SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union is dedicated to providing exceptional service and is looking for a Business Continuity Specialist. This role involves supporting the development and maintenance of business continuity and disaster recovery programs, conducting risk assessments, and collaborating with various teams to ensure organizational resilience during adverse conditions.
Responsibilities
- Supports the development, implementation, and maintenance of the Credit Union's organizational business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) management programs and plans by gathering, analyzing, and presenting data to mitigate the impact on business operations of potential adverse conditions due to natural or structural disasters, acts of terror/war, cyber-attacks, etc
- Support risk assessments, Business Impact Analysis, and reporting
- Work with business and IT technical staff to develop contingencies and test recovery plans
- Supports business continuity activities and disaster recovery planning in support of the business continuity program and organizational priorities
- Provides input into the development of business continuity program policies, standards, and guidelines
- Evaluates data and reports to provide input to risk assessments and reviews continuity controls
- Collects all data to support business units on the Business Impact Analysis and related enterprise risk assessments
- Provides data and risk analysis and reporting support
- Provides support for the resolution of enterprise recovery issues identified during testing and actual events
- Supports business units in the review, update, and maintenance of all organizational plans under the business continuity program
- Assists business units with development of alternate procedures to ensure minimum service level objectives are met during a disruption
- Reviews business continuity training and awareness campaign materials for alignment of the Business Continuity Plan and organizational plans, policies and procedures
- Participates and supports all recovery drills and exercises involving business processes, dependent applications and workaround strategies that support their plans
- Responsible for accurate documentation that meets regulatory standards
- Supports management and technical staff to ensure testing and documentation is complete and meets regulatory standards
- Collects data and provides recommendations on the status of institution-wide disaster recovery management programs, including maturity models, methodologies, sourcing strategies, plans, metrics, testing contingency capabilities, reporting, and scorecards for all components of the programs
- Supports the third-party disaster recovery testing and reporting
- Provides support for the resolution of enterprise recovery issues identified during testing and actual events
- Researches data and provides analytical support for business continuity, disaster recovery, and risk assessment reports for management and regulators
- Supports testing of various communication methods, such as emergency notification tool and call trees to ensure appropriate communications during unforeseen events
- Maintains business continuity automation tools
- Understands the Credit Union environment, business operations, products and services, and critical systems
- Understands regulatory requirements and standards including: NCUA Part 748, Part 749 and related appendices, FFIEC IT Examination, ISO 22301 and ISO 27001
- Assists in the response and recovery efforts, in the event of a crisis
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Complies with regulatory compliance and assigned training requirements including but not limited to BSA regulations corresponding to their specific job duties
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Business Management or equivalent work related experience required
- 1-3 years experience in business continuity planning, Emergency Preparedness, disaster recovery planning, testing or training, emergency management or incident response required
- 1-3 years experience in information technology, project management, business analysis, risk controls, governance or related discipline experience required
- Strong verbal, written and presentation skills. Required
- Proficient in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Required
- ITIL Foundations preferred
- Certified Organizational Resilience Associate (CORA) or equivalent preferred
- Experience with RSA Archer Preferred
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