Resiliency, Security and Safety Director

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The Resiliency, Security and Safety Director manages all designated elements of Resiliency, Security and Safety. The Director provides professional, managerial skills related to business continuity planning, crisis management, and project management. The Director supports the Line of Business (LOB) partners in developing business continuity and disaster recovery plans, conducts a business impact analysis, a business interruption risk assessment, and recovery gap analysis, and produces executive‑level summaries and recommendations for remediation.

The Director capitalizes on business opportunities to refine production processes and mitigate exposure during disruptions of service without adversely affecting day‑to‑day operations. The Director has regular interaction with Executive Management and the Board of Directors and indirectly facilitates others in the development of continuity and recovery documentation across the Bank. This position holds a high level of responsibility for business continuity and disaster recovery for the Bank.

• Provide leadership and recommendations in managing the work and activities involved in conducting and planning efforts to improve protection, resiliency, and reliability.
• Manage the maintenance and testing of IT Disaster Recovery Plans and coordinate plan objectives with the continuity plans from the business units.
• Responsible for high‑level business continuity and disaster recovery strategies essential to the sound business operations of the bank.
• Manage and coordinate the development and assessment of recovery strategies including backup procedures, data and file system replication, archiving, caching, record retention, system restoration procedures, and high availability solutions.
• Establish scope and objectives of Disaster Recovery tests at off‑site locations, schedule test timing and resources accordingly, and coordinate and evaluate the DR testing.
• Work closely with IT teams to align business continuity strategy with the IT Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) and stay current on planned infrastructure and application changes to ensure timely and accurate updates to the DRP.
• Hold specialized knowledge and certifications such as CISSP, CBCP, PMP, ITIL, or CRISC.
• Have a solid understanding of business processes analysis and improvement strategies as well as technology and data dependencies within the IT infrastructure and how they affect recovery strategies.
• Act as a bridge between IT and business process owners.
• Conduct business impact analysis, risk assessments, gap analysis, and executive summaries.
• Design, develop, and document LOB partners’ business continuity plans.
• Coordinate yearly business continuity and disaster recovery plan exercises, including crisis management plan table‑top exercises and event‑specific scenarios such as pandemic, active shooter, etc.
• Develop schedules for training content and awareness for LOB partners and their staff.
• Coordinate development of business unit schedules for annual business continuity documentation maintenance, updates, exercises, and independent review and validation.
• Prepare and present Board approval documentation to ensure top‑level understanding and approval of all plans, including status of recovery capabilities that define gaps and risks to the bank’s resiliency.
• Report business continuity status of business units to executive management.
• Provide expertise and support to management and business functional areas when a business disruption occurs.
• Serve as lead coordinator and point of contact during crisis situations; must be available as first‑responder and primary point of contact and coordinator during any disaster scenario.

• 5‑7 years of progressive experience in developing business continuity plans, disaster recovery plans, and crisis management plans; emergency management, handling…