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Business Continuity Planners: reported tasks and exploration worksheet
Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.
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This source lists 21 tasks, including 19 marked Core and 2 marked Supplemental. Labels and dates are retained below. Employers can combine or divide these responsibilities differently; explore the task itself before assuming it belongs in every version of the role.
Task source dates: 08/2025.
21 tasks shown
Core · Task 15965 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
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.
Core · Task 15956 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
Core · Task 15962 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.
Core · Task 15951 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
Core · Task 15961 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
Core · Task 15948 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.
Core · Task 15957 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
Core · Task 15960 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
Core · Task 15947 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
Core · Task 15954 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.
Core · Task 15952 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.
Core · Task 15958 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.
Core · Task 15964 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation.
Core · Task 15953 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets.
Core · Task 15963 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Create scenarios to reestablish operations from various types of business disruptions.
Core · Task 15949 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance.
Core · Task 15959 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans.
Core · Task 15967 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.
Core · Task 15955 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
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.
Supplemental · Task 15966 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.
Supplemental · Task 15950 · 08/2025 · Occupational Expert
Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection.
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