University of East Anglia
Head of IT Disaster Recovery & Continuity
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Head of IT Disaster Recovery & Continuity
Ref: ALC1629
Salary up to £66,535 per annum, dependent on skills and experience.
Make UEA more resilient, lead the recovery capability that keeps learning, teaching, and research running.
We’re hiring a Head of IT Disaster Recovery & Continuity to build and lead our university-wide ITDR capability: policy and governance, assured recovery plans, end-to-end testing, SaaS assurance, and the dashboards that give leaders confidence in our resilience. You’ll work across IT and Computing Services (ITCS) and the wider university, shaping roadmaps that align with business RTO/RPOs and our Digital Strategy.
The impact you’ll have
- Establish and chair the ITDR governance group, set policy & lifecycle, define roles, and maintain recovery dashboards/heatmaps and risk registers.
- Align IT recovery to business BIAs, validate RTO/RPOs, communicate capabilities/constraints, and drive risk acceptance or remediation where gaps exist.
- Define and socialise failure modes (including cyber and data-centre scenarios), scope what we will/won’t recover from, and embed this into testing and plans.
- Orchestrate an ITDR testing programme and build recoverability into change, incident, and risk processes.
- Oversee SaaS recovery assurance and cloud concentration risk, integrating supplier evidence into continuity reporting.
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What you’ll bring
- Significant enterprise-scale experience across ITDR/BCM and broad technologies (applications, data, networks, infra, security, service management).
- Proven leadership: governance, stakeholder engagement, vendor management, ITIL best practice; ability to translate complex risk and recovery topics for non-technical leaders.
- Strength in analysis, change, and business case development; confident setting RTO/RPO with the business and evidencing them through testing.
- (Nice to have) ISO 22301, CBCP, CISSP, TOGAF/SABSA; HE sector familiarity.
Why UEA, why now
UEA’s Digital Strategy aims to optimise organisational development through digital enhancement (Aim 4) and strengthen our digital infrastructure & capabilities (Aim 5). This role is pivotal to secure-by-design operations and service excellence across a digitally connected campus.
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This full-time post is available on an indefinite basis.
UEA offers a variety of flexible working options and although this role is advertised on a full-time basis, we encourage applications from individuals who would prefer a flexible working pattern including annualised hours, compressed working hours, part-time, job share, term-time only, and/or hybrid working. Details of preferred hours should be stated in the personal statement and will be discussed further at interview.
Further information on our great benefits package, including 44 days annual leave inclusive of Bank Holidays and additional University Customary days (pro rata for part-time), can be found on our benefits page.
Closing date: 4 August 2026
The University holds an Athena Swan Silver Institutional Award in recognition of our advancement towards gender equality.
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