Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• To maintain the Vodacom Business Continuity Management System in conformance with the ISO 22301 standard.
• To ensure conformance to the Vodafone Business Resilience Policy and related controls.
• To ensure conformance to the Vodacom Group Business Continuity Management Policy and related continuity procedures, guidelines and frameworks.
• To coordinate resources across groups within the local markets for testing, exercising, meetings and workshops related to business continuity projects, tasks and initiatives.
• To develop BCM and Crisis Management project schedules and manage projects across the local markets.
• To ensure that workable alternative crisis communication strategies are implemented and maintained.
• To undertake Business Continuity Management Tasks as required by the Principal Specialist and Crisis Management as required by the Executive Head Business Resilience.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop and maintain the Business Impact Analysis to identify critical business activities and or services and the impact during disruption
• Design recovery strategies, arrangements and tactics to ensure the continuation of critical business activities
• Implement continuity and recovery strategies/ arrangements through the development and maintenance of business continuity plans
• Ensuring the Crisis Management Plans and pertaining deliverables are continually up to date
• Validate the business continuity and crisis management capability through testing and exercising of the relevant plans and their arrangements
• Assessment of critical suppliers to determine their business continuity capabilities
• Administration and maintenance of the Business Resilience Information System
• Maintenance of the Vodafone Business Continuity and Crisis Management (BCCC) Policy controls
• To prepare the business and collate the relevant information for the ISO22301 certification
• To maintain an effective alternative crisis communication strategy

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical/professional qualifications: 

• A degree or equivalent qualification in Business Management (Essential)
• Project Management certification or higher (Beneficial)
• Business Continuity Management certification (CBCI/ MBCI/ ISO22301) (Essential)
• Additional professional relevant certification will be an advantage.
• Business Management certification (Preferable)

Core competencies, knowledge and experience :

• Minimum of 5 years experience within a business environment with exposure to operational and business processes (Essential)
• Minimum of 3 Years experience as project manager or project leader (Essential)
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Business Continuity Management operations pertaining to the BCi Good Practice Guidelines and ISO 22301 standard (Essential)
• Experience in a Telco will be an advantage. 
• Experience in audit will be an advantage.
• Having in-depth knowledge of Vodacom’s business processes and functions will be an advantage