Crisis Management and Business Continuity Specialist

Allied Universal; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 71,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, disability

401(k) plan

Paid holidays and vacation accrual

Job summary

Allied Universal seeks a Crisis Management and Business Continuity Specialist to help prepare, respond to, and recover from critical events. You will coordinate with enterprise leaders and security operations centers to track impact, response, and recovery across CMBC efforts.

Responsibilities include program management, risk assessment, business impact analysis, plan development, training drills, and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Security Management, Emergency Management, Fire Science or related field.
• Public sector training from DHS, FEMA, State Agency or equivalent.
• Experience with ISO crisis management and business continuity standards.
• Proven project management and cross-functional coordination abilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Program management: coordinate across the enterprise and regional teams.
• Risk assessment: identify threats and vulnerabilities to operations.
• Business impact analysis: classify critical processes for impact.
• Plan development: create response and recovery procedures.
• Training/exercising: develop scenario drills and evacuations.
• Compliance: ensure regulatory adherence and best practices.
• Software solutions management: administer CMBC/SOC tools and integrations.
• Data management: analyze data for improvements and gaps.

Skills

Project management

Team collaboration

Strong written and verbal skills

Data management

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Security Management, Emergency Management, Fire Science or related field

Tools

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

Everbridge

Fusion Risk Management

Ontic

Job description

Crisis Management and Business Continuity Specialist

Job Locations

US-IL-Moline | US-IL-Chicago | US-TX-Austin | US-NC-Cary | US-KS-Olathe | US-DC-Washington | US-GA-Augusta | US-IA-Waterloo | US-IA-Des Moines

Company Overview:

Elevate your security career with Allied Universal Enhanced Protection Services, a global leader in security and threat mitigation. We specialize in risk consulting, executive protection, intelligence, investigations, and emergency response, offering exciting career opportunities for professionals passionate about security and safety. Join our innovative team committed to excellence in the security industry and make a meaningful impact. Explore key roles, such as executive protection agents, intelligence analysts, armed security operatives, x-ray screeners, and security consultants.

Job Description

A Crisis Management and Business Continuity Specialist assists in implementing strategies and initiatives to ensure an organization can prepare for, respond to, or recover from a critical event. This includes communication and collaboration across the enterprise with different business leaders and key stakeholders.

Duties and responsibilities

• Program Management: Report to the Crisis Management and Business Continuity Manager to provide programmatic support and coordination across the enterprise. This includes working with local site level contacts globally within each of the company's geographic regions. Collaborate with the Security Operations Centers to develop Crisis Management and Business Continuity related notifications or intelligence used to track impact, response and recovery operations related CMBC specific work products.
• Risk Assessment: Identifying potential threats and vulnerabilities to the organization's operations such as weather and natural disasters, workplace violence and terrorism, power and utilities, geopolitical and technological.
• Business Impact Analysis: Classify critical business processes to determine operational, financial, regulatory and reputational impact.
• Plan Development: Creating comprehensive response and recovery plans to include procedures for maintaining life safety, protecting proprietary information and resuming critical functions and essential business operations.
• Training and Exercising: Development of event-based scenario training exercises as well as conducting evacuation, shelter in place and lockdown drills.
• Compliance: Interpreting and ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory standards, guidelines and industry best practices.
• Software Solutions Management: Support the management and administration of CMBC and SOC software solutions, to include permissions management, best practice sharing, system configuration improvements, integrations, and system set-up for regional requirements.
• Data Management: Utilize all data points associated with the various software solutions utilized in the department to assist in identifying inefficiencies, opportunities for improvement, or gaps in the current Security and CMBC environments.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Security Management, Emergency Management, Fire Science or related field
• Public sector training from DHS, FEMA, State Agency or other; private sector from ASIS, NFPA, DRII or other.
• Experience with the dissemination and application of ISO crisis management and business continuity related standards and guidelines.
• Project management experience and solid multitasking capability
• Program coordination and understanding of working in a decentralized environment
• Strong team collaboration and executing across multiple functional organizational areas
• Highly effective written and verbal communication skills
• Innovative thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Superior data entry and data management experience
• Familiarity with providing data, metrics and analytics
• Microsoft Office products including proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel and Power BI

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certification such as APP, AEM or ABCP
• Experience working in the manufacturing industry
• International or multinational experience
• Foreign language skills
• Familiarity with specific industry tools and applications such as Everbridge, Fusion Risk Management and Ontic

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Salary is $83,200 annually
• Medical, dental, vision, basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance
• Enrollment in our company's 401(k)plan
• Eight paid holidays annually, five sick days, and four personal days
• Vacation time offered at an accrual rate of 3.08 hours biweekly. Unused vacation is only paid out where required by law.

Allied Universal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or relationship/association with a protected veteran, or any other basis or characteristic protected by law. For more information: www.aus.com