Enterprise Resilience Analyst
American Electric Power
- Location
- Columbus, OH
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Mid
- H-1B history
- 16 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- Aug 20, 2026
About this role
Job Posting End Date 08-30-2026 Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.
Job Summary
Consults assigned Business Units (BUs) and Operating Companies in the execution of business continuity and emergency preparedness activities. Aids the enterprise in assessing business processes, in conducting business impact analysis or other risk assessments, in developing business continuity and response plans, and in designing and evaluating of tests, training, and exercises. Individuals must have an ability to analyze a range of tactical problems with moderate guidance and direction, an ability to communicate effectively using appropriate tools and processes, and an ability to remain flexible and adaptable to changing environments or stressful situations. This position is part of a 24/7 on-call team for support during corporate emergencies.
Job Description
What You’ll Do: The Analyst will lead selected governance support, reporting, evidence management, metrics, dashboard, and documentation-quality activities across Disaster Recovery, Exercise & Training, Emergency Coordination & Intelligence, Response & Recovery Planning, and Operational Resilience. This role partners with functional teams to develop reporting inputs, monitor governance artifacts, validate evidence completeness, support outcome-based metrics, and improve leadership visibility into resilience readiness, corrective actions, policy adherence, and program maturity. The Senior Analyst does not establish enterprise policy or own governance authority; instead, this role supports consistent governance execution, reporting quality, and data-informed decision-making under the direction of senior resilience leadership. Essential Job Functions & Tasks: Leads selected governance reporting, dashboard, evidence management, documentation-quality, and metrics activities for assigned resilience program areas. Partners with Disaster Recovery, Exercise & Training, Emergency Coordination & Intelligence, Response & Recovery Planning, and Operational Resilience stakeholders to collect governance and reporting inputs. Develops reporting packages, status summaries, leadership-ready dashboards, corrective action views, maturity indicators, and outcome-based metrics for review by senior resilience leaders. Executes monitoring of governance artifacts, policy acknowledgments, standard adherence evidence, exercise outputs, validation results, corrective action status, and issue documentation. Monitors data quality, evidence completeness, aging items, overdue corrective actions, reporting inconsistencies, and missing information that may affect governance visibility. Supports audit, regulatory, executive reporting, governance forum, ISO 22301 alignment, and applicable utility-industry resilience practice preparation by organizing evidence, validating completeness, and preparing materials. Develop recommendations to improve reporting routines, dashboard usability, evidence organization, governance documentation, and corrective action tracking. Supports incident, exercise, audit, activation, and after-action activities by preparing timely status information, metrics, evidence packages, and governance reporting updates. Provides input to key success measures for assigned Business Units and Operating Companies and assists in creation of materials to support reporting on Enterprise Resilience Program Health and Maturity. Assist in implementation of business continuity and crisis management activities and improvement initiatives. Additional Requirements: Ability to work extended hours with little or no advanced notice, work off-hours and be called back to work due to for significant business disruptions or corporate emergencies. Basic understanding of Incident Command System (ICS) roles and responsibilities, the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) National Response Framework. Basic understanding of