Crisis Management & Continuity Lead

Allied Universal; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 71,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Eight holidays annually

5 sick days

4 personal days

Job summary

Allied Universal is seeking a Crisis Management and Business Continuity Specialist to help prepare for, respond to, and recover from critical events. The role collaborates with site teams and regional leaders to implement CMBC strategies and ensure rapid, safe operations during incidents.

Key responsibilities include risk assessment, business impact analysis, plan development, training and exercising, and ensuring 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 private sector from ASIS, NFPA, DRII.
• 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

Responsibilities

• Program Management: Report to the Crisis Management and Business Continuity Manager to provide programmatic support and coordination across the enterprise.
• 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.

Skills

Project management

ISO standards

Data management

Communication skills

Education

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

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Everbridge

Fusion Risk Management

Ontic

Job description

Allied Universal is seeking a Crisis Management and Business Continuity Specialist to help prepare for, respond to, and recover from critical events. The role collaborates with site teams and regional leaders to implement CMBC strategies and ensure rapid, safe operations during incidents.

Key responsibilities include risk assessment, business impact analysis, plan development, training and exercising, and ensuring regulatory compliance.