastrophic event. The longer an institution takes to recover, the greater damage it sustains to its reputation. At Pitt, we call this plan UPitt Ready, which is a web-based continuity planning tool to create useful, thoughtful plans to ensure each unit's ability to continue its critical functions if an incident occurs. The software facilitates dialogues between key department figures in an interview-style questionnaire to help capture institutional knowledge and protocol.

Executes University business continuity strategies and business plans as well as assisting with individual department plans. Evaluates, analyzes, suggests improvements, and implements effective changes.

Executes University business continuity strategies and business plans as well as assisting with individual department plans. Evaluates, analyzes, suggests improvements, and implements effective changes.

Develops and implements business continuity strategies and implementation of business plans for the University.Assists in updates, guidance, and maintenance of individual departmental plans. Develops and writes plans and supports implementation.Evaluates business continuity, crisis, and emergency management strategies, plans, and procedures. Suggests improvements; implements effective changes.Analyzes impact and risk to essential business functions and/or information systems; identifies acceptable time periods and resource requirements.Performs outreach across departments to determine focus and areas of strategic effort.Prepares reports summarizing goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.Ensures compliance with all University, regulatory, and accreditation guidelines.Responsible for the systems maintenance, implementation and user training for the University’s Common Operational Picture program, WebEOC an emergency management communication platform.Monitors the Emergency Operations Center operating systems and coordinates maintenance and systems upgrades.Coordinates training for outside departments.