Business Continuity Specialist
Business Continuity Specialist
1872 Consulting
Chicago, IL
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Summary:
The Business Continuity Specialist is responsible to maintain the planning, governance, implementation, maintenance, and execution of Business Continuity components. The role will work directly with critical process leaders to ensure that policies, plans, procedures, and strategies effectively provide the recovery framework for restoration of critical processes that meet or exceed business demand.
Duties and Responsibilities:
REQUIREMENTS
The Business Continuity Specialist is responsible to maintain the planning, governance, implementation, maintenance, and execution of Business Continuity components. The role will work directly with critical process leaders to ensure that policies, plans, procedures, and strategies effectively provide the recovery framework for restoration of critical processes that meet or exceed business demand.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordinate the development and maintenance of comprehensive Business Impact Analyses, Risk Assessments, Change Management, and Audit Management program components.
- Provide input and integrate policies, guidelines, and controls to govern program effectiveness and alignment with industry best practices. Maintain the Firm's ISO 22301 certification.
- Complete Risk Assessments to identify inadequate strategies and concerns with associated remediation tactics for project sponsors.
- Participate in enterprise-wide risk assessments, which include periodic and random inspections; prepare associated reports as necessary.
- Maintain Firm wide change control of Business Continuity, Life Safety, and Security documentation.
- Facilitate the completion of Business Impact Analysis through survey development, roundtable discussions and best practice methodology reporting.
- Ensure appropriate plans, procedures and supplemental documentation is properly maintained and readily available.
- Plan and schedule all Business Continuity exercises.
- Coordinate ongoing Business Continuity awareness and training sessions that reinforce familiarity with roles/responsibilities and plan procedures. Analyze weekly and monthly metrics, benchmark milestones, and program progress to the Business Continuity sponsors and leadership.
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree.
- Minimum of 5 years practical experience in the Business Continuity industry regarding the development of plans, procedures, strategies, risk assessments, business impact analysis, audit reviews, exercise facilitation, contractual review and vendor management.
- Proven competency in the timely management and execution of large projects.
- Administrator level skill with Emergency Notification Systems and similar planning applications.
- MS Office proficiency with Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and Project.
- Possess a broad global experience in the key areas of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, as well as program management experience in public/private BCP programs, and functional knowledge and expertise in core competencies of emergency response, and crisis management.
- Certification in good standing from DRII (CBCP), BCI (MBCI), ICOR (CORS), or FEMA PCP-1.
- Active memberships in Business Continuity peer groups.
- Familiarization with Fusion Risk Management software.
- Project management experience.
- Experience working in a distributed/virtual environment.
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Seniority level
Entry level -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Business Development and Sales -
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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