Local Resilience Forum -Tactical Officer. 2 Year Fixed Term Contract/Secondment

West Midlands Conurbation (WMC) hosts the Local Resilience Forum (LRF) which is a multi-agency partnership with representatives from all 7 Unitary Local Authorities, Emergency Services, NHS, Environment Agency and wider sectors such as Military, Voluntary, Transport and private sectors to name a few. The LRF supports the preparedness agenda by delivering to its core statutory responsibilities of coordination and information sharing duties and supports the wider resilience sectors.
WMC LRF is expanding its remit under the developments of the Integrated Review. The LRF will deliver to Government in relation to existing and emerging legislative requirements, steering the developing National Resilience Strategy and will shape the future of WMC LRF. In addition, the local focus of WMC will remain under its responsibilities to support individual agency requirements under the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) respectively.
The role of the LRF Officer is to provide support to the LRF coordinator and Strategic Manager, to support the progression of delivery plans, training, exercising, learning through engagement with sub-group leads within the LRF partnership.
The LRF Officer will be accountable and responsible to the LRF Co-ordinator
Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in planning, exercising, learning and risk assessments for the Resilience Delivery cycles
• Provide logistical support to all sub-groups, national reporting's and key LRF meeting schedules
• Ability to build professional relationships across sectors at all levels of the organisations
• Ability to work to individual demands and wider delivery schedule
• Demonstrated the ability to communicate well with good influential and negotiating skills to overcome challenges
• Flexible approach to on call to support LRF activation

Essential Skills:

• Demonstrable experience working within the field of resilience
• Experience of work involving close liaison between internal and external contacts, including professional advisers and representatives of other public and statutory organisations.
• Experience of analysing and interpreting data and information.
• Experienced in working within an office environment with a responsibility for working with self-discipline and initiative.
• Proven ability to work with people at all levels of an organisation.
• Must have the capability to travel to different locations across the WMC and undertake all assignments in a timely manner. Due to the requirement to work flexible, unsocial hours and personal safety for lone working; public transport may not be available or suitable at these times. For this reason a full driving license is essential.
• Experienced in determining and evaluating project risk
• Experience of working within a multi-agency environment with a focus on resilience, business continuity, training and exercising and/or emergency planning.
• Proven ability to progress multiple work assignments with minimal supervision.
• IT literate, including Microsoft Packages, Resilience Direct and other IT software.
• Proven ability to collate information and produce clear and concise reports.
• An ability to plan and organise both person and multi-agency team timetables within an overall project, working in partnership to agree aims and objectives
• Proven communication and interpersonal skills.

Desirable Skills:

• Professional qualification in Emergency Planning or other related discipline
• JESIP accredited
• EPC accreditation within the field of resilience (e.g. BC, Risk Assessment, EP etc.)
• Proven ability to analyse external partner requirements and prioritise them in line with a range of competing challenges.
• Experience of influencing and stakeholder management

Vetting: Successful applicants will be required to pass Management Vetting and Security Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.
Medical: Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.
Hours of Work and Flexibility: 0900-1700 (flexibility to meet demand)
Location: Main hub will be: C3, Park Lane, Aston, Birmingham, B6 5DD. Fully Agile - element of working in stakeholder locations e.g. Local Authority offices, WMFS.
Point Of Contact: steve.vincent@westmidlands.police.uk
Interviews: 11th & 12th June 2024- subject to change
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