Business Continuity Intern
Little Rock, AR  / Dallas, TX 
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Posted 10 days ago
Job/Internship Description
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

An internship at Simmons Bank provides a current college student an opportunity to receive work experience to complement their course work. The work will be related to their major or professional interest. A Simmons Sidekick will guide the intern and offer day to day advice on how to navigate the business or solve challenging problems. Simmons will benefit from the internship as real work or valuable projects are completed during the course of the internship. The bank also uses the internship experience as a way to recruit top college talent into the bank.

Summer internships will include opportunities to hear from company executives, lunch and learn sessions, networking events, fun outings and exposure to the overall company culture at Simmons Bank.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Duties could include the following.

  • Assists with the enterprise wide Business Impact Analysis that determines business processes, potential impacts, legal/regulatory obligations, recovery objectives, critical resources, and workplace recovery
  • Assists in performing risk assessments based on threat impacts
  • Identifies single points of failure and planning gaps for systems and business processes
  • Assists in the maintenance of the Bank's Business Continuity Plan
  • Generates department specific contingency plans
  • Documents and maintains training & awareness and test & exercise events that the Business Continuity Management Team conducts
  • Maintains incident logs and assists in the IT Problem Management process
  • Disseminates mass notifications to individuals and groups during emergencies
  • Review and provide suggestions in relation to Simmons Bank DR Runbooks

Qualifications

The intern must currently be enrolled in educational courses at any accredited university in the United States related to Emergency Management or Information Technology. The ideal candidate will either be majoring in Emergency Management with a minor in Information Technology or be majoring in Information Technology with a minor in Emergency Management. This individual should have completed, and passed, all courses within the FEMA Professional Development series. The intern will be expected to have a working knowledge of business continuity management within the scope of FFIEC guidelines. Since certain disasters relate to information technology, an understanding of disaster recovery principles is needed. This specialist is also expected to effectively communicate disaster related information to the appropriate parties as directed.

Equal Employment Opportunity Information: Simmons First National Corporation and its subsidiaries are committed to a policy of equal employment with respect to a person's race, color, religion, sex, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, covered veterans, military status, physical or mental disability or any other legally protected classifications. Simmons First National Corporation and its subsidiaries are committed to Affirmative Action Programs consisting of results-oriented procedures to ensure equal employment opportunities. These programs require positive action in lieu of neutral non-discrimination and merit hiring/performance policies.

 

Position Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Type
Full Time
Period of Employment
Open
Type of Compensation
Paid
College Credits Earned
No
Tuition Assistance
No
Required Student Status
Open
Preferred Majors
Other
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