Business Continuity Specialist at University of California, Santa Barbara

Business Continuity Specialist

Environmental Health and Safety 

University of California, Santa Barbara

Summary of Job Details:

Under the direction of the Emergency Manager, serves as the Business Continuity Specialist and as a member of the Emergency Operations Team. Develops, maintains and implements business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Analyzes impact and risk to essential business functions, including information systems and vendor supply chain risks to identify resource requirements and to promote mitigations to acceptable recover options. Supports the Emergency Manager to provide coverage for the EOC and coordinate with other department staff to facilitate the delivery of services to the campus community. Serves as EH&S liaison to department safety representatives.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

• Political acumen, plus demonstrated verbal and written communication skills, to communicate in comfortable and persuasive fashion, with the broad constituency of higher education (top campus leaders, deans, chairs, faculty, senior administrators, department managers, etc.)

• Familiarity with the organizational culture & administrative practices of higher education.

• Strong presentation skills to give engaging, persuasive, and effective presentations to large and small audiences.

• Ability to project competence and credibility in all interactions, including interactions with faculty on issues that relate to teaching and research.

• Active listening skills and team leadership and group facilitation skills

• Project management skills.

• Process analysis skills: Ability to determine how a process should work and how changes in conditions, operations and the environment affect outcomes.

• Problem-solving skills: Strong skills in identifying complex problems and analyzing and synthesizing related information to develop and evaluate options and to prepare sound and relevant proposals.

• Ability to partner with others to develop creative solutions and new ways of doing business.

• Computer skills:  Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other common computer applications. Database skills (understanding of database structure, ability to use query tools).

• Ability to maintain sensitive, highly nuanced interactions with people despite situations that may be complex or unfamiliar.

• Ability to multi-task with demanding timeframes

• Ability to use discretion and maintain confidentiality.

Special Conditions of Employment:

• Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employer Pull-Notice Program

• Some night, weekend response for emergencies required.

• Satisfactory conviction history background check

• UCSB is a Tobacco-Free environment 

Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range: $85,000-$92,000/yr. 

Full Salary Range: $74,300-$134,500/yr. 

Days/Hours: Monday- Friday 8:00am-5:00pm

Benefits Eligibility: Full Benefits 

UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.

For the University of California's Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/PPSM-20 .

For the University of California's Anti-Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination .

Application review begins: 5/7/2024

Apply online at  https://jobs.ucsb.edu

Job #67954