About the Role
This role is responsible for supporting the development, implementation, and maintenance of the organization's Business Continuity Management (BCM) framework. The position ensures that the organization can effectively respond to and recover from disruptive events, minimizing the impact on operations and assets. Key responsibilities include the implementation of Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), procedures, and solutions, encompassing risk assessments, business impact analysis, and documentation in alignment with IT policy and procedures to ensure the effective continuity or restoration of the company's infrastructure and systems for business.
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Responsibilities
- Support defining, approving, implementing, and maintaining BCPs to ensure readiness for use during disruptive incidents, allowing the organization to continue delivering critical activities at a pre-defined acceptable level.
- Define, approve, and implement procedures for responding to disruptive incidents.
- Measure and evaluate the effectiveness of BCPs periodically.
- Maintain and keep the BCPs and arrangements up-to-date.
- Implement, monitor, and report on the company's business continuity framework.
- Develop business systems and data backup and recovery schedules, plans, tests, and actions per the company's policy.
- Implement continuity and recovery plans for physical locations housing critical assets, including primary and recovery sites.
- Test documented continuity and recovery strategies and plans in line with policy requirements.
- Report on the company's business continuity plans, tests, initiatives, and actions in adherence to policy.
- Ensure compliance with Bank policies, procedures, regulatory standards, and guidelines.
- Enforce, incorporate, and comply with all necessary controls and related information security (EIS) policies, procedures, practices, training, reporting, personal due diligence, and vigilance within departmental/unit activities and operations.
Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- A tertiary-level qualification from a recognized institution.
Years & Nature of Experience
- 1 to 3 years of experience in the same or a similar domain is recommended.
- Experience should include accountability for the completion of assigned tasks and project work, with a developed level of competence to carry out work independently.
- Experience in disaster recovery planning and business continuity planning is preferred.
Technical Competencies
- Project Management
- Business Risk Assessment
- Crisis Management
Behavioral Competencies
- Proactive and self-directed
- Excellent communication skills
- Integrity and Agility
