Senior Policy Adviser: Resilience and Crisis Management
| Posting date: | 08 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £52,082 to £67,790 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National £52,082 - £61,084 London £57,234 - £67,790 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2025 |
| Location: | SW1A 2BQ |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 399704/2 |
Summary
We frequently engage with a range of cross-Whitehall resilience and response fora to represent DCMS interests. We deal with smaller responses in-house and have developed a volunteer cadre of staff from across the department who can be called upon to respond to more significant issues. We are developing our capability to plan and deliver exercises to test and improve both our people and our plans.
We are taking an increasing role in resilience across the department, working with various teams to understand the impacts of different risks, identifying mitigations and developing response plans. We run the Resilience Oversight Board to generate strategic oversight and drive resilience work across the department.
Part of the Performance, Projects, Inquiry & Response division in the Project Delivery and Major Events directorate, we are a small team currently located across offices including London and Cardiff.
The successful candidate will lead an exciting, varied and challenging portfolio of work to grow DCMS’ resilience and crisis management capability, working closely and building strong relationships across the department and Whitehall.
Building on the team’s existing crisis management capability, you will develop our approach to resilience as we identify and explore acute risks facing the department. You will assess their impacts and prioritise accordingly, allowing senior leaders to allocate limited resources effectively. You will then play a key role in building and testing the contingency plans that will allow an effective response should these risks crystallise. As part of this, you will work with a number of teams to coordinate thinking around the implementation of Martyn’s Law and the changes that will need to be encouraged in DCMS sectors.
You will also work with teams that are building our approach to resilience in the voluntary and community sector to shape policy at an early stage of development as we seek to maximise the impact of voluntary organisations in response to national crises.
Working with partners across Whitehall, you will maintain a clear understanding of wider government resilience policy, identifying where this will affect DCMS and preparing responses as necessary. You will represent DCMS’ interests and policy goals at cross-government fora.
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