Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker - 1 day in office

Salary: £38,700 - £41,373 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 30th April 2025

Interview Date(s): 21st May 2025

The LLR (Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland) Resilience Partnership is committed to improving the emergency preparedness, resilience, and response of Local Authorities in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland through collaborative planning, effective coordination, and community engagement.

We work closely with local authorities, emergency services, health organisations, and various stakeholders to ensure robust preparation, response, and recovery plans are in place for emergencies and disruptive events.

Job Purpose: The Senior Resilience Officer plays a critical role in coordinating and facilitating various workstreams that assist local authorities in discharging their duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of LLR Resilience Officers
• Assisting in the coordination of the LLR Resilience Partnership team operational response to civil emergencies including acting as a tactical advisor to senior council officers across the partnership.
• In the absence of an LLR Resilience Manager manage and lead the operational response to civil emergencies.
• Coordinate the development and delivery of emergency planning, response and recovery arrangements ensuring they meet the statutory responsibilities of the LLR Resilience Partners,
• Fostering and maintaining effective internal and external relationships with key partners
• Coordinating an effective training and exercise programme
• Advise and support councils to establish, develop and maintain effective resilience and business continuity arrangements

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• A degree in emergency planning, risk management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience in resilience, business continuity, or emergency planning, preferably within a multi-agency or public sector environment.
• Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
• In-depth knowledge of relevant legislation, standards, and best practices in resilience and business continuity.
• Previous experience in a senior or supervisory role within a resilience or emergency planning context.
• Experience in delivering training and exercises related to resilience and business continuity.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Helen Hardy, Resilience and Business Continuity Manager

Telephone: 0116 305 2361

Email: helen.hardy@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

Our Recruitment Process
Our Organisational Values
Our Employee Benefits
Working for Us

Leicestershire County Council provides public services including education, social services, highways, waste disposal, libraries, registration, planning and trading standards across Leicestershire.