Crisis Management and Business Continuity Specialist

Allied Universal; Waterloo (IA); Vor Ort; USD 71.000 - 96.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) enrollment

Paid holidays

Vacation accrual

Zusammenfassung

Allied Universal is seeking a Crisis Management and Business Continuity Specialist in the Waterloo region. The role supports program management, risk assessment, and plan development to prepare for and recover from critical events.

You will coordinate with global sites, work with SOC, and develop training exercises while ensuring regulatory compliance and data-driven improvements across CMBC operations.

Qualifikationen

• 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 ISO crisis management and business continuity standards and guidelines.
• Project management experience and solid multitasking capability.
• Program coordination and understanding of decentralized environments.
• Strong team collaboration and execution across multiple functional areas.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills.
• Innovative thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Data entry and data management experience; familiarity with data, metrics and analytics.
• Microsoft Office proficiency including PowerPoint, Excel and Power BI.

Aufgaben

• Report to the Crisis Management and Business Continuity Manager for programmatic support.
• Collaborate with Security Operations Centers to develop CMBC notifications and intelligence.
• Identify threats and vulnerabilities to operations (weather, violence, terrorism, outages).
• Classify critical processes to assess operational and financial impact.
• Create response and recovery plans for life safety and resumption of operations.
• Develop event-based training exercises and evacuation drills.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and industry best practices.
• Support CMBC and SOC software management, including configuration and integrations.
• Analyze data to identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.

Kenntnisse

Project management

Program coordination

Team collaboration

Written and verbal communication

Data analytics

Data entry

Analytical problem solving

Ausbildung

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

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Power BI

Jobbeschreibung

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