Resilience Specialist - Waverley Court - 11132_1756808539
| Posting date: | 02 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £39,129.00 to £46,023.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 September 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH8 8BG |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 11132_1756808539 |
Summary
Resilience Specialist
Waverley Court
Salary: £39,129 - £46,023
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
As a local authority the Council has a statutory obligation under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) (CCA) to develop and maintain resilience arrangements in order to ensure the Council is able to respond to external incidents whilst continuing to deliver essential activities to pre-defined levels. The purpose of the post is to assist in the development, review, validation of resilience plans for a range of potential incidents and major events, helping to deliver the Corporate Resilience Management (CRM) Programme and, during incidents, to provide support and advice. The post is also responsible for delivering training and exercising. This is a key post within the Council on resilience matters.
Main responsibilities:
- Develop, validate and review the Council's corporate resilience plans, procedures and protocols.
- Develop, validate and review event contingency plants.
- Respond to resilience incidents.
- Risk assessment and risk management, including scenario planning.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders including central and local government, other Category 1 Responders, voluntary organisations, key site operators and businesses to develop, validate and review resilience plans and coordination arrangements.
- Develop, deliver and participate in training and exercises to validate resilience documentation.
- Assist in the organisation and provision of training and exercising on resilience procedures and protocols, plans and arrangements for Elected Members, Council staff and Senior Officers, staff from other appropriate agencies, including the preparation of associated documentation and materials, using a range of methods, including remote learning.
- Event management for training and exercising events.
- Assist in the delivery of the programme of high-calibre events, e.g. for Edinburgh businesses, through the Edinburgh Resilience Forum (ERF).
- Assist with the development and maintenance of the Council Incident Coordination Centre and equipment.
- Draft reports, papers and presentations as required.
- Provide secretariat function / service for a range of resilience-related groups.
- Research and preparation / collation of materials and data for resilience planning / data collection.
- Support the formatting, publication and accessibility of resilience plans and data, including data input, word processing, website development, etc.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" target="_blank">Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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