Resilience Advisor
| Posting date: | 12 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £34,233 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 427158/2 |
Summary
Can you bring energy and drive to lead strategic projects, influence others, and champion resilience across the transport sector?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
The Transport Resilience, Analysis, International and Sanctions Directorate within DfT is home to the Resilience Division. The Division’s main objective is to ensure that the Department can prepare for, mitigate, and respond to a major incident impacting the UK transport network and wider UK Government interests.
As a part of this Division, you will work with partners across DfT, other government departments, and academia and industry, to build the department’s resilience to future threats and hazards. These could range from terrorist incidents and cyber-attacks to catastrophic flooding and volcanic eruptions.
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 DfT: Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers
This role will be within the Strategy and Engagement team, supporting the development and implementation of a new Transport Resilience Strategy, which will introduce a new approach to resilience within the department and guide activity with external stakeholders in the transport sector. As well as supporting strategy work, the role will predominantly focus on raising awareness of transport resilience across the department, and identifying opportunities for external engagement to drive transport resilience improvement. This role is ideal for someone looking to take on a challenge and broaden their experience.
The key responsibilities of this role will include but are not limited to:
- Working with modal policy experts to raise awareness of transport resilience across the department through engagement sessions, teach-ins, and events.
- Working with colleagues across government to communicate DfT’s transport resilience offer.
- Supporting the development and subsequent implementation of the Transport Resilience Strategy.
- Project management of the associated Transport Resilience delivery plan and monitoring and developing key metrics.
- Coordinating initiatives aimed at increasing the resilience of the UK Transport system to current and future threats and hazards.
The Resilience Division is made up of five teams that work very closely together. Due to the nature of the work, it is sometimes necessary to reprioritise at short notice and work flexibly under matrix management.
The Resilience Division plays a crucial role in the Department’s emergency response mechanisms sitting alongside the Transport Security Operations Centre (TSOC). You therefore may be asked to participate in the Department’s response to a security or civil contingencies incident that exceeds the Operational Response team’s capacity.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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