As part of preparation towards the full rollout of the National Identity Management System (NIMS), the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has arranged to engage the services of suitable candidates with integrity drive and desire to win professionally as individual consultants for the following IT functions in the Commission?s IT/Identity Database Department:
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Position: IT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Manager
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Job Description:
The successful candidate shall be responsible for coordinating the development and execution of policies and procedures to mitigate exposure during disruptions of service and ensure the critical business functions can be resumed within a defined time frame. This responsibility includes, coordinating design, development, maintenance, and exercising (testing) of the overall disaster recovery plans for each critical functional area of the organization to address the following.
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- The Emergency Response organization and procedures for reacting to and coordinating recovery efforts.
- The Recovery Support procedures for restoring key organization resources
- The Business Resumption procedures for the continuation of critical business processes.
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Furthermore, the incumbent shall be responsible for ensuring that critical business functions are perpetually available to stakeholders and entities that must have access to those functions. The manager?s activities include a variety of daily activities to maintain service consistency and recover-ability, such as project risk assessment, change control, and periodic system audit and backups etc.
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Duties and Responsibilities:
- Identify acceptable recovery time periods, and establish resources required for the successful resumption of business operations in the event of a disaster
- Assure records required for recovery are identified and properly maintained;
- Establish disaster recovery testing methodologies
- Plan and coordinate procedures the testing of recovery support and business resumption procedures in different functional areas.
- Conduct disaster recovery training for staff members in all functional areas
- Provide and regularly update instructional and informational materials on how staffs are expected to respond during an emergency.
- Assist recovery support and business resumption staff during a disaster in the implementation of response and alternate operating strategies.
- Act as a coordinator during an emergency situation.
- Work with vendors of disaster recovery services and facilities; study and recommend outside services for use during a disaster situation.
- Maintain contact with outside organizations participating in reciprocal agreements.
- Work with business continuity management to ensure that as new equipment, facilities, services, and systems are installed that the disaster recovery issues are addressed.
- Maintain contact with professional organizations and local/regional emergency response groups.
- Perform risk analysis for corporate functional areas to identity points of vulnerability and recommend disaster avoidance and reduction strategies.
- Provide guidance to and coordinate the efforts of staff members in the development of recovery procedures for key areas of the organization.
- Develop corporate emergency response procedures.
- Analyze environmental and equipment configurations for critical corporate resources; recommend disaster avoidance measures and improved backup capabilities.
- Periodically review changes in corporate resources with the management of those areas to assure the effectiveness of the recovery procedures and backup capabilities.
- Conduct business, impact analyses and assist company units to determine critical business processes.
- Coordinate the efforts of staff members in different functional areas in the development of procedures for the continuity of business processes in a disaster situation.
- ?Assure that recovery procedures are effective for the restoration or key corporate resources and for the resumption of critical business processes.
- Design, develop and maintain standards and procedures for disaster recovery documentation.
- Distribute and update emergency procedures to reflect evacuation drills and revise the procedures as necessary.
- Keep up to date and upgrade the Business Continuity and Disaster Recover standards, tools and, techniques defined for the organization in line with leading industry standards.
- Train and manage the business continuity and disaster recovery unit within the organization.
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Minimum Requirements/Skills:
- Post graduate degree e.g. Masters in Management Information Systems (MIS), Computer Science, Statistics, Business Management, or related field.
- Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) or Associate Disaster Recovery Planner accreditation preferred.
- Membership of the Disaster Recovery Institute.
- Membership of Business Continuity Institute.
- Know-how of ITIL & IT Service Continuity ?certification will be an advantage.
- Knowledge and understanding of the relevant standards (ISO31000, ISO22301, ISO 27000, BS25999 etc.)
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) /Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
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Method of Application:
All interested and suitably qualified candidates should download the relevant Request for Proposal (RFP) Documents from the commission?s website: www.nimc.gov.ng. Duly completed and signed RFP Documents should be saved with Applicant?s names in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF file format and e-mail to: ics@nimc.gov.ng for only the advertised position of interest, not later than Tuesday, September 11, 2012. Please indicate job title as subject of the email.
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Prospective candidate should not apply for more than one position!
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Please Note:
That physical submission of applications will not be entertained!!!
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