Strategic Resilience Advisor - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Salary:

- £51,934

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Grade 7
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Resilience and Recovery
Type of role:
Other
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Birmingham, WolverhamptonAbout the job

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Job description:

Key Responsibilities
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Leadership - you will work as part of a team comprising 4 other G7 SRAs and an HEO Co-ordinator, the team is led by a G6 Head of Regional Resilience. You will role model civil service behaviours, contributing at team meetings and RED wide working groups and forums, leading ad-hoc projects as required and looking for opportunities to be active in the corporate life of DLUHC. You will be expected to seek opportunities for your own personal learning and development.
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Relationship
Management - you will typically hold the lead relationship with one or two LRFs (depending on risk and complexity), and support on one or two LRFs, providing cover when the lead SRA is unavailable.
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Strong Local Relationships - you will build, develop, and maintain strong and effective working relationships with local and regional partners, especially with the LRF Chair and Secretariat, and at a senior level with colleagues from all Category 1 and 2 organisations.
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Represent Government at Local and Regional Meetings - you will attend senior and strategic local and regional meeting to support local planning, response, and recovery. This will include offering advice on the wider picture, encouraging cross boundary working, sharing good practice and where necessary acting as a 'critical friend'. More than just attending meetings, the SRA will look to help advise, shape, and support local planning to improve the UK resilience to a wide variety of disruptive challenges.
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Planning and Risk
Management - you will support LRFs as they assess and plan to mitigate risk, taking the National Security Risk Assessment as the basis for their plans. SRAs are expected to develop a thorough understanding and a level of expertise in emergency planning and response, and to use this to advise LRF partners in the fulfilment of their statutory duties.
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Local Knowledge to Shape National Resilience Objectives

SRAs think about the wider implications for LRFs of evolving risks, this includes considering regional strategic relationships, using knowledge of local areas to shape national policy development across government departments. SRAs look for opportunities to share emerging and good practice across the LRF community, helping LRFs benefit from the experience of other across the country.

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Capabilities - you will develop expertise in an area of civil contingencies resilience and support cross cutting work to develop and improve DLUHC understanding of, and preparedness for, a range of disruptive challenges and civil contingency risks.

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Person specification:

Adept at relationship management with a proven trackrecord of effectively leading senior stakeholder relationships with a range of partners at national, regional and local tier.
Excellent oral and written briefing skills and ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and influence decision making process.
A selfstarter who can identify solutions to problems as they arise and lead on projects and programmes.
A proven ability to prioritise work effectively, at pace, at times under pressure, responding to changing and sometimes conflicting demands.
A proven ability to see the bigger picture with an enquiring, curious mindset, being alert to emerging issues, key strategic trends, and ask the question 'so what'?
Ability to communicate detailed information succinctly, clearly, with insight, often at pace and demonstrating a clear understanding in security of information.
Ability to demonstrate inclusive leadership and be able to engage work colleagues and external partners to deliver on priorities.

Behaviours:

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

Seeing the Big Picture
Communicating and Influencing
Delivering at Pace

Benefits:

Alongside your salary of £51,934, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £14,022 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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