Policy Officer: Emergency Preparedness and Response - London, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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2 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £42,208
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Senior Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Type of role:
  • Policy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
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  • LondonAbout the job

Job summary:

The CRCU is a newly established, permanent, cross-cutting team, resourced to deliver in two key areas for the department:


  • Preparing for emergencies: proactively
    preparing the department to respond to threats and hazards, putting in place departmental arrangements for responding to incidents, ready for activation; and
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Emergency response:holding the key coordinating role across DLUHC when a response requires cross-departmental activity, managing the 'GOLD' structure and situational reporting when required.

Key priorities for CRCU for both these areas are below.


Building DLUHC-wide resilience (preparedness)


CRCU reports to the Director of Resilience and Recovery, but will form strategic links out across the department, particularly, where these are undeveloped.


  • CRCU will work with existing resilience teams to proactively
    scan the horizon for threats and hazards where the wider department hold an interest and in case of an incident, might be called upon.
  • CRCU will maintain an overview and engagement with individual
    risk playbooks, testing and exercising.
  • CRCU will
    engage with teams, including ALB sponsorship teams, that might hold relevant interests across DLUHC and build awareness of their responsibilities in time of crisis.

Coordinating the department's response to emergencies (response)

  • CRCU will hold the key coordinating role across DLUHC, holding a bird'seye view, to identify opportunities to strengthen our intelligence, data, policy or protocol including the need for a policy decision.
  • CRCU will maintain a departmental
    emergency response plan, setting out
    departmental arrangements for responding to a range of crisis events, including concurrency and an exit strategy. CRCU will also maintain these documents, so they are ready for activation at short notice.
  • CRCU will support the SRO as the key interface with Ministers and the Executive Team by commissioning high quality
    briefing.
  • CRCU will hold overall ownership of the
    departmental SitRep (Situational Report) and
    the tracking of key strategic actions and the management and secretariat of the key crosscutting meetings.

Job description:


  • This SEO role will play a vital part in supporting CRCU to action its longerterm priorities as outlined above.
  • You will lead on the development of a programme of training and exercising for resiliencefocused staff across DLUHC, to ensure all relevant teams are wellprepared heading into future emergency response scenarios
  • You will work closely with the People, Capability and Change (PC&C) Directorate to ensure DLUHC has appropriate emergency staffing plans in place
  • You will support CRCU in an emergency response by servicing the GOLD Coordination Group to oversee the strategic direction of the response, build situational awareness, and provide briefing for senior officials and ministers.
  • You will also help to influence CRCU's longerterm work on preparedness and response, supporting the team to develop 'business as usual' structures.

Person specification:


Essential:

  • Excellent organisational skills and the ability to meet strict deadlines.
  • The ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders across the department, building strong relationships to allow joint delivery.
  • The ability to demonstrate inclusive leadership and engage a team to deliver improved outcomes and seek new ways of working.
  • The ability to communicate complex information succinctly, clearly and with insight.

Desirable:

  • Experience of working in a coordination or resilience role.
  • Experience of engaging with data and analysis work.

Benefits:


  • Alongside your salary of £42,208, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £11,400 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
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