Red Resilience Advisor - 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:

- £40,390- £40,390 (London)
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Senior Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • A Local Government & Public Services Grouping Resilience & Recovery
    Type of role:
  • Policy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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Job summary:

The Resilience and Emergencies Division (RED) in DLUHC is looking to recruit a Resilience Advisor covering London and Southeast England;
- working closely with the London Strategic Resilience Advisor (SRA) to support London Local Resilience Forum (LRF) partners and cross-government colleagues to provide advice, support and challenge,
- working flexibly across the region with other SRAs in the hub to build regional capacity,


Job description:


Key Responsibilities

1.
Relationship Management

  • You will build effective relationships with partners in London and across Government.

2

Project Delivery:


  • You will support delivery of bespoke projects to support London resilience and regional resilience in the Southeast.
3.
Representing Government in local meetings

  • You will be representing DLUHC and wider UK Government when attending meetings with local partners.

4. Planning and risk management

  • You will work with the London SRA to support the London LRF in their planning for and risk management of civil contingencies.

5.
Promotion of Local Resilience Forums

  • You will work collaboratively across RED, DLUHC and wider UK Government to promote wider resilience activities and working with LRFs to enhance collaboration and cooperation.

6.
Capabilities

  • You will support cross cutting work to improve DLUHCs understanding of and preparedness for a range of disruptive challenges and civil contingencies.
7.
Incident response

  • You will provide a supporting role during emergency response and recovery, maintaining effective information flows to inform local and national decisionmaking.
  • You will be asked to carry out other roles in DLUHC's Operations Centre to support the Government's response, across a range of grade appropriate roles that you will have been trained for which can be outside of core business hours including at weekends and on bank holidays.
  • Overtime is payable and time off in lieu arranged for out of hours working.

Person specification:


Essential skills and experience:


  • Excellent oral and written briefing skills.
  • Ability to work effectively with a range of partners at national, regional and local level at all levels of seniority.
  • A selfstarter who can provide solutions to problems as they arise and lead on projects and programmes.
  • Ability to prioritise work effectively and respond to changing demands.
  • Ability to see the big picture and identify key strategic trends and the 'so what'.
  • The ability to communicate detailed information succinctly, clearly and with insight.

Desirable Criteria:


  • Prior knowledge and/or experience of Resilience, LRFs, Civil Contingencies.
  • Willingness to secure Developed Vetting (DV).

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Changing and Improving
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Delivering at Pace

Benefits:


  • Alongside your salary of £40,390, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £10,905 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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Selection process details:


  • This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Ability.
    Selection Process Details

We are for everyone

We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.
We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.


Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.


  • The assessor won't be reading your answers sequentially.
  • Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
  • If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

At sift, we will be assessing
Behaviour 1 Communicating and influencing (lead behaviour)

Behaviour 2 Seeing the big pictu
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