Business Continuity Officer
| Posting date: | 16 June 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5466 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8RA.
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker, with a requirement to work across Leicestershire and Rutland
Salary: £34,350 - £37,950 (Grade 10)
Working Hours: 37 hrs a week
Contract Type: Fixed term, 2 years
Closing Date: 30th June 2025
Interview Date(s): 9th July 2025
We are seeking a highly motivated and adaptable individual to join our team as a Business Continuity Officer on a fixed-term contract for two years. As the Business Continuity Officer, you will be responsible for providing business continuity support to several local authorities as part of the Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland Resilience Partnership. Helping to ensure that critical services can continue in the event of any disruption, whether it be natural hazards, technical failures or any other unforeseen circumstances.
While prior experience in business continuity is desirable, we welcome applicants who may not have direct experience in this area but possess relevant transferable skills, such as project management, risk assessment, or emergency response.
About the Role
As the Business Continuity Officer, you will be responsible for providing business continuity support to several local authorities, ensuring that critical services can continue in the event of any disruption, whether it be natural disasters, technical failures, or any other unforeseen circumstances.
Key responsibilities:
• Work with multiple local authorities to develop, implement and maintain business continuity plans and strategies
• Assess risks and develop strategies to mitigate them
• Ensure that all staff are trained and prepared to respond to any emergency
• Monitor and review business continuity plans regularly to ensure they remain up to date and effective
• Coordinate the testing and exercising of business continuity plans across all local authorities
• Provide advice and support to managers and staff on business continuity matters
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:
• Relevant experience in project management, risk assessment, emergency response or a related field
• Ability to quickly learn and apply business continuity planning principles and techniques
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels
• A proactive and self-motivated approach, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with multiple local authorities and gain exposure to a variety of business continuity challenges. If you are a proactive and self-motivated individual with a passion for making a difference in your community, we would love to hear from you.
If you have a passion for ensuring the continuity of critical services and are looking for an exciting and challenging role in a dynamic local authority, we would love to hear from you.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and 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 individual's 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 term-time working, part-time 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 Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Helen Hardy, Resilience and Business Continuity Manager
Telephone: 0116 3056 145
Email: helen.hardy@leics.gov.uk
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 Apply section 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.
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