Business Continuity Officer
We are looking for an experienced Business Continuity Officer with in-depth knowledge of creating and maintaining plans to respond, recover, resume and restore to a pre-defined level of operations, following disruptive events and help minimize the impact of such events when they occur.
Responsibilities:
Create and maintain Business Continuity Management Policy documents.
- Conduct a risk assessment with BUs to identify potential business continuity threats and vulnerabilities.
- Review the comprehensiveness and effectiveness of BU-specific BIAs, Risk Assessment, BCPs, and DRP submitted by the Business Units, following the approval of the BU Chief Officer.
- Create and maintain organizational BCP and Recovery Plan.
- Ensure availability of comprehensive BU-specific test plan.
- Review and ensure the comprehensiveness and effectiveness of the annual BCP Test results.
- Liaise with the Spokesperson of the Company to create a Communication Plan.
- Ensure that the Incident and Crisis Management Plan and Communication Plan is up-to-date and comprehensive.
- Responsible to drive continual improvement with regards to the BCMS within the Company.
- Ensure MTPD and MBCO for critical products and services are defined and set up.
- Ensure all applicable legal and regulatory requirements pertaining to business continuity & the interest of the relevant interested parties shall be met during establishing, implementing, and maintaining the BCMS.
- Provides “hands-on” support to business units in the development of business unit recovery plans and BC-related documents, leveraging existing efforts and best practices.
- Develop training materials and provide:
- BCM awareness to employees and their BCM responsibilities.
- General BCM awareness to staff members that may not be directly involved in BCM but need to know their role in times of a disaster.
- Provide data-driven analysis to assist management in decision-making.
- Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts as soon as a disruption event occurs.
- Prepare and issue status reports on projects and initiatives assigned and prepare management reports as necessary.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, telecom engineering, disaster or crisis management, or a related field. CBCI will be considered as an advantage.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a BCM including program management, business impact analysis, planning techniques for business recovery, mitigation and crisis management.
- Knowledge of Business Continuity according to ISO 22301.
- In-depth understanding of business continuity management and frameworks, strong knowledge of business continuity best practices, protocols and regulations, operational risk management, and in-depth knowledge and expertise of the different operations such as IT practices.
- Excellent collaboration and communications skills with the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of IT disaster recovery planning and processes.
- Experience in disaster recovery processes.
- High degree of knowledge in Microsoft applications (i.e. Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- Highly driven and motivated individual, with strong personal presence, integrity and trust.
- Time management with the ability to prioritise.
- Positive and can-do attitude.
- Driving license is required.
- Experience in telecommunications will be considered as an advantage.
All applications will be handled with complete confidentiality. Interested candidates may send their CVs to [email protected] by March 18th, 2022 with subject reference “RR7B”.
