Business Continuity & Resilience Coordinator

University of Texas at San Antonio; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Texas at San Antonio is seeking a Business Continuity Coordinator to lead the university's continuity program across academic, research, healthcare, and hospital operations. You will drive BIAs, exercises, governance, and IT disaster recovery planning while advising stakeholders and ensuring alignment with regulatory standards.

On campus role with potential for collaboration across departments, and responsibility for continuous improvement, training, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field with at least 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in business continuity, emergency management, project management, IT or healthcare preparedness.
• Ability to comply with security and integrity requirements as needed.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and administer the university's business continuity program and governance.
• Maintain BC planning software, templates, dashboards, and documentation systems.
• Lead BIAs, dependency mapping, and recovery objective identification.
• Develop and update continuity frameworks, guidance, and design standards.
• Provide consultation, training, and technical assistance to departments.
• Coordinate planning activities and ensure plans stay current with institutional requirements.
• Identify recovery strategies, workarounds, and resource needs for essential functions.
• Plan and evaluate BC exercises to improve readiness and capabilities.
• Collaborate with IT, facilities, research, healthcare, and safety stakeholders.
• Collect and present metrics to support leadership decisions.
• Support accreditation and regulatory compliance activities and reviews.
• Participate in emergency activations and post-incident recovery efforts as assigned.
• Develop after-action reports and recommendations for improvement.

Skills

BCM

BIA

IT Disaster Recovery

Regulatory Compliance

Stakeholder Engagement

Project Management

Change Management

Policy Development

KPI Monitoring

Technical Writing

Microsoft 365

NIMS/ICS Knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Master's degree in related field (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

The University of Texas at San Antonio is seeking a Business Continuity Coordinator to lead the university's continuity program across academic, research, healthcare, and hospital operations. You will drive BIAs, exercises, governance, and IT disaster recovery planning while advising stakeholders and ensuring alignment with regulatory standards.

On campus role with potential for collaboration across departments, and responsibility for continuous improvement, training, and documentation.