Risk (Business Continuity) Officer
Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
31/01/2025
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 17/02/2025 09:00
Salary:
£35,235 - £37,938
Job Category:
Fire and Rescue (Other roles)
Employment Location:
Service Headquarters - Durham
Further Information
We are looking for a keen and motivated individual to join our Emergency Response and Resilience Planning team, to drive and deliver organisational resilience, primarily in the field of Business Continuity (BC), across all areas of the organisation.
This role will be considered for Job-Share.
What you'll do:
- Be part of the team responsible for organisational resilience and health & safety across CDDFRS; helping deliver strategies focused on protecting the organisation and maintaining delivery of service to the community.
- Support the Services organisational resilience, by promoting our BC strategy, policies and processes and maintaining BC records and systems.
- Manage and test our business continuity capabilities through exercising, identifying critical gaps in response capability and close them.
- Strive for continuous improvement, challenging and enhancing existing resilience arrangements, through innovative and creative thinking and consideration of methods in delivery and building capability.
- Develop and manage relationships and facilitate collaborative and clear ways of working with key stakeholders.
What you'll bring:
- No specific qualifications are essential, but you will be a highly motivated individual with a willingness to develop your Business Continuity planning and exercising skills.
- Willingness to undertake other courses and development that might require travel and short periods away.
- An outgoing personality with excellent programme management and planning skills.
- An understanding of why resilience is essential to an emergency service and the value it adds, its relationship with health & safety and, emergency planning.
- Confidence in challenging the norm, ensuring standards are fit for purpose and work for the organisation.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface at all levels; confident, capable, and credible in front of senior managers.
- You work effectively in a team environment, building productive partnerships with colleagues, and stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
- An ability to manage several workstreams simultaneously, using relevant controls and measures.
- A flexible approach, with an ability to adapt your style and methods to get the best out of people, to successfully deliver.
- The drive to work in a fast-paced corporate environment, where there is an ethos of change, complexity, and multi-faceted demands.
The Rewards:
CDDFRS is a small and high performing Fire and Rescue Service with a close-knit team of corporate support functions, in addition to our emergency response roles. Other rewards commensurate with a role in one of the country’s most forward-thinking FRS are:
- Free on-site gym
- Hybrid and flexible working options
- Access to Blue light discount schemes
- Training and Development opportunities to bring the right person up to speed with all relevant qualifications
- 27 days annual leave rising to 32 days after 5 years (full time equivalent, part-time roles will be pro-rata)
- Car parking
- Pension scheme
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Jon Singleton, Emergency Response & Resilience Manager at jon.singleton@ddfire.gov.uk
All applications must be made on the Services corporate application form which is available via northeastjobs.org.uk.
County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service aims to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from under-represented groups.
Application details are available in large type, Braille, audio tape and via email. A Minicom facility is available on 0191 3847840. Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria are guaranteed an interview.
County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and all employees must share this commitment.
Fire & Rescue Authority roles are listed in Schedule 1 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order and as such it is our policy to require all applicants and employees to disclose any criminal convictions (both spent and unspent) including driving offences, cautions and/or reprimands. Information provided will be treated as strictly confidential and will be considered only in relation to the appointment for which you are applying or in which you work (please refer to the guidance notes www.gov.uk/guidance/rehabilitation-periods for more information).
Legislative change enables Fire and Rescue Services to be eligible for a Standard level Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for employees of the Service, including volunteers. Applicants are required to inform us of any pending or incomplete investigations of a safeguarding nature that are ongoing, or that arise during periods of application and pre-employment. A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals, and example scenarios can be found here www.gov.uk
Our Fire and Rescue Authority are committed to the rehabilitation of offenders, as such, any risk assessments used for positive disclosures will incorporate both a reasonable and proportionate response.
Please note
This job is closed for applications.