About This Career

Develops, maintains, or implements business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Plans, conducts, and debriefs regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Acts as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.

This career is part of the Business Management and Administration cluster Operations Management pathway.

A person in this career:

• Develops emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
• Develops disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.
• Tests documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
• Analyzes impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
• Writes reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Creates scenarios to reestablish operations from various types of business disruptions.
• Reviews existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
• Establishes, maintains, or tests call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
• Conducts or oversees contingency plan integration and operation.
• Identifies opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

People who do this job report that:

• You would sit most of the time. There's some walking and standing. You may have to lift and carry things like books, papers or tools weighing 10 lbs. or less.
• Work in this occupation requires being inside most of the time
• Work in this occupation involves sitting more than one-third of the time

Working in this career involves (physical activities):

• Seeing clearly up close
• Speaking clearly enough to be able to be understood by others
• Identifying and understanding the speech of another person

Work Hours and Travel

• Regular working hours and limited travel