Business Continuity Manager

Job Description

Business Continuity and disaster recovery Officer/Manager:Business Continuity and disaster recovery Officer/Manager focuses on ensuring continuity in business processes before, during, and after a disaster. All business continuity plans should be executed as a team, with individuals from all appropriate departments in to get the business up and running again after a disaster.Manage the implementation and day to day functions related to creating and developing Business Continuity Plans and Procedures, while also managing Disaster Recovery operations within the company.Key Responsibility:

1. Contingency Planning ? Identify potential Business Interruptions, develop safeguards against these interruptions, and implement recovery procedures in the event of a business interruption. Provide documentation and training on Contingency Planning concepts and procedures.
2. Disaster Recovery ? Aid the Disaster Recovery Team in safeguarding data processing operations by identifying potential problem areas and single points of failure that may result in interruptions to critical data processing operations. Develop and implement Disaster Recovery, Data Sensitivity, Backup and Recovery, and Disaster Recovery Plans and Procedures.
3. Business Recovery ? Develop safeguards and Business Recovery Plans and Procedures governing the remote Business Offices and Operations associated with the organization. Insure that Corporate Asset Protection procedures cover critical Business Resources located at Business Offices.
4. Risk Management ? Identify and Categorize outage exposures that could cause a business interruption, then obtain Insurance and Vendor agreements whenever necessary to safeguard against a disaster event. Responsible for insuring that Business and Regulatory Requirements are adhered to and that implemented recovery procedures and contracts are cost justifiable.
5. Development ? Directing or assisting in the development of Business Continuity Plans and Procedures, and providing regular status updates to the Operational Risk Steering Committee.
6. Change Management ? Assessing the Business Continuity implications of proposed technological or organizational changes, and coordinating any revisions to existing Business Continuity Plans and Procedures necessitated by such changes.
7. Administration ? Coordinating routine updates to the detailed information supporting the Business Continuity Procedures (e.g., contact lists, personnel assignments, hardware and software specifications, network diagrams, vital records management and inventory lists, offsite backup schedules, etc.). Coordinating electronic access to, and hard copy distribution of, the Business Continuity Plans and Procedures. Administering contracts and service agreements with Business Continuity service providers.
8. Training and Awareness ? Ensuring all personnel with specific Business Continuity responsibilities are adequately trained to fulfill their assigned responsibilities. Ensuring all employees maintain their familiarity with the relevant provisions of the Business Continuity Plans.
9. Testing and exercising ? Ensuring that all technical components of the Business Continuity Plans are successfully tested at least annually, or whenever significant changes are made to those components. Planning and coordinating at least one simulation exercise a year, involving all critical business units. Documenting the results of all tests and exercises, and identifying any recommended enhancements to the Business Continuity Plans and Procedures.
10. Execution ? Providing 7x24 on call support for any emergency, which may require activation of all or part of the Business Continuity Plans. In the event that activation is required, serving as liaison between the Crisis Management Team (i.e., senior management) and the Business Continuity Teams (i.e., the teams recovering operations at the alternate facilities and the teams restoring operations at the home facility).

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