Business Continuity Management Expert

Doha, Qatar

Jobs in Brief:
**General Description**
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Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures.**
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Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.**

**Skills and Competencies**
- Knowledge in the business continuity tools and methodologies.
- Working knowledge of business continuity management (ISO 22301).
- Knowledge of enterprise risk ma Expert knowledge of Risk Management standards and practices, e.g. ISO31000, COSO ERM.
- Knowledge in setting up disaster recovery sites.
- Knowledge in assessing the business critical processes and functions.
- Understand key risks and threats to the business continuity.
- Strong problem solving skills.
- Strong relationship management.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead the documentation, analysis, assessment and reporting of operational risks that could negatively impact the continuity of key businesses processes and functions and recommend mitigation plans, acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements to process owners and other relevant functions to maintain the availability and protection of the Authority business operations.
- Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
- Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.
- Maintain, review, and monitor the implementation of the Business Continuity processes, procedures, and functions in order to ensure that the necessary measures are in place and communicated to prevent any unexpected incident from disturbing the continuity of business operations and enable the business to respond in a timely and effective manner to any potential incident.
- Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.
- Lead the identification and establishment of disaster recovery site if required in coordination with IT, AA and other relevant functions in order to mitigate the risks in the event of a disaster or operational disruption.
- Maintain the operational effectiveness and readiness of the disaster recovery site through conducting regular inspections and ensuring that all information and data can be stored safely, so that the integrity and confidentiality of The Authority institutional memory is fully protected and easily restored in the event of disaster or incident.
- Ensure that that the recovery capabilities meet the business requirements through conducting regular testing in coordination with IT and AA and analyzing the future business needs, so that the decisions related to the design and procurement of the new recovery infrastructure are facilitated by key inputs and facts.
- Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
- Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry
- specific change initiatives.
- Promote the Authority-wide business continuity awareness and communicate BCP to all stakeholders to ensure that the organization is prepared to deal with incidents and recovery of business processes takes place as per the preset guidelines.
- Serve as an educational resource for management by keeping them informed on legislation, trends and other issues in the Business Continuity that might affect the bank’s effectiveness, responsibility to stakeholders and vulnerability to risk.
- Create scenarios to re-establish operations from various types of business disruptions.
- Conduct regular testing of BCP to validate that recovery capabilities meet business requirements.

**Internal Collaboration.**
- Lead the coordination of recovery arrangements (e.g., temporary facilities, emergency transportation) in case of disaster, jointly with HR, IT, AA, business lines and other relevant functions and in consultation with the Authority management, so that all business functions are aware of the necessary procures and actions to be taken in the event of an incident or disaster.
- Lead the coordination with Risk Management to ensure identified operational risks are adequately mitigated through BCP in case of an incident.

Qualification:
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or equivalent.

Experience**:
Minimum of 20 years postgraduate experience with experience in major infrastructure projects or programs, preference will be given to Roads, Aviation, Structures or Rail related experience, 10 years in similar position, and 5 years in Qatar and / or the Gulf region.

Solid knowledge of the Business Continuity and Risk Management