Senior Resilience Specialist

1 month ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom City of Edinburgh Council Full time

Job Description

Corporate Services

Senior Resilience Specialist
Waverley Court

Salary: £50, - £60,
Hours: 36 per week

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a highly experienced and well-rounded resilience professional to join the Council's Corporate Resilience Team. The service’s main role is to plan for and respond to incidents to ensure a resilient Council and work with partners to contribute to a safe and secure city. You will work closely with the Resilience Manager and have responsibility for helping the Council meet its statutory obligations under resilience legislation.

You will: lead on the development and validation of our suite of resilience plans and protocols to ensure effective and efficient planning and response; manage our training and exercising strategies; develop corporate resilience methodologies; provide leadership on resilience matters; and provide support and expert advice across Council Services and Localities, including to senior officers.

You will work in partnership with a wide range of external agencies, including the Emergency and Health Services, and represent the service at multi-agency meetings to ensure the City of Edinburgh Council is able to prepare for, and respond to serious emergencies and incidents affecting the Council and the Edinburgh area. You will have in-depth, specialist knowledge of the Civil Contingencies Act and all other relevant national legislation / associated Codes of Practice associated with business continuity, emergency planning and community resilience, with extensive experience of their practical application in a public service context.

You will also have significant experience leading the resilience response to serious incidents. You will possess excellent communication and people skills and be able to motivate and develop a small team. Demonstrable skill in delivering varied and complex priorities with accuracy under pressured conditions is essential. Membership of a resilience professional body and a postgraduate degree or qualification (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline is expected.

This post is subject to a basic disclosure check.

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

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