Business Continuity, Resilience and Crisis

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Public Sector Resourcing Full time

**Business Continuity, Resilience and Crisis Management Advisor - Inside IR35**

**Contract Term: 6months***

**Contracting Authority: UK Export Finance**

**Location: Hybrid - London 1 day a week**

**As a Business Continuity, Resilience and Crisis Management Advisor your main responsibilities would be to**:

- Lead the team to develop and continuously improve Business Continuity strategy and delivery in order to build resilience within UKEF.
- Lead the development of Business Continuity capability across UKEF through the production and maintenance of effective Business Continuity policies, plans and guidance.
- Oversee Engagement with all aspects of the Change community to ensure Business Continuity requirements are represented at all stages of a Project or Programme lifecycle from concept to delivery.
- Ensure that effective horizon scanning activity is undertaken, both internally and externally, in order to ensure that threats, risks and proposed business changes affecting Business Continuity delivery are identified. Develop mitigation strategies to build resilience to any threats identified.
- Maintain an incident management process for all disruptions across UKEF. Provide the required support, communication and escalation to all relevant stakeholders during the normal working day and outside of business hours. Facilitate post-disruption activities to ensure that events are fully understood and lessons are learnt effectively.
- Identify and deliver improvements and updated guidance products, including MI analysis as necessary to build resilience.
- Support the management and coordination of an enhanced Crisis and Incident Response function by leveraging specialist expertise from across UKEF (via virtual team arrangements) to support wider Government priorities in response to civil contingencies risks and issues.
- Be responsible for consistent messaging regarding all departmental responsibilities and provide updates for senior officials, Directors and Ministers. Providing professional, accurate and factual communications and briefing for senior officials which may appear in the public domain.
- Work collaboratively with a wide range of Service Delivery and Corporate business stakeholders through a business partnering model, to embed Business Continuity principles, identify opportunities to streamline existing processes and promote a self
- service principle across UKEF business areas.
- Lead activity to ensure the completion of Business Impact Analysis (BIA) for key products and services. Ensure that threats and risks are identified, adequately controlled and mitigated against, leading to improved resilience within UKEF.
- Manage assurance and validation activities across products, services and sites through a multi-channel approach in order to build resilience across UKEF. Undertake assurance of supplier and strategic partner BC plans and arrangements.
- Engage with key stakeholders across UKEF digital transformation initiatives to ensure that digital risks have been identified and assessed for their potential impacts on UKEF business priorities and that appropriate risk mitigations, such as BC contingencies and strategies, are developed and implemented.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across government to promote closer working, improve Business Continuity policies, explore and exploit opportunities for joined up working and sharing of best practice across Government to ensure standards are consistent.
- Drive and develop an exercising agenda to validate Business Continuity arrangements and build knowledge across UKEF. Steer and guide senior managers to act on the outcomes and lessons learnt from exercises to improve the robustness of Business Continuity planning and ensuring that exercises support the improved resilience of UKEF business delivery.

**You’ll have relevant experience in**:

- Holding Membership of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) certification within 3 years.
- Leading - the ability to lead and support people through cultural change/transformation. Working as part of a high performing team ensuring delivery in line with the vision.
- Stakeholder engagement - evidence of identifying key stakeholders and forging strong relationships to deliver business objectives and outcomes, using appropriate channels, to ensure all those impacted by the change are engaged, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests.
- Effective Planning - showing the ability to define the fundamental components of a project in terms of its scope, deliverables, time scales, resource requirements and budget. Plus the ability to manage risks and issues including those that are strategic and politically sensitive, ensuring regular reporting and escalation as appropriate providing a consolidated overview of a project
- Motivator - you are a highly driven and capable self-motivated professional, who has the ability to motivate others and drive forward change and large projects.
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