Closing Date: 17/02/2025
36 Hours a week
At least 2 years’ experience of as a business resilience practitioner in a medium to large organisation
Initial 3-month placement with the option to extend to 6-month fixed term placement.
Haringey Council are looking to recruit an Interim Business Continuity Programme Manager to cover a current vacancy due to shared parental leave.
The role reports directly into the Emergency Planning and Resilience Manager.
The post-holder plays a key role in maintaining the resilience of Haringey, ensuring that essential Council services can continue to be delivered to local communities. They will lead the Council’s Business Continuity Programme and take lead responsibility for resilience assurance reporting both internally and to the London level.
The role is hybrid with the expectation that the candidate will spend at least 2 days a week in the office.
The successful candidate must have:
•At least 2 years’ experience of as a business resilience practitioner in a medium to large organisation
•Evidence of qualifications or professional development in business continuity management
•Detailed and thorough knowledge of business continuity standard, good practice guidelines and the confidence to demonstrate professional leadership
•Experience of leading/managing staff and project teams.
Key Responsibilities
1.To be the lead practitioner for business resilience, maintaining a robust business continuity management programme to ensure continued improvement across the Council that reflects national guidance, professional standards, good practice guidelines and evidence.
2.To lead, provide oversight and manage governance arrangements supporting business continuity, including the Corporate Business Continuity Policy, reporting to senior officer and Member boards and forums to ensure an ongoing commitment to resilience.
3.To develop and take ownership of the Business Continuity Risk Register, working collaboratively with Services across the organisation to communicate and identify key risks, and to facilitate the resilience-building activities to provide mitigations.
4.To lead the annual business impact analysis process, generating in-depth understanding and insights into the vulnerabilities and resilience of Haringey and reporting annually on key findings.
5.To maintain the corporate business continuity plan, ensuring alignment with organisational change, and the Borough Plan Priorities.
6.To work collaboratively across the organisation, to develop, specify and deliver a programme of organisational development activities designed to building resilience in the organisation, including communications activity, training, and a programme of testing, and exercising to validate business continuity plans on an agreed cycle.
7.To be the lead advisor, providing subject matter expertise, advice, and support to Heads of Service and Senior Managers to improve the resilience of their Service.
8.To play a leading role in building cyber resilience, working closely with Digital Services and Audit and Risk Management, to include the commissioning and development of cyber awareness training, workshops, and exercises
9.To lead on resilience assurance activities for the Council, including reporting on Resilience Standards for London, business continuity assurance, and internal governance