Resilience Risk & Recovery Lead

Resilience Risk & Recovery Lead

Salary: $86,250-$115,000

Benefits include: 

• Paid vacation, holiday and sick time
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• 401(k)/profit sharing 

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced professional to strengthen our enterprise-wide resilience and continuity initiatives. This role plays a key part in ensuring that critical business operations can continue or recover quickly following any disruption, through robust planning, coordination, and execution of continuity and technical recovery strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the delivery of the organization's Business Continuity and Resilience program across several simultaneous projects.
• Conduct and support resilience risk reviews, including data gathering, site analysis, prioritization of critical locations, and preparation of comprehensive summary reports.
• Develop and maintain technical recovery plans in collaboration with IT and operational teams, mapping dependencies, creating documentation, and facilitating approvals.
• Oversee the creation, testing, and regular updates of business continuity plans, working with stakeholders to gather inputs and validate scenarios through exercises and simulations.
• Lead or assist in after-action reviews, identifying lessons learned and integrating improvements into future planning.
• Partner with technology, risk, security, and operational leaders to ensure recovery strategies are aligned and consistently documented.
• Prepare and deliver program status updates, performance metrics, and recommendations to senior management.
• Ensure program practices align with ISO 22301 and recognized industry frameworks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Emergency Management, Information Systems, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, risk management, or a similar discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement continuity or recovery strategies, conduct risk assessments, and coordinate plan testing.
• Working knowledge of standards and best practices such as ISO 22301, NFPA 1600, or NIST SP 800-34.
• Familiarity with the full business continuity lifecycle, from business impact analysis to plan validation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office; exposure to ServiceNow or similar platforms is advantageous.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively across diverse teams.
• Strong organizational skills and capacity to manage multiple deliverables under tight timelines.
• Comfortable facilitating workshops and translating technical recovery details into clear, actionable business documentation.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and cloud-based recovery strategies is a plus.
• Experience working with configuration management databases (CMDBs) or technical environment diagrams is preferred.

Preferred Certifications

• CBCP (Certified Business Continuity Professional)
• ISO 22301 Lead Implementer
• MBCI (Member of the Business Continuity Institute)