Business Continuity Planners
Planning, coordinating, evaluating, and transitioning Civil Affairs operations provides transferable experience for developing and testing organizational continuity plans.
How to prepare: Build a sample continuity plan for a civilian organization that identifies critical processes, recovery decisions, and communication responsibilities, then test it against a disruption scenario.
What the civilian work involves
- 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.
- Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
- Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software