Details Report for:
13-1199.04 - Business Continuity Planners
Develop, maintain and implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions. Perform risk analyses. Act as a coordinator for recovery efforts in emergency situations.
This title represents an occupation for which data collection is currently underway.
Tasks | Education | Wages & Employment
Tasks Save Table (XLS/CSV)
- Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.
- Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber-attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.
- Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
- Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation.
- Create scenarios to re-establish operations from various types of business disruptions.
- Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets such as data centers.
- Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
- Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
- Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans.
- Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.
- Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
- Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
- Attend professional meetings, read literature, and participate in training or other educational offerings to keep abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity.
- Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets.
- Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.
- Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.
- Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
- Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection.
- Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance.
- Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.
- Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
Education
Education data collected from Business Operations Specialists, All Other.
 Percentage of Respondents |
Education Level Attained |
|---|---|
49   |
Bachelor's degree or higher |
| 33 |
Some college |
| 18 |
High school or less |
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
survey of employees aged 25-44.
Wages & Employment Trends
National
Median wages data collected from Business Operations Specialists, All Other.
Employment data collected from Business Operations Specialists, All Other.
| Category | Occupation Information |
|---|---|
| Median wages (2008) | $28.81 hourly, $59,920 annual |
| Employment (2006) | 1,043,000 employees |
| Projected growth (2006-2016) | 
Much faster than average (21% or higher)
|
| Projected need (2006-2016) | 330,000 additional employees |
State & National
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2008 wage data
and 2006-2016 employment projections
.
"Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2006-2016). "Projected need" represents job openings due to growth and net replacement.