Digital Continuity Analyst

Aged-Care-Quality-and-Safety-Commission; Sydney; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15.4% superannuation

Salary range AUD 99,784–112,571 per AN

Job summary

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission is seeking a Digital Continuity Analyst to develop and maintain continuity plans for its Digital Group, ensuring resilience of systems and operations during disruptions.

You will lead risk assessments, incident response planning, and testing programmes, collaborating with governance and digital teams to strengthen preparedness and reporting.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in business continuity planning, disaster recovery, or risk management, with specific experience in digital or technology environments.
• Strong understanding of business continuity principles, methodologies, and best practices.
• Knowledge of digital technologies including cloud computing, virtualisation, networking, mobility and cyber.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to assess complex situations and develop effective solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and be able to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in business continuity planning tools and documentation software like SharePoint.

Responsibilities

• Continuity Planning: Working with the governance team to develop and maintain comprehensive continuity plans and procedures for digital systems, applications, and processes to minimise the impact of disruptions and ensure timely recovery in the event of disasters or emergencies.
• Risk Assessment and Analysis: In partnership with digital security and others conduct risk assessments and analysis of the digital environment and develop mitigation strategies to address them.
• Incident Response Planning: In partnership with the service desk develop and maintain major incident response plans and playbooks for digital events that could or do lead to disruption or are impacted by a disaster or unexpected event. Identify roles, responsibilities, and escalation procedures to facilitate prompt and effective response to these types of events to minimise downtime.
• Testing and Exercising: Coordinate and conduct regular testing be it tabletop exercises, or exercises with vendors and digital teams. Work with the governance team in preparing and testing any commission wide tests. And subsequently evaluate their effectiveness, identify gaps and recommend improvements to response capabilities.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain accurate documentation that meets governance, audit and compliance requirements. This would include business continuity plans, procedures, test results, incident reports, and lessons learned. Additionally providing regular reports to leadership on the status of digitals business continuity preparedness.
• Training and Awareness: Provide training and awareness programs for digital teams to enhance preparedness and response capabilities.
• Continuous Improvement: Monitor industry trends, emerging threats, and best practices to enhance business continuity strategies and plans

Skills

Business continuity planning

Disaster recovery

Risk management

Communication

Tools

SharePoint

Job description

• Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra

About the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission is the national regulator of Australian Government-funded aged care services. We protect and enhance the safety, health, wellbeing, and quality of life of people receiving aged care. This includes managing complaints and feedback about the care older people receive. We help build confidence and trust in aged care, by promoting best practice and a culture of safety and quality in the sector. We register providers and hold them to account if they don’t meet expected standards of care. We work with providers, workers, older people, their families, and supporters to make sure they understand and uphold older people’s rights. Meet some of our people and learn more about the Commission and our Regulatory Strategy on our website www.agedcarequality.gov.au

The Digital Performance Management & Resiliency Team contributes to that by monitoring, analysing, and optimising the performance of the Commission’s digital infrastructure and systems, by collecting and analysing performance data, identifying trends, and implementing strategies to improve efficiency, and reliability and end of life management.

About the Role

The Digital Continuity Analyst is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining continuity plans and strategies for the Digital Group, to ensure the resilience of digital systems, processes, and operations in the face of disruptions, disasters, or unexpected events. This role plays a critical role in safeguarding the organisations digital assets and maintaining continuity of digital services during adverse events.

Position Duties

• Continuity Planning: Working with the governance team to develop and maintain comprehensive continuity plans and procedures for digital systems, applications, and processes to minimise the impact of disruptions and ensure timely recovery in the event of disasters or emergencies.
• Risk Assessment and Analysis: In partnership with digital security and others conduct risk assessments and analysis of the digital environment and develop mitigation strategies to address them.
• Incident Response Planning: In partnership with the service desk develop and maintain major incident response plans and playbooks for digital events that could or do lead to disruption or are impacted by a disaster or unexpected event. Identify roles, responsibilities, and escalation procedures to facilitate prompt and effective response to these types of events to minimise downtime.
• Testing and Exercising: Coordinate and conduct regular testing be it tabletop exercises, or exercises with vendors and digital teams. Work with the governance team in preparing and testing any commission wide tests. And subsequently evaluate their effectiveness, identify gaps and recommend improvements to response capabilities.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain accurate documentation that meets governance, audit and compliance requirements. This would include business continuity plans, procedures, test results, incident reports, and lessons learned. Additionally providing regular reports to leadership on the status of digitals business continuity preparedness.
• Training and Awareness: Provide training and awareness programs for digital teams to enhance preparedness and response capabilities.
• Continuous Improvement: Monitor industry trends, emerging threats, and best practices to enhance business continuity strategies and plans

Position Eligibility Requirements (Selection Criteria)

• Proven experience in business continuity planning, disaster recovery, or risk management, with specific experience in digital or technology environments.
• Strong understanding of business continuity principles, methodologies, and best practices.
• Knowledge of digital technologies including cloud computing, virtualisation, networking, mobility and cyber.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to assess complex situations and develop effective solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and be able to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in business continuity planning tools and documentation software like SharePoint.

Position Notes

• Salary offered will be between $99,784 - $112,571 per annum depending on skills and experience. In addition, 15.4% superannuation will be paid.
• Only candidates who hold Australian citizenship can apply. Appointment is conditional on successfully completing a national police check. For more information, please visit www.apsc.gov.au/citizenship-aps
• Non-ongoing opportunity will be offered for an irregular/intermittent term. Opportunities will be offered for varying periods up to 12 months with the option to extend to a total of 24 months.
• Merit Pool established through this selection process may be used to fill this or future ongoing or non-ongoing vacancies.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Commission is committed to fostering a workplace with flexible work arrangements to support a diverse, respectful and inclusive culture for all staff. The Commission recognises the richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and is committed to the implementation of our Reconciliation Action Plan . The Commission values the unique knowledge and experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees which strengthens and supports our focus on protecting and enhancing the safety, health, wellbeing and quality of life of aged care consumers.

RecruitAbility

RecruitAbility applies to this vacancy. Under RecruitAbility you will be invited to participate in further assessment activity for the vacancy if you choose to apply under RecruitAbility; declare you have a disability; and meet the minimum requirements for the position. For more information, visit https://www.apsc.gov.au/recruitability.

Further information

For further information about the Quality Commission, office locations and other related resources, please visit https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au

For more information on the Australian Public Service, please visit http://www.apsc.gov.au/publications-and-media/current-publications/cracking-the-code/factsheet-4 and http://www.apsc.gov.au/publications-and-media/current-publications/cracking-the-code.

Please contact our recruitment team on [phone] or [e-mail] for assistance with accessing our website or with lodging your application.

Specific questions about the roles can be directed to Bhanu Sharma by emailing [e-mail] with Position title in the subject line.