• Join the FIFA Infrastructure Boom
• Public Works Government Authority
• Location: Doha, Qatar

The country of Qatar continues to experience substantial construction growth with infrastructure budgets rising to over $120B for infrastructure and road projects by 2018. To support this growth, our client; the public works authority; has created a number of senior management expatriate postings for urgent commencement. With long term prospects providing stability and career development, our employer is looking to recruit an experienced Business Continuity Specialist to their team to add value in an advisory capacity. This role is responsible to plan, lead, and manage the development and implementation of the firm’s Business Continuity Plan in order to ensure that effective arrangements / measures are in place to respond to any incident and prevent any unexpected internal/external scenario or disaster from disturbing the continuity of business operations.

Working as part of the Corporate Service team, your responsibilities in the role will include to:

• Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of the business continuity plan in coordination with the Risk and other relevant functions within the firm.
• Lead the development of business impact analysis with relevant functions to identify critical business processes and functions that must be available in the event of a disruption.
• Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of Business Continuity processes, procedures, and functions in order to ensure the availability and continuity of the critical business functions at all times.
• Lead the identification and establishment of disaster recovery site if required in coordination with IT and other relevant functions in order to mitigate the risks in the event of a disaster or operational disruption.
• Maintain the operational effectiveness and readiness of the disaster recovery site through conducting regular inspections and ensuring that all information and data can be stored safely, so that the integrity and confidentiality of the firm institutional memory is fully protected and easily restored in the event of disaster or incident.
• Ensure that that the recovery capabilities meet the business requirements through conducting regular testing in coordination with IT and analyzing the future business needs, so that the decisions related to the design and procurement of the new recovery infrastructure are facilitated by key inputs and facts.
• Ensure maintaining a log of incidents and review reports before presenting to the top management to ensure they are comprehensive and accurate in their key findings and provide value added recommendations for improvements of the business continuity plans.
• Lead the documentation, assessment, and reporting of operational risks that could negatively impact the continuity of key businesses processes and functions and recommend mitigation plans to process owners and other relevant functions to maintain the availability and protection of The firm business operations.
• Conduct regular testing of BCP to validate that recovery capabilities meet business requirements.
• Promote the firm-wide business continuity awareness and communicate BCP to all stakeholders to ensure that the organization is prepared to deal with incidents and recovery of business processes takes place as per the preset guidelines.