Associate Director - Business Continuity Management

Job description

The role is responsible for supporting the development, implementation, and maintenance of the organization's BCM. This role ensures that the organization can effectively respond to and recover from disruptive events, minimizing the impact on operations, and assets. He/she is responsible for the implementation of the BCPs, procedures, and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analysis and documentation in line with IT policy and procedures and in a manner that provides effective continuity or restoration of the employer’s infrastructure and systems for business. • Support on defining, approving, implementing, and maintaining BCP to be ready for use during disruptive incidents, to continue delivering its important and urgent activities, at an acceptable pre-defined level. • Support measuring and evaluating effectiveness of the BCPs periodically • Maintain and keep the BCPs and arrangements up-to-date • Implement, monitor, and report on the the employer business continuity framework • Implement business systems and data backup and recovery schedules, plans, tests, and actions in line with the company’s policy • Implement continuity and recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets including primary and recovery sites. • Support on Test documented continuity and recovery strategies and plans in line with the policy • Report on the the employer business continuity plans, tests, initiatives, and actions in line with its policy. • Ensure compliance to the Bank policies, procedures, regulatory standards, and guidelines • Enforce, incorporate, and comply with all necessary controls and related information security (EIS) policies, practices, training, reporting, personal due diligence, and vigilance, within departmental/unit activities and operations

Requirements

• Preferred Qualifications
• A tertiary-level qualification from a recognized institution
• Years & Nature of Experience
• Recommended to be 1 to 3 years of experience in the same or a similar domain
• If with experience, would have been accountable for the completion of assigned tasks and project work and has developed a level of competence to carry out work independently
• Experience in Disaster recovery planning and Business Continuity planning
• Technical Competencies
• Project Management
• Business Risk Assessment
• Crisis management
• Behavioral Competencies
• Proactive and self-directed
• Excellent communication skills
• Integrity and Agility

Skills