Resilience and Business Continuity Support Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 02 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 01 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Cwmni: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 5608 |
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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8RA.
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker, with a requirement to occasionally attend venues across Leicestershire and Rutland for training, exercising and meetings
Salary: (Grade 8) £27,717 - £30,066 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 37.5 hours a week
Contract Type: Fixed term, 3 years
Closing Date: 23rd July 2025
Interview Date(s): 5th and 7th August 2025
We are seeking a highly motivated and adaptable individual to join our team as a Resilience and Business Continuity Support Officer on a fixed-term contract for three years. As the Resilience and Business Continuity Support Officer, you will be responsible for providing administrative support for resilience and, in the main, business continuity to the Leicestershire County Council Resilience and Business Continuity Team. You will help ensure that critical services can continue in the event of any disruption, whether it be natural hazards, technical failures, or any other unforeseen circumstances.
Experience in setting up and running the administrative function of a busy team is essential. While some prior experience in resilience and business field continuity is desirable, we welcome applicants who may not have direct experience in this area but possess relevant transferable skills, such as project management and risk assessment.
About the Role
Key responsibilities:
- Provide resilience and business continuity support to the Council to assist in ensuring that critical services can continue in the event of any disruption, whether natural disasters, technical failures, or other unforeseen circumstances.
- Work with several Council departments and teams to develop, implement and maintain administrative support for resilience and business continuity management and strategies
- Assist in assessing risks and developing strategies to mitigate them
- Assist and eventually help deliver Council staff training for their preparation to respond to any emergency
- Provide administration for the monitoring and review of business continuity plans regularly to ensure they remain up to date and effective
- Provide administration for the coordinating the testing and exercising of resilience and business continuity plans across all local authorities
- Longer term, the successful applicant will have access to relevant personal training relating to the broadening of their knowledge of both business continuity and resilience
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:
- Level 3 qualification in Business Administration or similar experience
- Ability to quickly learn on the job relating to business continuity and resilience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels also, with diverse individuals and groups
- Demonstrated adaptability and flexibility
- A proactive and self-motivated approach, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong attention to detail
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with numerous departments within a large county council. 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. 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 provide 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 in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances while 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 that determines where it can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Tim Herbert, Senior Resilience Officer
Telephone: 0116 305 6101
Email: Emergency.Management@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 explaining 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.
If you have any technical issues when applying for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.
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