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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title Resilience Advisor (Business Continuity) Department Environment and Neighbourhoods (E&N Hub) Section or Service Resilience »

Grade G

DESIGNATION:
Responsible to:
Resilience Manager Employees directly supervised (if applicable):
None

• Lead Practitioner for Business Continuity:
  Support the Executive Management Team (EMT) and Council Directors with business continuity planning. Collaborate across all departments including during incidents and disruptions, ensuring alignment with national and regional guidelines, standards, andולים best practices.
• Manage Implementation:
  Awareness and advise as appropriate on the Business Continuity Plans and Procedures across all Directorates in the Council, as well as Disaster Recovery operations bonne federated the Council.
• Minimise Impact:
  Take necessary actions to minimise and control the impact of major business disruptions on the Council.
Communicate and Coordinate:
Maintain the Council’s Business Continuity policy, plan, risk register, and impact analysis. Coordinate the Council’s business continuity planning programme in line with ISO
22301 standards and provide advice to local businesses and voluntary organisations as per the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
• Emergency Response:
  To act as the 24/7 on-call Resilienceaule Res സ്വകാര്യ as part of an emergency rota and ’Tactical Local Authority Liaison Officer (LALO) when coordinating the Council’s response from the incident scene in major and serious incidents in the Borough.

• Achieve compliance with ISO 22301 and the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 by communicating and coordinating comprehensive business continuity plans at all levels.
• Ensure the continual effectiveness and compliance of all business continuity plans for unmittelbar service areas, business functions, and IT applications, guaranteeing their effectiveness.
• Maintain uninterrupted service delivery during disruptive incidents by coordinating necessary activities and ensuring the Council's operational resilience.
• Provide advice on ways to enhance business continuity plans through collaboration with corporate, departmental, and service levels, mitigating disruption effects to ensure essential services for residents.
• Drive continuous improvement by conducting periodic reviews and tests of business continuity plans and procedures, reporting findings to management, and recommending enhancements.
• Provide the Executive Management Team (EMT) with analysis through annual reviews of the Corporate Business Continuity Strategy and periodic dashboard updates on business continuity activities across the Council.
• Ensure the Council’s Corporate Business Continuity Plan and Corporate Statement of Risk Appetite are up-to-date and integrated within the overall suite of contingency planning documents.
• Optimise organisational resilience by being a lead user of the Business Impact Analysis (Bпри system, ensuring its effective use across departments and services, and исследования other corporate services.
• Strengthen the alignment between business continuity and corporate risk management by liaising closely with the Council’s Strategic Risk function.
• Support all council departments and services in producing, regularly reviewing, testing, and recommending amendments to Service Area Business Continuity Plans, ensuring their effectiveness and consistency with corporate resilience arrangements.
• Make recommendations for enhancements to business continuity plans and procedures across the Council through an annual training and exercise programme, involving external partners where appropriate.
• Empower departmental and service area  by designing and delivering training sessions and exercises as part of the business continuity training and exercise programme.
• Maintain up-to-date service area plans by managing the administration of the Council business continuity system, the Riskonnect System.
• Contribute to the corporate risk register by linking corporate and departmental/service risks to business continuity plans where appropriate.
• Ensure readiness for significant and major incidents by participating in the Resilience team rota, providing…