Sr Business Continuity Manager

FHLBank Chicago; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative, in-office operating模式

Retirement program (401k and Pension)

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Lifestyle Spending Account

Competitive PTO plan

11 paid holidays per year

Job summary

FHLBank Chicago is seeking a Sr. Business Continuity Manager to lead the bank's BCM program, ensuring resiliency across critical operations.

You will coordinate across IT, risk, legal, and operations to prepare for and recover from disruptive events, guiding incident response and recovery efforts while maintaining regulatory alignment. You'll work in an in-office model with a collaborative culture, mentor teams, and drive ongoing training, testing, and plan enhancements to strengthen the bank's

Qualifications

• Experience leading BCM programs and coordinating across departments.
• Ability to develop and implement resiliency plans and tests.
• Strong documentation and training skills.
• Experience with risk assessment and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution and coordination of the BCM Program.
• Coordinate activities during disruptions and support Crisis Management Team activation.
• Maintain BCM documentation and ensure plans are current.
• Coordinate with IT disaster recovery and technology leaders.
• Partner with departments to keep plans aligned to critical processes.
• Oversee plan maintenance, quarterly certifications, annual reviews.
• Coordinate and support risk assessments and BIAs.
• Design BCM training and testing programs and tabletop exercises.
• Provide reporting to management and committees on program status.
• Monitor threats and events that may impact operations.
• Utilize BRM tools and platforms to administer activities and records.
• Maintain employee-facing BCM resources and guidance.

Skills

Business Continuity Management

Crisis Management

Disaster Recovery

Incident Leadership

Cross-functional Collaboration

Job description

At the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, employees come first - that's why we offer a highly competitive compensation and bonus package, and access to a comprehensive benefits program designed to meet the needs of our employees.

• Collaborative, in-office operating model

• Retirement program (401k and Pension)

• Medical, dental and vision insurance

• Lifestyle Spending Account

• Competitive PTO plan

11 paid holidays per year

Who we are

Our mission at FHLBank Chicago: To partner with our members in Illinois and Wisconsin to provide them competitively priced funding, a reasonable return on their investment, and support for their community investment activities.

Simply said, we're a bank for banks and other financial institutions, focused on being a strategic partner for our members and working together to reinvest in our communities, from urban centers to rural areas. Created by Congress in 1932, FHLBank Chicago is one of 11 Federal Home Loan Banks, government sponsored in support of mortgage lending and community investment.

What it's like to work here

At FHLBank Chicago, we bring people together. We are committed to a high performing, engaged workforce, and to supporting the communities we serve across Illinois and Wisconsin. Our Buddy Program pairs new hires with tenured employees to guide their onboarding. Our professional development and training opportunities through upskilling, mentorship programs, and tuition reimbursement allow employees to grow their career with us. Our collaborative, in-office operating model brings teams together to foster innovation, connection, and shared success. To support balance and flexibility, employees are provided with an allocation of remote days to use as needed throughout the year.

What you'll do

The Sr. Business Continuity Manager executes, coordinates, and continuously improves the Bank's Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program. This role partners across the Bank to ensure resiliency plans, crisismanagement guidance, disaster recovery coordination, training, testing, communications, and related documentation are current, cohesive, and executable. The Sr. Business Continuity Manager supports the Bank's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptive events whilemaintainingsafe and soundoperations, minimizing member disruption, and aligning the BCM Program to the Bank's risk appetite and operating environment.

How you'll make an impact

• Strengthen the Bank's resilience by ensuring critical operations can continue and recover quickly during disruptions, minimizing risk and member impact.

• Drive enterprise-wide preparedness by partnering across departments to develop, test, and continuously improve business continuity and crisis management capabilities.

• Provide leadership during incidents and emerging threats, enabling informed decision-making, coordinated response efforts, and continuous improvement of the Bank's resiliency posture.

What you can expect

• Lead day-to-day execution and coordination of the BCM Program, including implementation of the Business Continuity Cycle and alignment of resiliency activities to Bank objectives and risk appetite.

• Coordinate activities during disruptions, including stakeholder mobilization, status updates, resource prioritization, and support for Crisis Management Team activation and response efforts. Weekends and after-hours may be required in the management of incidents and tests.

• Maintain and enhance business continuity, crisis management, disaster recovery coordination, and related BCM documentation so plans remain achievable, consistent, complete, and responsive to the Bank's needs.

• Coordinate with IT Disaster Recovery personnel and technology leaders to ensure business continuity expectations, application dependencies, recovery objectives, and disaster recovery exercise outcomes are understood and incorporated into BRM planning and meet the Bank's risk appetite.

• Partner with departments, Department Managers, Information Technology, Communications, Legal, Risk, and other stakeholders to keep business continuity plans current and aligned to critical business processes.

• Oversee plan maintenance routines, including quarterly certifications, annual reviews, documentation refreshes, and updates following significant changes to Bank products, systems, processes, staffing, or operating environment.

• Coordinate and support risk assessments, Business Impact Analyses (BIA), dependency mapping, mitigation planning, and resiliency strategy development across Bank functions.

• Design, coordinate, and facilitate BCM training and testing, including but not limited to tabletop exercises, new hire orientation training, emergency notification tests, continuity tests, techology asset resiliency and recovery activities, and post-test/action item tracking.

• Provide regular reporting and updates on BCM Program activities, testing results, plan readiness, open issues, lessons learned, and emerging risks to management, the Executive Team, various operational and risk committees, and other stakeholders as required.

• Monitor threats and events that may impact the Bank's ability to operate, including system loss, location loss, people loss/unavailability, severe weather, broader operational disruptions, and other evolving threat scenarios.

• Use BRM tools and platforms such as emergency notification systems, AI tools (Co-Pilot), Microsoft M365, Riskonnect or similar systems to administer program activities, maintain records, support communications, and track issues or remediation items.

• Serve as a key liaison with appropriate city, county, state, federal, industry, and emergency management organizations involved in threat monitoring, disaster planning, and recovery coordination.

• Maintain employee-facing BCM resources and guidance