Job Description:

Incident Manager

Author(s): Jeremy Roberts , John Annand , Fred Chagnon

The incident manager is responsible for the key activity of coordination during a critical incident, and supervises all involved staff until the incident is resolved. Use the job description template to outline the incident manager's responsibilities, including:

  • Facilitating communication between the business and IT.
  • Running the critical incident war room.
  • Managing escalation between tiers of incident response.

Use this template as part of the full blueprint, Incident and Problem Management.