Business Continuity and Resilience Advisor (Contract)

ascio is hiring a Business Continuity and Resilience Advisor to support our business continuity, organizational resilience and enterprise risk work.

This role will help organizations connect business continuity and emergency management practices with enterprise risk management, assess resilience risks affecting critical services and infrastructure, and strengthen continuity and recovery arrangements.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve the integration between business continuity, emergency management and enterprise risk management.
• Incorporate business impact analysis findings into corporate and operational risk registers.
• Assess natural hazard, critical infrastructure, utility dependency and service continuity risks.
• Review business continuity plans, recovery strategies and exercise results against ISO 22301 and recognized good practice.
• Define continuity and resilience requirements for critical suppliers, service providers and shared services.
• Review recovery objectives, minimum service levels and critical dependencies.
• Develop practical recommendations to improve organizational resilience.
• Prepare clear advisory notes, risk register entries and reports for management and governance audiences.

Required Skills and Experience

• Eight or more years of experience in business continuity, organizational resilience, emergency management or a closely related field.
• Strong experience designing, implementing or operating business continuity programs aligned with ISO 22301.
• Experience conducting business impact analyses and defining recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives and minimum service levels.
• Experience developing continuity strategies and plans for critical services, operations or infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience integrating business continuity and resilience information with enterprise risk registers.
• Experience assessing natural hazard risks including flood, seismic events, wildfire, extreme weather and utility failure.
• Understanding of critical infrastructure dependencies and interdependencies.
• Experience designing and facilitating exercises and validating continuity or emergency response plans.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain resilience risks and recommendations clearly to both operational and executive audiences.

Qualifications

• One or more current professional certifications such as CBCP, MBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer or ISO 22301 Lead Auditor.
• Applicants must be able to provide certification status and expiry or renewal dates, where applicable.
• Degree or diploma in business, emergency management, engineering, risk management or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• ICS 100, 200 or 300 training is considered an asset.

Preferred Experience

• Utility, transportation, public sector or critical infrastructure continuity programs.
• IT disaster recovery and technology resilience planning.
• Climate adaptation and resilience planning.
• Crisis management and crisis management team design.
• Supplier and third-party continuity assessment.
• Emergency management planning and exercises.
• Experience working within large or complex multi-department organizations.

Location and Work Arrangement

• Remote within Canada.
• Some assignments may require occasional onsite work or travel within Canada.
• Applicants must be based in Canada and legally entitled to work in Canada.
• A criminal record check may be required before access to sensitive systems, information or environments.