IT Business Continuity Specialist - UAE NATIONAL

1. Develop and Implement Business Continuity Plans (BCPs):
Create, maintain, and update comprehensive BCPs that outline procedures for various disruptive scenarios, ensuring alignment with the clients' objectives and regulatory requirements.

2. Conduct Business Impact Analysis (BIA):
Perform BIA to assess and prioritize potential impacts of disruptions on critical business functions, processes, and assets. Identify dependencies, interdependencies, and critical timelines to support informed decision-making in BCP development. Identify the resources needed.

3. Risk Assessment and Management:
Identify potential threats and vulnerabilities through risk assessments. Develop and implement strategies to mitigate risks to business operations identified through BIA and risk assessments.

4. Training and Preparedness:
Educate and train employees on business continuity policies, procedures, and their roles during disruptions. Coordinate and conduct drills and exercises to test BCP effectiveness and enhance organizational readiness.

5. Incident Response and Crisis Management:
Coordinate response efforts during emergencies, crises, or disruptions. Implement and oversee BCP activation and recovery processes as per established protocols.

6. Monitoring and Continuous Improvement:
Monitor changes in the organizational environment and update BCPs and BIAs accordingly. Conduct post-incident reviews and lessons learned sessions to identify improvement opportunities and implement corrective actions.

7. Compliance and Reporting:
Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards related to business continuity and disaster recovery. Prepare and present reports on business continuity metrics, preparedness levels, and incident response effectiveness.

Requirements

Skills:

• Risk Management: Experience in performing BIA to assess and prioritize the impacts of disruptions on critical business functions.
• Crisis Management: Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks to business operations.
• Communication: Proficiency in developing, implementing, and maintaining comprehensive BCPs based on BIA findings.
• Analytical Thinking: Experience in coordinating and managing responses to emergencies and disruptions.

Communication:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to liaise with employees during incidents and reporting.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate scenarios, assess impacts, and make data-driven decisions.
• Ability to prioritize a wide range of workloads with critical deadlines.
• Availability outside of working hours to resolve emergency issues promptly.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Continuity, Crisis Management, or relevant degree.
• Relevant certifications such as CBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Auditor.

Main tasks:

1. Follow up on official correspondence and communications received by the Executive Director’s Office, which include letters and e-mails, to ensure that the necessary measures are taken.
2. Preserving correspondence and official documents within an integrated document preservation system.
3. Follow up on the status of messages received from all sectors and departments of the Authority.
4. Preparing for the evaluation of the Office of the Executive Director.
5. Covering the duties of the Executive Director’s secretary during his vacation.
6. Preparing monthly reports related to correspondence to the Executive Director.
7. Managing incoming/outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Executive Director through the Tarasul system.
8. Follow up coordination with the office of the Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors to ensure that all directives and instructions of the Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors are implemented.
9. Ensuring that correspondences that do not have a specific end date are not delayed for more than two months.
10. Ensuring that all requirements are provided on time and that their completion is not delayed.
11. Receiving messages that require the approval of the Executive Director and sending them to the concerned authority upon approval.
12. Periodic follow-up and updating of the shared file.
13. Following up on matters related to the Office of the Executive Director and preparing and implementing the tasks assigned to me, including minutes of meetings and PowerPoint presentations.

Education:
Bachelors/Masters in Technology