Business Resilience Intern

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

You will be a key member of the BCG Global Security team.

• Liaise with BCG offices within NAMR & worldwide to support the development & maintenance of their business resilience capabilities
• Support Global Security Director - Americas and other members of the Global Security Team (as needed) in developing and delivering the global resiliency program, as required, including:
• Provide support to offices or staff in crisis if required
• Assist with the creation and delivery of tabletop exercises for local Incident Response Teams (IRTs)
• Creation of media materials for business resiliency exercises
• Assist with awareness materials for workplace violence threats, reputational issues, and climate-related crises
• Draft After-Action Reports to assess local IRT response during exercises
  
  

Organize and manage an on-going programme of resilience plan reviews and incident response exercises

• Coordinate with regional GLB Security team members for resource planning purposes
• Keep team members accountable for their project deliverables and tasks, setting deadlines
  
  

Work closely with our business data analysts to ensure that programme-generated data is up to date and available for integration into Risk-wide dashboards

Conduct research using publicly available sources to gather information on persons of interest (POIs), locations, or emerging risks that inform crisis planning and decision-making.

Support the creation and updating of regional threat and risk assessments.

Assist with content organization and scheduling of BCG’s Global Resilience Forum (GRF), a network of office representatives aimed at sharing best practice in response to adverse events

• Ensure preparation for each GRF and open session is complete, such as sending invites, updating decks, sending out additional communications, allocating training facilitation responsibility etc
• Schedule, manage and drive open training sessions for incident response team members
  
  

Support members of the Global Security Team in other facets of the team’s work, as required, including: 

• Manage the monthly team pulse check survey, sending the survey, collating all responses and updating relevant PPT deck for senior management to review
• Support the Travel Security lead in managing the global Travel Security program, including: 
• Managing travel requests to higher-risk destinations 
• Monitoring changes in travel security environments that could affect BCG employees in-country 
• Creating and delivering pre-travel security briefings 
  
  

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Must be able to perform successfully in a fast-paced intellectually intense, service-oriented environment
• You’ll be open to learning, up for a challenge, welcoming and approachable
• You’ll be highly organised, responsive and a team player, comfortable thinking on your feet
• Handling challenging situations with poise, understanding and tact
  
  

What You'll Bring

• Fluent in English with strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent time management; must work well with deadlines
• Strong attention to detail
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, particularly across cultures
• Strong technical skills with at least intermediate PowerPoint & Excel skills
• Familiarity with project management tools such as Trello and OneNote would be advantageous
  
  

Additional info

*** For US locations only ***

In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach.

Compensation range for role: $21-$24 per hour

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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