Resilience Officer (Business Continuity)

Job Introduction

About Us

We are a team of six based at Fire Service HQ in Kidlington, we work from this office at least two days per week and additionally travel to meetings and training in other locations around the Thames Valley. The team handle a complex workload, managing a wide variety of workstreams and responses to incidents across several organisations both in and out of normal working hours. We work to ensure compliance against several statutory legislations with the whole team supporting planning, training and exercising across all areas. Our purpose is to protect our community, reduce harm and save lives.

Our mission is to enhance community resilience through robust, data-driven resilience planning.  Combining our expertise with evidence-based strategies, we will help our communities build resilience and respond effectively to emergencies.

About the Role

To be successful in the role, you need to have previous experience of working in a Business Continuity environment. This role will include managing the Business Continuity Management for the County Council as well as other planning workstreams. This role includes participating in the on-call rota once competent. This is a busy role with many competing demands. This role will involve meeting and working with a variety of staff and partners and attending and Chairing a number of meetings both within the county and in neighbouring counties.

Our key team priorities are:

• Empowering communities with the knowledge and tools to prepare for and recover from incidents and emergencies.
• Improve our data-driven insights for decision-making and emergency response.
• Continuously improving through innovation, learning, and best practice.
• Provide trusted resilience services to Oxfordshire County Council and further develop the paid service to local authority partners
• Support & Coordinate OCCs response 24/7 to incidents and emergencies with other Cat 1, Cat 2 partners other stakeholders

About you

You should have the ability to work independently and be able to prioritise competing demands and pressures to meet the deadlines. Excellent communication, attention to detail, numeracy and literacy skills including ability to gather and compile information in various formats, analyse and presenting the information in a clear way is essential for this role. You should have strong business continuity skills with the ability to use both business systems and Microsoft applications effectively.

Ideally you will be CBCI qualified and familiar with the Good Practice Guidelines and applying these across a large organisation. You should be able to work within a team and have flexibility to adapt to challenging incidents that may disrupt planned work and may require out of hours working. You must be able to drive and live within an hour of Oxfordshire. Ideally you will have some experience of emergency planning or working within a Category 1 organisation.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact - Carol MacKay, Resilience Manager carol.mackay@oxfordshire.gov.uk 

Rewards and benefits

• Culture of flexible working 
• Technology to support agile working where role permits
• 30 day’s holiday p.a. plus bank holidays 
• Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support
• Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
• Great learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing development.

Our commitment to:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

At Oxfordshire County Council we are proud of our diverse workforce. Everyone is accepted for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or on maternity or family leave. We have a number of staff network groups which provide peer support, education and safe spaces for all.

Our commitment to:
Guaranteed Interview Schemes

As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job. We also guarantee interviews to care leavers who have completed further education and who meet the essential criteria for the job. For those leaving care without any further education, we guarantee an interview for our apprenticeships. We are also committed to helping and supporting those transitioning from HM Armed Forces to civilian life and guarantee an interview for those demonstrating the essential criteria for the role, within three years of leaving the service.

Our commitment to:
Safeguarding

Oxfordshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect these commitments.

Our commitment to:
Flexible Working

We are open to discussions about flexible working, which can include flexi-time, full time and part time working, job sharing, nine-day fortnights and annualised hours, depending on the requirements of the role and the service.

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