About the Role
The company Advisory Service Line is a leader in managing large-scale developments across prestigious projects, including giga projects, municipalities, and significant urban ventures. This role will play a key part in advancing these visionary projects by focusing on strategic and technical elements essential for successful developments.
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Responsibilities
- Define risk criteria, scoring methodology, and evaluation approach, aligned with the client's existing enterprise risk framework.
- Build credible failure scenarios across power distribution, potable water, sewerage, stormwater, street lighting, road networks, and fire and life safety systems.
- Assess likelihood, consequence, and the effectiveness of existing controls and set inherent and residual risk ratings.
- Map interdependencies between utility systems and identify single points of failure across the network.
- Lead business impact analysis to establish minimum service levels, maximum tolerable outage, and recovery time objectives for each critical service.
- Prepare heat maps, impact summaries, and decision materials; facilitate risk appetite and tolerance agreement with executive stakeholders.
- Develop risk treatment options, set target residual risk levels, and agree on them through structured workshops.
- Conduct quantitative risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulation to model cost and schedule exposure, test mitigation options, and produce confidence-based outputs for management decisions.
- Set the distribution assumptions, correlation, and iteration basis behind each simulation and defend them to client stakeholders.
- Present probabilistic results as S-curves, tornado diagrams, and contingency recommendations at defined confidence levels, typically P50 and P80.
- Author the business continuity plan covering governance, activation triggers, escalation pathways, role profiles, resource requirements, and communication flow.
- Write scenario-based operational playbooks with initial response, stabilization, and recovery steps, timelines, task owners, and interdependency notes.
- Define resource requirements, including vendor and contractor call-out arrangements, temporary service provision, and logistics.
- Support the integration of continuity tasks into client SOPs, service level agreements, and vendor obligations.
- Design training needs analysis and training modules, deliver role-based training, and oversee emergency drills.
- Produce drill reports and lessons learned reports; refine the plan based on findings.
- Provide peer review on risk outputs produced by the wider team and confirm risk ratings are applied consistently across sites.
- Lead knowledge transfer and handover of the continuity framework to client operational teams.
- Contribute to bids, methodology development, and technical proposals within the risk and continuity service line.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline. A postgraduate qualification in risk management is an advantage.
- Minimum 15 years in risk management, including business continuity delivery on infrastructure, utility, or industrial portfolios.
- Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor certification in ISO 22301, along with an ISO 31000 risk management credential.
- PMI-RMP, IRM, or an equivalent risk credential is an advantage.
- Experience running Monte Carlo simulations for quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis, using @RISK, Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran Risk, Acumen Risk, or equivalent is preferred but not essential.
- Ability to translate probabilistic output into actionable contingency and decision recommendations for non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience facilitating risk appetite and business impact workshops at the executive level.
- Evidence of continuity plans produced that were adopted operationally, with proof of drills conducted against them.
- Understanding of utility interdependencies, such as power to pumping, power to lighting networks, and water supply to fire systems.
- Fluency in English and Arabic is required.
Contract Type
Region
- Middle East and South Asia
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