Director of Business Resiliency

Honor exists to expand the world’s capacity to care.

We’re combining high tech with high-touch to deliver better home care for aging adults, better jobs for Care Professionals, and entirely new offerings to support the aging journey, at scale. 

Founded in 2014, and now a Series E funded “Unicorn” valued at over $1B, Honor leads the world’s largest home care network with the most advanced care platform. Our August 2021 acquisition of Home Instead has created a global company that’s revolutionizing how society cares for older adults, their families, and Care Professionals.

The Honor Care Platform combines local care and the most advanced technology to bring the highest quality care to more aging adults. 

Grow at Honor as part of a united team where everyone shows up authentically, shares ideas bravely, and solves complex problems! 

About the Work:

Honor is seeking an experienced Director of Business Resiliency to take a strategic leadership role in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from business interruptions—including natural disasters (hurricanes, floods, wildfires) system failures, and other unforeseen events—that may impact our distributed caregiving operations and client population. 

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a mission-driven company’s efforts to ensure operational resilience, while making a direct impact on the safety and wellbeing of our caregivers and clients.

While many businesses can recover from temporary disruptions, Honor’s ability to provide continuous care to senior clients in their homes directly impacts their safety and wellbeing. The stakes are high, and your leadership in business continuity will help ensure that we’re always ready to respond, recover, and keep our clients safe in any crisis.

In this role, you’ll report to VP, Regional Operations, partner with department directors and the executive team to develop and implement proactive business continuity plans that mitigate risk and safeguard Honor’s operations.

You will oversee incident management as the primary incident commander, ensuring effective response and recovery while working with cross-functional teams (Trust & Safety, Communications, Regional Operations, Legal, HR and Product) to deliver care. As Honor continues to grow, you’ll help evolve our preparedness strategies to evolve our business continuity programs in-line with Honor’s growth and geographic expansion. 

The right candidate for this role brings operational expertise, a high sense of accountability and drive, and an ability to think strategically while also doing what it takes to get the job done.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure a viable business continuity plan and drive emergency preparedness and business continuity in Honor’s ongoing operations
• Build and maintain company Emergency Preparedness plans for natural events (e.g. hurricane, wildfire) and systems outages that impact both our care operations and our dispersed HQ employee population. 
• Conduct risk assessments for various departments and functions, analyzing potential business impact of unpredictable business interruptions such as natural disasters, security breach, legal claims, and market disruptions.
• Collaborates with IT staff to develop and implement best practices to protect and restore data and systems in the event of natural disasters, viruses, and hackers.
• Identifies and implements recovery operations and methods to allow the company to function at limited or partial capacity in the event that part or all of the infrastructure is damaged or destroyed.
• Develop and execute cycles of continuous improvement following emergency events; ensure relevant documentation is updated, teams are trained and tooling is updated.
• Ensure 24/7 event monitoring and timely escalation, including by effectively leveraging and training Honor’s existing 24/7 team.
• Establish reporting tools that allow us to report on impact to operations and safety risk in real-time.
• Creates and facilitates practice drills for risk mitigation and plan execution.

• Manage in-the-moment incident response
• Leverage 3rd party tools to provide ongoing monitoring of potential events
• Conduct regular threat assessments based on anticipated event severity and scope of impact to Care and US HQ operations
• Assume the role of Response Lead during event to direct Honor’s response, in-line with Honor’s emergency response protocols, including:
• Provide timely, proactive event alerts and updates to operating teams, including expected number of clients, CPs, and employees impacted
• Identify and implement pre-event preparedness activities, including es