Policy Officer: Emergency Preparedness and Response

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 338203**Salary**:

- £35,400-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- A Local Government & Public Services Grouping**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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**Job summary**:
This HEO role will play a vital part in supporting CRCU to action its longer-term priorities as outlined above. This includes:

- Leading on the strategic direction and regular running of the department’s Director General chaired Resilience Board and Deputy Director chaired Resilience Working Group.
- Ensuring the Board meets the strategic aims of our senior stakeholders.
- Reviewing the quality of all papers sent up to the Board, and drafting key products such as chairs briefs, minutes and Board slide packs.
- Forming excellent working relationships with teams across the department, including private offices, to ensure the work of the Resilience Board and Working Group meets the CRCU’s strategic aims.
- Supporting CRCU in an emergency response by servicing the GOLD Coordination Group to oversee the strategic direction of the response, build situational awareness, and provide briefing for senior officials and ministers.
- Influencing CRCU’s longer-term work on preparedness and response, supporting the team to develop ‘business as usual’ structures.

**Job description**:
The Central Response Coordination Unit (CRCU) is a cross-cutting coordination team, set up in the wake of the department’s need to respond to major cross-cutting incidents (e.g. Grenfell, COVID-19, Afghanistan evacuations), and is resourced to deliver in two key areas for the department:

- **Preparedness**: preparing the department to respond to threats and hazards (e.g. pandemic preparedness, evacuation of British Nationals, major building failure), putting in place departmental arrangements for responding to incidents ready for activation; and
- ** Response**:holding the key central coordinating role across DLUHC, managing the 'GOLD' senior meeting structure, situational reporting for the department, preparing ministerial and senior official briefing for COBR meetings etc.

Key priorities for CRCU:
**Building DLUHC-wide resilience (preparedness)**
- CRCU reports to the Director of Resilience and Recovery but forms strategic links across the department.
- CRCU works with existing resilience teams and the Cabinet Office/COBR unit to proactively **scan the horizon** for threats and hazards where the wider department hold an interest.
- CRCU maintains an overview and engagement with individual** risk playbooks,** testing and exercising with relevant policy teams.
- CRCU **engages with teams**, that might hold relevant interests across DLUHC and build awareness of their responsibilities in time of crisis.
- CRCU runs the secretariat for the departmental governance of resilience and preparedness, including a senior Resilience Board and Resilience Working Group.

**Coordinating cross-departmental activity (response)**
- CRCU maintains a central **concept of operations**, outlining departmental arrangements for responding to a range of crisis events.
- CRCU will **activate** the concept of operations, bringing in the right people and teams from across DLUHC at the right time, coordinating activity of DLUHC policy teams with wider resilience functions during response to a crisis.
- CRCU holds the key coordinating role across DLUHC, holding a bird’s-eye view, to identify opportunities to strengthen our intelligence, data, policy or protocol including advising ministers and seniors of the need for a policy decision.
- CRCU will support the Response Director as the key interface with Ministers and the Executive Team by commissioning and drafting high quality **briefing **for a range of senior and ministerial meetings both internal and cross-government.
- CRCU will hold overall ownership of the **departmental SitRep (Situational Report) **and** **the tracking of key strategic actions and the management and secretariat of the key cross-cutting meetings. This ensures that seniors and ministers have access to a clear and up to date information picture as the response progresses.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**:

- Excellent organisational skills, the ability to work independently and the ability to meet strict deadlines.
- The ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders across the department, building strong and honest relationships to allow joint delivery.
- The ability to demonstrate inclusive leadership and engage a team to deliver improved outcomes and seek new ways of working.
- The ability to communicate complex information succinctly, clearly and with insight.

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