Description
Design, implement, and maintain business continuity and IT disaster recovery strategies and plans, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation. Plan, conduct, and debrief exercises to validate readiness, update procedures regularly, and coordinate continuity efforts during and after disruptions.
- • Write reports summarizing tests, goals, schedules, execution, results, and recommendations.
- • Maintain current application, infrastructure, and dependency maps for recovery planning.
- • Interpret regulations and codes to ensure continuity and disaster recovery compliance.
- • Gather and assess threat and hazard information to inform risk assessments.
- • Establish, maintain, and test call trees and notification workflows.
- • Recommend tools and solutions to mitigate continuity risks and support recovery.
- • Develop and manage business continuity and disaster recovery budgets.
- • Create and deliver training and awareness materials and sessions.
- • Stay current on continuity and disaster recovery standards, technologies, and practices.
- • Test and validate documented disaster recovery and continuity plans.
- • Review and update crisis management, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans.
- • Recommend and implement methods to monitor and resolve operational interruptions.
- • Prepare reports on resilience metrics, program performance, and plan maturity.
- • Perform business impact analyses to determine RTOs/RPOs and resource requirements.
- • Identify opportunities to improve resilience amid business or regulatory changes.
- • Develop disaster recovery plans for critical facilities and assets, including data centers.
- • Create scenarios and playbooks to reestablish operations after disruptions.
- • Lead integration and coordination of continuity, crisis management, and IT disaster recovery plans.
- • Develop emergency management plans for decision-making, communications, and process continuity.
- • Coordinate with security and cyber teams to integrate threat intelligence into planning.
- • Monitor trends indicating threats to people, assets, information, or infrastructure.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
