Crisis Management and Business Continuity Specialist

Allied Universal • Moline, IL

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About The Position

A Crisis Management and Business Continuity Specialist assists in implementing strategies and initiatives to ensure an organization can prepare for, respond to, or recover from a critical event. This included communication and collaboration across the enterprise with different business leaders and key stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, Security Management, Emergency Management, Fire Science or related field
• Public sector training from DHS, FEMA, State Agency or other; private sector from ASIS, NFPA, DRII or other.
• Experience with the dissemination and application of ISO crisis management and business continuity related standards and guidelines.
• Project management experience and solid multitasking capability
• Program coordination and understanding of working in a decentralized environment
• Strong team collaboration and executing across multiple functional organizational areas
• Highly effective written and verbal communication skills
• Innovative thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Superior data entry and data management experience
• Familiarity with providing data, metrics and analytics
• Microsoft Office products including proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel and Power BI

Nice To Haves

• Professional certification such as APP, AEM or ABCP
• Experience working in the manufacturing industry
• International or multinational experience
• Foreign language skills
• Familiarity with specific industry tools and applications such as Everbridge, Fusion Risk Management and Ontic

Responsibilities

• Report to the Crisis Management and Business Continuity Manager to provide programmatic support and coordination across the enterprise. This includes working with local site level contacts globally within each of the company’s geographic regions.
• Collaborate with the Security Operations Centers to develop Crisis Management and Business Continuity related notifications or intelligence used to track impact, response and recovery operations related CMBC specific work products.
• Identifying potential threats and vulnerabilities to the organization's operations such as weather and natural disasters, workplace violence and terrorism, power and utilities, geopolitical and technological.
• Classify critical business processes to determine operational, financial, regulatory and reputational impact.
• Creating comprehensive response and recovery plans to include procedures for maintaining life safety, protecting proprietary information and resuming critical functions and essential business operations.
• Development of event-based scenario training exercises as well as conducting evacuation, shelter in place and lockdown drills.
• Interpreting and ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory standards, guidelines and industry best practices.
• Support the management and administration of CMBC and SOC software solutions, to include permissions management, best practice sharing, system configuration improvements, integrations, and system set-up for regional requirements
• Utilize all data points associated with the various software solutions utilized in the department to assist in identifying inefficiencies, opportunities for improvement, or gaps in the current Security and CMBC environments

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance
• Enrollment in our company’s 401(k)plan
• Eight paid holidays annually, five sick days, and four personal days
• Vacation time offered at an accrual rate of 3.08 hours biweekly. Unused vacation is only paid out where required by law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level