Senior Resilience Officer
Senior Resilience Officer
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Job Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker 1 day in office
Salary:per annum (prorata for parttime)
Working Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type:Permanent
Closing Date: 30th April 2025
Interview Date(s): 21st May 2025
The LLR (Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland) Resilience Partnership is committed to improving the emergency preparedness resilience and response of Local Authorities in Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland through collaborative planning effective coordination and community engagement.
We work closely with local authorities emergency services health organisations and various stakeholders to ensure robust preparation response and recovery plans are in place for emergencies and disruptive events.
Job Purpose: The Senior Resilience Officer plays a critical role in coordinating and facilitating various workstreams that assist local authorities in discharging their duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading a team of LLR Resilience Officers
- Assisting in the coordination of the LLR Resilience Partnership team operational response to civil emergencies including acting as a tactical advisor to senior council officers across the partnership.
- In the absence of an LLR Resilience Manager manage and lead the operational response to civil emergencies.
- Coordinate the development and delivery of emergency planning response and recovery arrangements ensuring they meet the statutory responsibilities of the LLR Resilience Partners
- Fostering and maintaining effective internal and external relationships with key partners
- Coordinating an effective training and exercise programme
- Advise and support councils to establish develop and maintain effective resilience and business continuity arrangements
About You
To apply for this post you must:
- A degree in emergency planning risk management or a related field or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience in resilience business continuity or emergency planning preferably within a multiagency or public sector environment.
- Strong organisational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and meet tight deadlines.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
- Indepth knowledge of relevant legislation standards and best practices in resilience and business continuity.
- Previous experience in a senior or supervisory role within a resilience or emergency planning context.
- Experience in delivering training and exercises related to resilience and business continuity.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Helen Hardy Resilience and Business Continuity Manager
Telephone: 0
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2 or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
