Business Continuity Specialist

Most days mix focused program work in your assigned domain — running exercises, maintaining plans, supporting a business unit, or owning a specific BC sub-process. You'll often work as part of a small BC team or function, partnering with operational owners and reporting into a BC manager or director. The cadence tends to follow the program calendar rather than incident-driven sprints.

What's harder than people expect is the political work of getting plan owners to actually engage with the process. Plans tend to atrophy without active maintenance, and you'll spend real time chasing updates from people whose day jobs are not BC. Tooling varies widely — purpose-built BC platforms at larger organizations, SharePoint and Excel at smaller ones, and the difference shapes the day meaningfully.

People who tend to thrive here are detail-oriented, collaborative, and patient with the slow rhythms of program work. The role tends to be a foothold into senior specialist, BC manager, or broader risk and resilience positions. The trade-off is that the work can feel specialized without being decisive, and growth often comes from broadening into manager-level work or specializing further into specific domains.