Project Manager - Security

Business Continuity

• →Lead the development, maintenance, or implementation of resiliency solutions, including business continuity plans, business impact analysis, and documentation of procedures.
• →Serve as the business continuity liaison (BCL) for Corporate Security and Resilience, in charge of updating and maintaining the BIA and BCP yearly for the entire department.
• →Lead the BCL program across the company (over 85+ members) to include monthly calls, producing timely and relevant documents and smaller meetings focused on specific issues.
• →Plan, facilitate, coordinate, observe, and de-brief annual corporate mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies.
• →Partner with business functions to identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of interruptions and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
• →Prepare reports summarizing results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations of the BC program.
• →Create and maintain metrics, risk matrices, and assist with communication to various stakeholders.
• →Serve as backup incident manager to the Resilience Manager.
• →Drive commitment, ownership, accountability, and results for BC planning with business stakeholders.

Resilience

• →Develop and maintain process for establishing critical processes, vendors, locations, etc across the company.
• →Contribute to establish and maintain program processes and practices which effectively ensure that the business resilience program remains current and incorporates/aligns with industry standards and practices as appropriate.
• →Identifies opportunities for strategic improvements that reduce the likelihood of business interruptions
• →Coordinate with Iberdrola to ensure Avangrid both the Iberdrola and Avangrid “Operational Resilience” newly approved policies align.
• →Lead the support all resilience related audits (both internal and external), rate cases, and regulatory findings that need to be addressed in support of the program.
• →Maintain NERC CIP compliance throughout the program.
• →Foster a resilience culture through planning, education, training, and analytics.
• →Participate in support of various other initiatives and ad-hoc projects to enhance business continuity and resilience.
• →Assist the exercise program and incident response as part of overall resilience efforts.
• →Others tasks and duties as assigned by management.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
• Previous experience with Business Continuity and/or Disaster Recovery Planning techniques.
• Previous experience developing or maintaining a NERC CIP compliant program.

• Emergency Management and/or training/exercise experience preferred.
• Proven project and process management experience.
• Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and its relation to key enterprise assets, applications, and business services.
• Effective written and verbal communication, including strong questioning and listening skills and the ability to look beyond obvious answers to understand impacts.
• Excels under pressure, able to make quick decisions, and escalates as appropriate.
• Well organized with an ability to independently manage deliverables and meet deadlines.
• Ability to shift priority projects quickly and seamlessly based on needs of CSRO.
• Business Continuity/Emergency Management/Project Management certification a plus.

• Growth & Continuous Improvement
• Initiative & Change
• Focused on Results
• Customer Centric (internal and/or External)
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Leadership (people managers/leaders)

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