Business Continuity Adviser
5 months ago
**Details**:
**Reference number**:
- 347114**Salary**:
- £40,025- Leeds, Reading & Burnley: £40,025 London: £44,043- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:
- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:
- Permanent
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:
- This role is being advertised on a permanent basis. If preferable, Loan or Secondment options will also be available for existing Civil Servants (Loan) and applicants from accredited NDPBs or any other employer (Secondment).**Business area**:
- DHSC - Group Operations - Workspace, Information, Security & Technology**Type of role**:
- Business Management and Improvement
- Security**Working pattern**:
- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:
- 1Contents
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About the job
**Benefits**:
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Location
- Burnley, Leeds, London, ReadingAbout the job
**Job summary**:
In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose - to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.
DHSC Security is adapting to support current and future requirements. This is a great opportunity to join a major government department at a critical time. You will play an important role in delivering organisational resilience and be a member of the Government Security Profession, which offers opportunities to develop your career that simply cannot be found anywhere else.
We are looking for people with experience in business continuity management or organisational resilience who can work collaboratively within DHSC and across government. Your role will be to help the department anticipate, prepare for, respond and adapt to incremental change and disruptions in order to survive and prosper.
If you're keen to help shape the future and improve organisation resilience, thrive in a demanding environment with the skills and experience required, then DHSC is keen to hear from you.
**Job description**:
Deliver an effective Business Continuity Management programme.
- Support business units in the embedding, analysis, design, implementation and validation of business continuity management-related initiatives, policies, programmes and services.
- Review and validate business continuity plans through exercising and testing.
- Maintain an accurate assessment of threat, risk and organisational readiness, including risk owners and lines of accountability.
- Co-ordinate the identification and documentation of business continuity risks and issues, and act as an escalation point for mitigation.
- Support seniors to deliver the department’s incident and crisis management response through a corporate central service.
- Join an on-call duty officer rota to provide an out-of-hours incident management response.
- The role may require line management responsibilities which will need demonstrable support for career development, diversity and inclusion.
- Maintain a flexible approach to work and take on other business continuity, resilience and security workstreams as required.
**Person specification**:
You will be comfortable engaging with and influencing stakeholders at all grades and be able to robustly challenge business continuity behaviours or actions where necessary.
You will develop, maintain, and improve functions to map, assess and improve the maturity of the Business Continuity Management culture within DHSC.
You will look to support the Head of Organisational Resilience in developing a robust Business Continuity Management culture within DHSC and ensuring continuous improvement.
You will continue to upskill and develop your Business Continuity knowledge using materials and access from recognised specialists such as the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) and UK Government Security.
This role requires participation in an out-of-hours duty roster and additional pay is provided for this.
**Key skills and experience required for the role**
- You should have experience of building a network of colleagues and contacts to achieve progress on departmental objectives and shared interests and support cross-departmental/cross-government professional communities.
- You should be able to demonstrate that you are able to work with mínimal direction and have the ability to make risk-based decisions based on the evidence available to you at the time.
- You should have experience of designing and delivering presentations in a number of formats, to audiences of varying sizes and seniority.
- You must be able to show evidence that you are organised and can run a number of areas of work concurrently.
- Demonstrate prior experience within a resilience or business continuity role.
**Desirable**:
- The ability to build an understanding of the strategic dr
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