Business Continuity Management Specialist

5 months ago


Midrand, South Africa DBSA Full time

To develop, maintain an effective and “ready for response” business continuity management
governance framework for the DBSA using the regulatory requirements and best practices. The
incumbent will be tasked with promoting awareness of the BCM function through facilitation of awareness workshops, and manage the lifecycle of the Business Continuity Management plan.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Develop, implement, manage, maintain and monitor an effective Enterprise Business Continuity Governance.

Framework consistently with the general regulatory requirements and industry best practices and standards.

Optimisation of existing programs and tools to improve management of risks and minimise the impact of disruptions on business as well as effectively continue or resume business following a disruption.

Continuity planning and event management, development and facilitation of DBSA wide event exercises. (BCM Scenario planning).

Liaise and give feedback to the key Stakeholders; Assign responsibilities to Stakeholders;
Expert knowledge and experience of how the all the functions integrate under the Enterprise Business Continuity Governance Framework.

Re-engineering the business continuity planning processes to meet the business requirements.

Development of a BCM Capability Tool that measures the maturity and progress of the framework in accordance with the business requirements.

Enabling the development and regular delivery of business continuity training, workshops and information sessions to ensure DBSA staff are prepared for service disruptions and can resume operations as quickly as possible.

Full coordination of the trained Business Continuity Teams in the response, recovery, restoration and resumption of all business operations in accordance with the business continuity plans, emergency response plans, crisis management plans and technology recovery plans;
Work closely with the Emergency Response Team to ensure on-going compliance in terms of trained members and preparedness;
Work closely with all other Business Continuity Management Team role players including Facilities, Security, Human Capital, etc.

Evaluate threats using the DBSA Risk Management Framework and methodology.

Develop and maintain the Business Continuity Portal and filing system in accordance with the National Archives and Records Management Standards.

Coordinate Business Continuity Plan Exercises in accordance with the annual exercise schedule;
Report the Business Continuity Status of Divisions / Business Units to Senior Management;
Assist the Division and Business Unit in enhancing, formalizing and standardizing the business continuity planning process, by identifying and selecting BC strategies per Division;
Development of an Incident Management Plan and Support Structure (Strategic, Tactical, Operational);
Maintain and Review all plans quarterly.

Ensure regular reporting to the relevant governance committees providing assurance.

To ensure regular comprehensive reporting to the relevant governance committees.

To provide guidance and support to management and function owners.

Ensure a disaster plan is in place to provide for the protection of vital information assets.

**Key Measures/KPI’s**

Able to design and implement effective and high quality governance frameworks in accordance with the relevant legislations, regulations, standards and best practise to ensure the risks are managed and compliance is adhered to.

Able to respond; Recover, Restore and Resume Business operations with mínimal impact to the business.

Ensure that the BCM programme continuously operates at a minimum of Best Practice Maturity.

Adequate levels of BCM capability are measured throughout the Bank.

**Expertise & Technical Competencies**:
A Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Qualification.

A membership of the Business Continuity Institute and/or an equivalent institution.

5 - 10 years of experience in Business Continuity Management Risk Management;
Adequate knowledge of Business Continuity Management and Resilience Frameworks.

Computer literacy and the basic understanding of business concepts.

Basic understanding of how information systems are designed & process data.

A good understanding how Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Crisis Management and Emergency Management are integrated under resilience SharePoint or similar system experience will be advantageous.

Experience in writing organisation wide strategies, policies, procedures and training materials will be advantageous.

Project Management experience is an advantage.

At least 6 years of experience in Risk Management preferably in a Financial Sector environment;
At least 10 years of experience in developing, managing, coordinating, implementation, testing and reviewing of full spectrum Business Continuity programmes, disaster recovery, emergency response etc.;
Expert knowledge of Business Continuity Management and resilience, Enterprise Risk Management and Operational Risk Managem



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