Business Resilience Specialist

Control Risks; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) retirement

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Control Risks is seeking an embedded Business Resilience Specialist to support a Fortune 50 technology client and strengthen enterprise-wide preparedness.

You will drive standards and methodology across crisis leadership teams, delivering cross-program initiatives spanning Business Continuity, Employee Readiness, and Crisis Management to move senior stakeholders from strategy to execution—measurably improving resilience at both the function and product level.

Qualifications

• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A professional with a proven history of working in a fast-paced environment; comfortable with ambiguity and shifting goals.
• 2-5 years of work experience in an operation, project management, consulting, or equivalent environment.
• 1+ years of work experience in the Risk and Resilience space, crisis management preferred.
• Experience helping to mature a global resiliency program.
• Autonomy to translate strategic direction into actionable plans with minimal guidance.
• Experience being a connector across teams and managing projects against KPIs through to completion.
• Experience developing and documenting procedures and workflows.
• Organizational skills with attention to detail and a commitment to follow-up

Responsibilities

• Organize activities supporting crisis and resiliency activities relating to special projects and business units.
• Drive consistent methodology, approach, and standards for planning, training, and exercising across crisis leadership teams.
• Undertake projects addressing aspects of the crisis program—strategy, governance, response structures, and supporting training for executives.
• Work across resilience programs including Business Continuity, Employee Readiness, and Crisis Management to develop major projects on emerging risks.
• Collaborate with HR, Legal, and product teams to bolster function- and product-level resiliency planning.
• Drive global initiatives that integrate lessons from exercises and crises.
• Collaborate with partners to build program awareness, improve user experience, and advance preparedness capabilities.
• Innovate new tools to accelerate the implementation of resiliency program management plans and capabilities.

Skills

Client-facing

Written communication

Verbal communication

Adaptability

Risk & resilience

Global resiliency

Autonomy

Project management

Process documentation

Attention to detail

Job description

We're seeking an embedded Business Resilience Specialist to support a Fortune 50 technology client and strengthen enterprise-wide preparedness. In this role, you'll drive standards and methodology across crisis leadership teams, deliver cross-program initiatives spanning Business Continuity, Employee Readiness, and Crisis Management, and help senior stakeholders move from strategy to execution—measurably improving resilience at both the function and product level.

• Organize activities supporting crisis and resiliency activities relating to supporting special projects and businessunits
• Drive consistentmethodology, approach, and standards for planning, training, and exercising across crisis leadership teams.
• Undertake projects/initiatives that address various aspects of the crisis program - overall strategy, governance, response structures,andsupport training and development needs of seniorexecutives.
• Work across different resilience programs including Business Continuity, Employee Readiness, and Crisis Management to help develop and deliver major projects relating to emerging risks, such as, but not limited to contentious elections.
• Work with team leads intheof strategies that bolster function-level (such as HR, Legal, etc.) and product-level resiliency planning.
• Drive the initiation of global initiatives that integrate lessons gleaned from both exercises and actual crises.
• Collaborate successfully with partners across the ecosystem to build program awareness, enhancethe userexperience, and drive the further improvement of preparednesscapabilities.
• Innovate new tools toexpeditethe implementation of new resiliency program management plans and capabilities.

We're seeking an embedded Business Resilience Specialist to support a Fortune 50 technology client and strengthen enterprise-wide preparedness. In this role, you'll drive standards and methodology across crisis leadership teams, deliver cross-program initiatives spanning Business Continuity, Employee Readiness, and Crisis Management, and help senior stakeholders move from strategy to execution—measurably improving resilience at both the function and product level.

• Organize activities supporting crisis and resiliency activities relating to supporting special projects and businessunits
• Drive consistentmethodology, approach, and standards for planning, training, and exercising across crisis leadership teams.
• Undertake projects/initiatives that address various aspects of the crisis program - overall strategy, governance, response structures,andsupport training and development needs of seniorexecutives.
• Work across different resilience programs including Business Continuity, Employee Readiness, and Crisis Management to help develop and deliver major projects relating to emerging risks, such as, but not limited to contentious elections.
• Work with team leads intheof strategies that bolster function-level (such as HR, Legal, etc.) and product-level resiliency planning.
• Drive the initiation of global initiatives that integrate lessons gleaned from both exercises and actual crises.
• Collaborate successfully with partners across the ecosystem to build program awareness, enhancethe userexperience, and drive the further improvement of preparednesscapabilities.
• Innovate new tools toexpeditethe implementation of new resiliency program management plans and capabilities.

Requirements

• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A professional with a proven history of working in a fast-paced environment;demonstratedcomfort with ambiguity and shifting goals.
• 2-5 years of work experience in an operation, project management, consulting, or equivalent environment.
• 1+ years of work experience in the Risk and Resilience space, crisis management preferred.
• Experience helping to mature a global resiliency program.
• Autonomy to translate strategic direction into actionable plans with minimal guidance.
• Experience being a connector across teams and managing projects against KPIsthrough tocompletion.
• Experience developing and documenting procedures and workflows.
• Organizational skills with attention to detail and a commitment to follow-up

Benefits

• Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarized in the full job offer.
• We operate a discretionary bonus scheme that incentivizes, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance.
• Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasize the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.
• Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarized in the full job offer.
• Medical Benefits, Prescription Benefits, FSA, Dental Benefits, Vision Benefits, Life and AD&D, Voluntary Life and AD&D, Disability Benefits, Voluntary Benefits, 401 (K) Retirement, Nationwide Pet Insurance, Employee Assistance Program.
• As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.

The base salary range for this position is $95000-$105000 per year. Exact compensation offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Control Risks is committed to a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.

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