Aviation Resilience Policy Advisor
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 16 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £34,233 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | National - £34,233 London - £38,289 |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Leeds |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 416111/2 |
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Do you have strong analytical skills?
Are you a self starter and able to deliver through others?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Aviation Resilience team are responsible for ensuring the UK aviation sector are appropriately prepared to mitigate and respond effectively to major incidents that have a severe impact on the sector, such as winter weather, IT issues repatriation events and industrial action. This is done through active risk monitoring, horizon scanning for potential new risks and possible mitigations, developing and maintaining response plans, working with the aviation industry and cross-Government partners to improve resilience and learning from past incidents. The postholder will need to work with other divisions across both aviation directorates, the DfT Transport Security Operations Centre and other Government Departments and industry.
The work is diverse, giving the post holder an opportunity to develop a wide range of skills whilst working on projects which clearly align with the organisational priorities. The responsive nature of the team’s work has created a flexible, co-operative team which enables post‑holders to develop innovative solutions, take ownership of projects and develop their leadership skills, often working to challenging timescales.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport:
DfTc Policy roles: Policy opportunities at the Department for Transport - Department for Transport Careers
The post holder will lead on several civil contingency portfolio areas that have potential to disrupt the flow of the aviation sector. This can range from severe weather, volcanic eruption, drone incursion, repatriation, events. The responsibilities of the post-holder will include working closely with aviation operations and resilience leads to develop effective contingency and response plans.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Manage and be responsible for team operations, including team inbox.
- Develop and maintain aviation resilience team response plan for a specific portfolio area.
- Contribute to Departmental crisis response to major transport incidents with significant sector impacts.
- Support written and verbal briefings for seniors and Ministers on aviation contingency plans and response.
- Represent the aviation industry and provide aviation resilience advice in cross‑Government crisis response forums.
- Work with industry resilience experts to ensure the sector has effective contingency plans for high impact events, clear line of communications and reporting arrangements for response to incidents.
- Manage relationships with key stakeholders, both internal and external. This will require engagement with senior leadership, OGDs and external bodies.
- The post has a high degree of autonomy and the holder must be comfortable operating within a broad strategic direction in pursuit of continuously improving aviation sector resilience and teams response performance.
- Part of aviation resilience on-call rota.
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