Resilience Officer

What will you be doing?

Do you want to help plan for and respond to emergencies across Kent? Are you confident working under pressure and making decisions when it matters most? Do you enjoy working with partners to improve resilience and preparedness?

We’re looking for someone with experience of working in a public sector or emergency planning environment who can quickly settle in and start making a positive impact.

You’ll be confident working across a complex environment, helping to shape and deliver resilience activity both within Kent County Council (KCC) and with multi-agency partners. You’ll understand how different services connect, and how decisions in one area can affect others, helping to make sure everything we do supports KCC’s responsibilities and wider partnership working.

You’ll be a skilled communicator, comfortable working with a wide range of people, and confident presenting information clearly to different audiences, including senior leaders.

You’ll build strong working relationships with colleagues, partners and stakeholders, and feel comfortable working with a range of people. A big part of the role is bringing people together, working through challenges, and helping to move things forward in a practical and collaborative way.

As a Resilience Officer, you’ll also support and lead key areas of work such as emergency planning, business continuity and training and exercises. Alongside this, you’ll help us learn from incidents and continuously improve how we prepare and respond to emergencies.

You should be comfortable working within governance and legislative frameworks, and able to turn complex information into clear, straightforward advice, reports and briefings.

As part of the role, you’ll be involved in responding to incidents, including taking part in the 24/7 duty rota. At times, you may need to take a leading role, staying calm under pressure and making effective decisions during emergencies and helping to coordinate response activities.

We’re looking for someone who enjoys solving problems, working with others, and bringing clarity to complex situations, while taking a practical, hands-on approach to improving resilience across the organisation.

In this role, you will:

• Provide advice and guidance on emergency planning and business continuity to support services across KCC.
• Support the development, delivery and review of plans, policies,training and exercises
• Work closely with colleagues and partners to improve preparedness,response and recovery arrangements
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal services and multi-agency partners
• Lead and contribute to projects and initiatives that improve resilience and ways of working
• Support responses to emergencies,incidents and planned events, including participation in the duty rota
• Design and deliver training and exercising activities, capturing lessons learned and identifying improvements
• Represent KCC at meetings, working groups and partnership forums
• Carry out assurance and audit activities to ensure plans are effective and up to date
• Prepare clear briefings,reports and presentations to support decision-making
• Contribute to a customer-focused,professional and supportive service

The role is based in Maidstone, with flexible and hybrid working arrangements in place. This role involves occasional travel to attend and support training activities and exercises and multi-agency working.

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

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About you

For further information on this role please contact:

Casey Holland

Tel: 03000 413390

E-mail: casey.holland@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 soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.