Business Continuity Consultant

Positions: Associate BCP Consultant, BCP Consultant, Senior BCP Consultant

Company: Spohn & Associates

Department: Spohn Consulting

Date: 15 Feb 2016

Job Title: Associate BCP Consultant, BCP Consultant, Senior BCP Consultant

Job Type: Full Time

Reports to: Steve Davies, VP of Consulting

Job Location: 8940 Research, Suite 300, Austin, TX 78758

Job Description: Spohn Consulting provides a range of services for customers in the Information Security realm. Our main products are Security Audits, Security Assessments, Risk Assessments, and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning.

This position encompasses:

• Creating Business Impact Assessment documents
• Creating Risk Assessment documents
• Designing Recovery Strategies
• Writing Recovery Strategy documents
• Writing Business Continuity Plans
• Writing Disaster Recovery Plans
• Creating, reviewing, and critiquing continuity plans
• Report and documentation generation
• Independent work
• Advising customers

This individual will be responsible for conducting on-site assessments and generating BC and DR plans. Performing this job will require gathering data using multiple methods including interviewing, analyzing the gathered data, and presenting results in documents to customers.

As a BCP consultant, the individual is expected to be able to operate independently while at the customer site as well as analyze and prepare customer deliverables with little assistance.

Major Responsibilities:

• Perform BCP consulting and prepare reports
• Conduct interviews and gather data to create BIA documents
• Conduct Risk assessments for customers as well as help customers conduct risk assessments and give training to customers on how to conduct risk assessments
• Provide documentation, project tracking, and management reporting on your billable activities
• Effectively manage projects for efficiency, completion, and quality
• Provide support in creating customer proposals, designing work specifications, pricing proposals, and writing service description documentation
• Support the development of Spohn BCP offerings.
• Evaluate recovery strategies
• Guide executives on the process of taking an organization through the BCP process
• Understand key technologies such as high availability data storage, virtualization, and system redundancy
• Perform other duties as required by company operations.

Regular Duties:

Primarily responsible for performing BCP services work for outside customers from the line of Spohn BCP offerings.

• Engage customers
• Run tools
• Conduct interviews
• Gather data
• Analyze results
• Document results
• Present results
• Support further product development
• Support collateral development
• Support sales calls

Projects: Periodically perform various projects such as:

• Statement of work development
• Product development
• Automation of processes used in completing BCP services

Job Requirements:

• Degree desirable, but not necessarily a requirement
• Certifications desirable but no specific certification required
• Able to formulate, understand, and communicate abstract concepts
• Ability to analyze data and derive summaries
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Working knowledge of databases, SQL, and reports
• Risk analysis process knowledge
• Specific knowledge in generating BC and DR plans
• Working knowledge of technology and DR strategies
• Ability to develop processes to conduct and document assessments
• Ability to define a BCP service offering for marketing collateral
• Must work daily from the Austin office
• Must be willing to travel (we have designed our product to require between 1/10th and 1/3rd onsite work. The remainder of the work will be performed from our offices. This should translate to 10-30% travel. However, the candidate must be prepared to travel more if necessary).