Head of Maritime Resilience

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Department for Transport Full time

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

- 349126**Salary**:

- £51,997- National - £51,997 - £57,677 London - £56,844 - £62,244.**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DFT - Aviation, Maritime and Security Group (AMS) - Maritime**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery
- Policy
- Risk Management**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, Leeds, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Can you effectively build and maintain relationships with various stakeholders?

Are you a effective leader who is confident in motivating a team to get the best out of everyone?

Have you got experience of collaborating and working with senior stakeholders?

If so, then this is the perfect role for you

**Job description**:
The Maritime People, Resilience, Safety and Sponsorship Division has an exciting opportunity to head up our Maritime Resilience team. This is a high-profile and fast-paced role for a self-starter that provides the opportunity to work on important maritime resilience issues across Government, with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and with industry stakeholders in the UK and internationally.

The post holder will have the opportunity to engage with the full breadth of the maritime and resilience sectors in order to develop and deliver DfT’s maritime resilience programme, ensuring that contingency planning, data and technology are at the heart of protecting the UK’s ports and maritime critical national infrastructure.

Resilience and contingency planning is an essential capability for the UK. It ensures continued operations in times of crisis at our critical national infrastructure (CNI) and other major ports; for example, in response to extreme weather, industrial action and geopolitical events.

This is a linchpin post in the Maritime Directorate, and you will be at the centre of a transformational agenda, leading resilience policy development to ensure that our programme meets the needs of the changing maritime resilience landscape.

**_ Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: _**
- Significantly grow the Government’s maritime resilience capability to meet the high expectations of our Secretary of State by developing and embedding enhanced maritime engagement, monitoring and reporting tools.
- Lead DfT’s response to maritime incidents, including disruption at major ports or vessel incidents. This will necessitate close working with a range of public and private agencies and organisations, including port and vessel operators, the MCA and the Kent Resilience Forum, amongst others.
- Build deep relationships and shared understanding of our respective operational and resilience objectives with key players across the maritime sector, including ports, freight and passenger vessel operators and trade bodies.
- Have leadership responsibility across Maritime, being a visible member of the management team and having line-management responsibility, including of a cohort of out-of-hours resilience coordinators.

For more information, please see the attached Role Profile.

**Person specification**:
**About you**

To thrive in this role, you will
- Be able to build strong and productive relationships with senior industry colleagues and stakeholders.
- Hold experience of working with Ministers and/or senior executives to understand their requirements to improve service delivery.
- Possess experience of working in an operational delivery or resilience environment.

**Additional information**

A minimum of 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance. This role will also allow opportunities for international travel.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Leadership
- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture

**Benefits**:
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.**How to apply**
- Experience of building strong and productive relationships with senior industry colleagues and stakeholders.
- Experience of working with Ministers and/or senior executives to understand their requirements to improve service delivery.
- Experience of working in an opera



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