Local Resilience Forum - Birmingham, United Kingdom - West Midlands Police

West Midlands Police

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

West Midlands Conurbation (WMC) hosts the Local Resilience Forum (LRF) which is a multi-agency partnership with representatives from all 7 Unitary Local Authorities, Emergency Services, NHS, Environment Agency and wider sectors such as Military, Voluntary, Transport and private sectors to name a few.

The LRF supports the preparedness agenda by delivering to its core statutory responsibilities of coordination and information sharing duties and supports the wider resilience sectors.

WMC LRF is expanding its remit under the developments of the Integrated Review.

The LRF will deliver to Government in relation to existing and emerging legislative requirements, steering the developing National Resilience Strategy and will shape the future of WMC LRF.

In addition, the local focus of WMC will remain under its responsibilities to support individual agency requirements under the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) respectively.

The role of the LRF Officer is to provide support to the LRF coordinator and Strategic Manager, to support the progression of delivery plans, training, exercising, learning through engagement with sub-group leads within the LRF partnership.

The LRF Officer will be accountable and responsible to the LRF Co-ordinator

Key Responsibilities:

Assist in planning, exercising, learning and risk assessments for the Resilience Delivery cycles
Provide logístical support to all subgroups, national reporting's and key LRF meeting schedules
Ability to build professional relationships across sectors at all levels of the organisations
Ability to work to individual demands and wider delivery schedule
Demonstrated the ability to communicate well with good influential and negotiating skills to overcome challenges
Flexible approach to on call to support LRF activation

Essential Skills:

Demonstrable experience working within the field of resilience
Experience of work involving close liaison between internal and external contacts, including professional advisers and representatives of other public and statutory organisations.
Experience of analysing and interpreting data and information.
Experienced in working within an office environment with a responsibility for working with selfdiscipline and initiative.
Proven ability to work with people at all levels of an organisation.
Must have the capability to travel to different locations across the WMC and undertake all assignments in a timely manner. Due to the requirement to work flexible, unsocial hours and personal safety for lone working; public transport may not be available or suitable at these times. For this reason a full driving license is essential.
Experienced in determining and evaluating project risk
Experience of working within a multiagency environment with a focus on resilience, business continuity, training and exercising and/or emergency planning.
Proven ability to progress multiple work assignments with mínimal supervision.
IT literate, including Microsoft Packages, Resilience Direct and other IT software.
Proven ability to collate information and produce clear and concise reports.
An ability to plan and organise both person and multiagency team timetables within an overall project, working in partnership to agree aims and objectives
Proven communication and interpersonal skills.

Desirable Skills:

Professional qualification in Emergency Planning or other related discipline
JESIP accredited
EPC accreditation within the field of resilience (e.g. BC, Risk Assessment, EP etc.)
Proven ability to analyse external partner requirements and prioritise them in line with a range of competing challenges.
Experience of influencing and stakeholder management

Vetting:

Successful applicants will be required to pass Management Vetting and Security Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.

Medical:

Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.

Hours of Work and Flexibility:
flexibility to meet demand)

Location:
Main hub will be: C3, Park Lane, Aston, Birmingham, B6 5DD. Fully Agile - element of working in stakeholder locations e.g. Local Authority offices, WMFS.

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