Kcc Resilience Officer

Purpose of the Job:

The role is key to ensuring the County is resilient to and prepared for emergencies and planned events, and the County Council’s emergency and business continuity planning, response and recovery is effective.

The postholder will work as part of a professional team responsible for the co-ordination, development and delivery of the County Council’s emergency planning, business continuity and 24/7 Duty Emergency Planning Officer arrangements in compliance with the Civil Contingencies Act and other relevant legislation and regulation.

Main duties and responsibilities:

1. Provide specialist advice and guidance to inform corporate emergency planning and business continuity encompassing risk assessment, response and recovery to ensure KCC is able to meet it obligations for any emergency.

2. Facilitate development and delivery of the County Council’s emergency planning and business continuity arrangements in compliance with relevant legislation and regulation, encompassing planning, training, exercising, response, recovery and participation in single and multi-agency command and control.

3. Develop strong customer relationships both corporately and with external partners, influencing decision makers through the understanding of how resilience issues impact across KCC and partner organisations.

4. Responsible for stimulating an environment for innovation with opportunities to plan new interventions that will drive innovation, proactively embracing new ways of working. Consistently looking at the current way of working to see how this can be improved. Develop and lead specific resilience projects which will include the setting of project plans, the management of project risks and issues, the communication of regular progress reports to managers and stakeholders, and the management of project risks / issues.

5. To respond effectively and efficiently to emergencies, planned events and business continuity disruptions, including supporting affected individuals, communities and KCC services.

6. Design deliver, and lead training courses & exercises, encompassing compliance & community resilience, business continuity & organisational resilience, conducting debriefs and identifying areas for improvement, to improve future ways of working.

7. Represent KCC at local, regional, and (where appropriate) national stakeholder meetings to ensure advocacy for KCC services, duties and service users.

8. Advise the KCC Cross Directorate Resilience Forum, Directorate Resilience Groups and other relevant standing, and task and finish, groups, delivering appropriate resilience support and advice during business continuity incidents and other emergencies affecting KCC.

9. Undertake emergency planning and business continuity management audits to ensure KCC is able to respond and effectively implement continuity plans when necessary.

10.Develop and oversee briefings and reports, undertaking research and analysis, maintaining resilience data sets to inform KCC planning.

11.Responsible for delivering a customer-centric approach and displaying customer focused, professional and empathetic behaviour. Provide excellent service putting the customer at the heart of every aspect of the work.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Adam Feacey - 03000 412734 - adam.feacey@kent.gov.uk

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.