What's involved with this role: Interim Emergency Planning & Business Continuity Review Project Post Job Ref: Rochdale 0009 7FB3 / 1 Pay Rate: Up to £27.45 per hour PAYE depending on experience Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months City: Rochdale Hybrid working The successful candidate will analyse, develop and implement recommendations from the benchmarked emergency planning and business continuity resource across GM local authorities. Key Responsibilities: Prepare and present a recommendations report and suggested action plan. Update RBC multi-agency and local response and recovery plans. Identify future emergency planning improvements. Review RBCs business continuity plans across all Directorates. Assist Directorate Business Continuity leads to update their Directorate Business Continuity Plans. Prepare a RBC council wide Business Continuity prioritisation for ICT arrangements and systems restoration. Plan and deliver a multi- directorate emergency planning and business continuity exercises. Implement actions from the review of RBC’s emergency response preparedness. Qualifications: A degree and / or relevant professional qualification or demonstrably similar skills evidence relevant to the requirements of the post. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Experience of working within a local authority or large multi-disciplinary organisation Extensive experience of interpreting and applying emergency planning legislation and policy. Extensive experience of undertaking research, reviews and audits with a thorough understanding of research validity. Extensive experience of reviewing and analysing complex data using a variety of methodologies, and formulating appropriate and proportionate recommendations. Political awareness, with previous experience of working in a politicised environment. Proven ability to develop and maintain constructive and effective working relationships with senior managers, colleagues, partners and representatives from other agencies; particularly in situations requiring robust debate and challenge. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please