Business Continuity Management Specialist

Purpose: The Business Continuity Management (BCM) Specialist is responsible for developing and implementing the organization's business continuity and crisis management framework. This role ensures resilience by identifying risks conducting business impact analyses maintaining business continuity plans coordinating drills and exercises and ensuring compliance with international standards such as ISO 22301.

Job Summary: The BCM Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring operational continuity by developing maintaining and testing business continuity plans (BCPs) and crisis response strategies. This role involves conducting business impact analyses coordinating response teams training employees on resilience strategies and ensuring regulatory compliance. The BCM Specialist collaborates with stakeholders across departments to ensure seamless recovery from potential disruptions

Main Responsibilities & Task

• Develop update and maintain Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) across all departments ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
• Establish BCM governance structures assigning ownership of BCPs at the departmental level.
• Ensure periodic BCP validation and testing to maintain operational resilience.
• Conduct BIAs to identify critical processes dependencies and recovery priorities across business functions.
• Assess business continuity risks ensuring mitigation strategies align with the organization's risk appetite.
• Update the BCM risk register based on emerging threats and lessons learned from past disruptions.
• Establish a Crisis Management Framework defining response protocols escalation procedures and decisionmaking hierarchies.
• Coordinate crisis response teams and facilitate realtime incident management to minimize operational disruption.
• Implement an Emergency Communication Plan ensuring seamless coordination with internal and external stakeholders during incidents.
• Plan and conduct regular BCM drills and scenariobased exercises testing the organization's ability to respond to disruptions.
• Collaborate with MOI Civil Defense and regulatory authorities on joint business continuity and emergency response exercises.
• Assess and ensure that key suppliers and external partners have adequate BCM measures in place.
• Conduct thirdparty BCM assessments integrating vendor resilience into the overall BCM strategy.
• Monitor business continuity risks in the supply chain ensuring alternative recovery solutions are in place.
• Collaborate with IT & Cybersecurity teams to ensure technology resilience including IT disaster recovery planning.
• Ensure that critical IT applications and infrastructure are integrated into the business continuity framework.
• Develop cyber incident response strategies ensuring minimal disruption from cyber threats or system failures.
• Conduct detailed postincident evaluations after disruptions identifying gaps and areas for improvement.
• Implement a structured lessonslearned framework ensuring continuous enhancement of BCM strategies.
• Maintain a BCM incident log tracking root causes response effectiveness and corrective actions.
• Ensure full alignment of BCM strategies with regulatory bodies such as Civil Defense MOI and other industry regulators.
• Stay updated with local and international BCM regulatory requirements ensuring compliance at all levels.
• Oversee BCM reporting and audit readiness for external assessments and regulatory submissions.
• Align BCM strategies with corporate governance frameworks ensuring adherence with board directives.
• Establish BCM performance metrics and reporting for governance committees.
• Ensure clear documentation and policy enforcement for all BCM activities.
• Implement and monitor the organization BCM framework ensuring alignment with the organization’s risk governance structure.
• Define BCM policies standards and guidelines ensuring uniform implementation across all business units.
• Establish accountability frameworks for BCM roles within the organization.
• Support the Board Audit Committee (BAC) and Executive Committee (BEC) by providing insights on business resilience and continuity risks.
• Develop executivelevel BCM reports and dashboards ensuring datadriven decisionmaking.
• Ensure boardlevel awareness of emerging BCM risks and their potential impact on business operations.
• Ensure BCM strategies safeguard the organization business continuity interests protecting critical operations and key investments.
• Align BCM strategies with the organization’s risk appetite ensuring proactive resilience measures.
• Conduct impact assessments for strategic projects ensuring that business continuity is considered in new initiatives.
• Work with Internal Audit Assurance functions and Operational Management to ensure a unified approach to resilience and risk assurance.
• Ensure BCM risk management controls are independently validated and tested.
• Participate in subcommittee reviews (if any required) ensuring BCM effectiveness and continuous improvement.
• Job descriptions are written to reflect major accountabilities and will not describe all the tasks which may be performed by an individual. The incumbent shall perform any additional related duties assigned by the respective line manager to meet operational requirement
• The incumbent shall ensure the highest standards are followed to safeguard the sensitive and confidential data of the organization

Minimum Required Qualifications Certificates & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Business Risk Management IT or a related field
• Minimum 45 years of experience in business continuity risk management or disaster recovery either with Big 4 consulting companies or 78 years of experience in a similar role or. Strong experience in ISO 22301 implementation and BCM frameworks
• Any relevant certification or training such as:Business Continuity (e.g. CBCP ISO 22301 Lead Implementer BCI Certification)
• Business Continuity Planning Project Management Strong analytical problemsolving communication and stakeholder management skills