Business Continuity Planning and Crisis Management

Role Infrastructure Security and Cloud Business Continuity & Crisis Manager

10-15 Years of experience with Business Continuity and Crisis management experience and skills.

Summary -

Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.

Job Tasks

Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets such as data centers.

Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.

Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.

Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.

Assess risks to business operations.

Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.

Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.

Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.

Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.

Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.

Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance.

Evaluate applicable laws and regulations to determine impact on organizational activities.

Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation.

Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.

Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.

Prepare research reports.

Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.

Identify strategic business investment opportunities.

Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets.

Analyze budgetary or accounting data.

Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.

Develop training materials.

Train personnel in organizational or compliance procedures.

Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.

Maintain data in information systems or databases.

Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber-attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.

Gather organizational performance information.

Oversee business processes.

Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.

Monitor organizational compliance with regulations.

Advise others on analytical techniques.

Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.

Assess risks to business operations.

Analyze business or financial data.

Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.

Develop business or financial information systems.

Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans.

Prepare operational reports.

Create scenarios to re-establish operations from various types of business disruptions.

Apply mathematical models of financial or business conditions.

Attend professional meetings, read literature, and participate in training or other educational offerings to keep abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity.

Update professional knowledge.

Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection.

Investigate legal issues.