Senior Business Continuity Specialist

Creating impactAs Senior Business Continuity Specialist, you will contribute to Business-as-Usual BCM delivery for assigned IT domains. The work requires structure, collaboration, strong BCM judgment and the ability to maintain quality in short delivery timelines. Success in this role is measured by the quality and timely delivery of BCM lifecycle outputs, continuity plans, exercises and supporting documentation.You will focus on:Creating new, high-quality Business Continuity Plans for highly complex IT domains.Developing practical continuity solutions, including recovery strategies, workarounds, response priorities, dependencies, roles and responsibilities.Preparing strategic choices required for impactful recovery strategies with analysis, and outlining short- and long-term actions required for implementation.Working with operational teams to gather input, validate assumptions and understand practical constraints.Preparing and facilitating risk-based BCM exercises that go beyond basic walkthroughs or call tree tests.Updating Business Impact Analyzes and risk assessments, and further increasing their maturity.Sharing knowledge with the team and stakeholders, so the approach, choices and quality standards can be understood and reused after the assignment.Documenting BCM exercise outcomes, lessons learned, improvement actions and supporting management reporting on BCM lifecycle progress.With each otherYou will join a team that works on Business Continuity Management in a complex environment. During this assignment, the standing team will be focused on a strategic continuity-related program. You will help keep Business-as-Usual BCM delivery strong for CITO by taking on important BCM deliverables with a high degree of independence.We're looking for hands-on BCM practitioners who:• Are already based in the Netherlands (preferred)• Can start as soon as possible• Have directly performed BIAs, RAMAs, BCP development, and BCM exercises• Have worked in complex IT and regulated environments• Are execution-focused and able to independently deliver BCM lifecycle outputs• Have practical experience working with operational and IT stakeholders.