Essex Resilience Forum Resilience Officer
Contract: 12-month FTC
Working Hours: 37 hrs per week
Grade: 9
Salary: £44,711 - £47,754 per annum
Location: Kelvedon Park
Closing Date: 1st December 2024
*We are open to discuss working arrangements including flexibility over hours and location
This role is a fixed-term opportunity. If the role is extended (or made permanent), the extension or permanent position may be offered to the successful applicant ahead of any further recruitment process.
The Essex Resilience Forum brings a wide variety of agencies together to manage major incidents. As well as planning for emergencies, training and exercising, it also ensures that the county remains as safe as it can be and that we work together to minimise the impact.
The Role
We have an opportunity within the Essex Resilience Forum (ERF) for a Resilience Officer. Your role would be to provide a responsive, efficient and effective service to the Essex Resilience Forum Team and partnership.
Providing support, advice and guidance, across Essex Resilience Forum (ERF) member agencies; ensuring Essex agency emergency plans are in place and supporting training, exercising and learning outcomes to support preparedness, response and recovery activities for emergency planning and incident response.
What You Will Be Working On
· Working within the Essex Resilience Forum team and reporting to the ERF Manager, this role will include but is not limited to:
· Engaging with ERF partners with the delivery of their obligations under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) and associated legislation.
· Support ERF partners within the multi-agency domain to enhance collaborative working through the Programme Delivery Group (PDG), delivering the objectives against the National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA), multi-agency emergency planning activities and training, exercising and lessons learned.
· Designated lead on key workstreams and special projects within the ERF providing guidance, delivery and support across the ERF.
· Develop, support and uphold the governance and assurance structures of the ERF Secretariat, to ensure multi-agency activities align with the ERF Strategy and the National Resilience Standards (NRS).
· Support with the monitoring and evaluation of the ERFs performance and compliance in line with changes to legislation and government led directives.
· Develop and build strong customer relationships with multi agency groups and partners.
· Develop, challenge and evaluate emergency plans by the identification of potential issues; delivering expertise knowledge and understanding of resilience issues; identifying areas for improvement and communicating and raising the awareness of these to the partner agencies.
What Are We Looking For?
The ideal candidate for this role will have experience of working both independently and as part of a dynamic team. They will also have experience of working within a Local Resilience Forum and multi-agency environment within the past 2 years supporting the delivery of project objectives and milestones. It is essential that they also have a good understanding of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA) and associated legislation, the emergency planning management, JESIP and Microsoft programmes. It is essential that this individual has excellent communication and interpersonal skills, to engage and influence individuals at different levels both internally and externally. The ideal candidate will be expected to support and chair meetings, delivering presentations and provide support and guidance to a variety of audiences.
The ideal candidate should hold a recognised qualification in Emergency Planning and Management or is working towards achieving this qualification.
How to apply
Internal candidates in either the development or resource pool –
If you meet the essential criteria listed above, you should express an interest for the role by clicking Apply in Cornerstone (recruitment portal).
Internal candidates who are not in either the development or resource pool –
You are required to submit a supporting statement of no more than 750 words detailing how you meet the essential criteria for the role via Cornerstone (recruitment portal). It is important that you provide as much evidence as possible as to how you meet the essential criteria of the person specification as this statement will be used to shortlist your application. Please ensure you have uploaded the supporting statement before clicking Apply.
External candidates
You will be required to submit a supporting statement of no more than 750 words that demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria of the Person Specification. You may submit this either as a word document, pdf, or an mp3 (voice note) or mp4 (video), however the word count must not exceed 750 words no matter which format you choose to present your application.
You may attach separate documents (such as qualifications, or a CV) should you wish. Your additional documents will be referred to in shortlisting to confirm eligibility (e.g., your current role and any existing qualifications).
Assessment and selection:
The assessment and selection approach will be:
Stage 1
Application & shortlisting (assessment of your supporting statement will be made against the essential criteria)
Stage 2
Presentation and panel interview.
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