Business Continuance Management #018

Delan Associates•Orlando, FL

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About The Position

Delan Associates, Inc. is seeking candidates for ongoing Business Continuance Management job opportunities in the Tallahassee, Florida area. The posting describes two roles in the Business Continuance Management job family. The Manager, Business Continuance is responsible for implementing and integrating enterprise risk-management procedures based on an understanding of key IT services that must be maintained to reduce financial loss and preserve critical customer-service capability. The role monitors and tests business-continuance procedures, ensures responses to system failures, and proactively develops processes to minimize or eliminate downtime. It also develops service-level risk-management agreements with business partners and vendors. This is a middle-level management role working under general direction of senior management, managing and mentoring supervisors, project leads, and/or technical staff, and leading multiple complex projects as a project leader and subject-matter expert. The posting also describes a Business Continuance Specialist role. The Specialist develops risk-management procedures, business-continuance scenarios, and contingency plans for central and distributed systems and networks to maintain operations during downtime or major disasters. The role identifies critical points of failure and recommends responses, develops and implements business-continuance policies, procedures, and test plans with IT operational and support groups, and participates in vendor evaluation and selection to ensure service-level agreements meet business-continuance planning requirements. This is an intermediate professional-level role involving contingency planning and analysis for medium- to highly complex assignments, work on multiple projects, and leadership of business-continuance planning components.

Requirements

For the Manager role: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
For the Manager role: At least 7 years of IT and business work experience, including managing large-scale IT infrastructure and support functions, risk management, and process re-engineering or improvement.
For the Manager role: Experience managing teams and projects.
For the Specialist role: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
For the Specialist role: At least 3 years of IT work experience in information-systems support, administration, and risk management.

Responsibilities

Implement and integrate enterprise risk-management procedures based on key IT services and continuity requirements.
Monitor and test business-continuance procedures.
Ensure responses to system failures and develop processes to minimize or eliminate downtime.
Develop service-level risk-management agreements with business partners and vendors.
Manage and mentor supervisors, project leads, and/or technical staff; lead multiple complex projects as a project leader and subject-matter expert.
Develop risk-management procedures, business-continuance scenarios, and contingency plans for central and distributed systems and networks.
Identify critical points of failure and make recommendations regarding them.
Develop and implement business-continuance policies, procedures, and test plans with IT operational and support groups.
Participate in vendor evaluation and selection to ensure service-level agreements meet business-continuance planning requirements.
Perform contingency planning and analysis for medium- to highly complex assignments and lead business-continuance planning components on multiple projects.