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Public sector role profile
Hire an IT Emergency & Continuity Lead for Government & Public Sector
Prepare, run and exercise recovery — beyond paper plans and slide decks
We run these mandates through IT recruitment with IT executive search depth, experienced IT recruiters and structured technology recruitment delivery.
Outages of critical services and digital channels are highly visible; emergency management links technical recovery to leadership and communications.
ISO 22301 frames continuity; practice hinges on exercises, roles and procurable spare capacity.
Interfaces to incident management practice, NIS2 reporting and IR teams must be documented.
We recruit practitioners with public-sector or regulated continuity experience.
Role profile
Purpose
Improve resilience of government IT services — evidenced by exercises and KPIs.
Typical accountability
Maintain plans, exercise programme, coordination with IR/IT, reporting to CISO and leadership.
Example KPIs
- • RTO/RPO met in exercises
- • exercise participation coverage
- • time to recovery in scripted scenarios
Responsibilities in detail
1. Plans & dependencies
Impact views for critical services; supplier dependencies and digital programmes.
2. Exercises
Tabletops and technical failover tests; lessons learned into CAPA.
3. Communications
Templates for citizens, press and internal channels.
4. IR coupling
Cyber incident vs pure outage; CSIRT processes.
Interfaces
Internal
- CISO
- IR
- IT operations
- org development
- communications
External
- external hotlines
- cloud providers
Without funded exercises, plans decay.
Qualifications
Professional
- BCM/ITSCM
- crisis management
- programme delivery
Personal
- composure
- organisation
- political awareness
Compensation notes
See German IT project lead salary benchmarks as rough orientation.
Challenges
Complex supply chains; threat pressure on outage scenarios.
- • Boundary between IT outage and security incident.
- • Exercise capacity vs daily delivery.
- • Political expectations of instant recovery.
More role profiles
See the public sector & government recruiting overview — or the broader cybersecurity recruiting hub . Related public-sector roles:
- • Hire an Incident Response Lead for Government & Public Sector
- • Hire a CISO for Government & Public Sector
- • Hire a SOC Lead for Government & Public Sector
- • Hire an IT Security Auditor for Government & Public Sector
We also fill roles in industrial IT recruitment — including OT/ICS security and manufacturing IT.
Hire a government continuity lead
We align critical services, exercise cadence and IR interfaces before sourcing.
Practitioner profiles — not paper-only BCM.