Role Responsibility
Do you want to help plan for and respond to emergencies across Kent?Are you confident working under pressure and making decisions when it matters most?Do you enjoy working with partners to improve resilience and preparedness?
Were looking for someone with experience of working in a public sector or emergency planning environment who can quickly settle in and start making a positive impact.
Youll be confident working across a complex environment, helping to shape and deliver resilience activity both within Kent County Council (KCC) and with multi-agency partners. Youll understand how different services connect, and how decisions in one area can affect others, helping to make sure everything we do supports KCCs responsibilities and wider partnership working.
Youll be a skilled communicator, comfortable working with a wide range of people, and confident presenting information clearly to different audiences, including senior leaders.
Youll build strong working relationships with colleagues, partners and stakeholders, and feel comfortable working with a range of people. A big part of the role is bringing people together, working through challenges, and helping to move things forward in a practical and collaborative way.
As a Resilience Officer, youll also support and lead key areas of work such as emergency planning, business continuity and training and exercises. Alongside this, youll help us learn from incidents and continuously improve how we prepare and respond to emergencies.
You should be comfortable working within governance and legislative frameworks, and able to turn complex information into clear, straightforward advice, reports and briefings.
As part of the role, youll be involved in responding to incidents, including taking part in the 24/7 duty rota. At times, you may need to take a leading role, staying calm under pressure and making effective decisions during emergencies and helping to coordinate response activities.
Were looking for someone who enjoys solving problems, working with others, and bringing clarity to complex situations, while taking a practical, hands-on approach to improving resilience across the organisation.
In this role, you will:
1. Provide advice and guidance on emergency planning and business continuity to support services across KCC.
2. Support the development, delivery and review of plans, policies,training and exercises
3. Work closely with colleagues and partners to improve preparedness,response and recovery arrangements
4. Build and maintain strong relationships with internal services and multi-agency partners
5. Lead and contribute to projects and initiatives that improve resilience and ways of working
6. Support responses to emergencies,incidents and planned events, including participation in the duty rota
7. Design and deliver training and exercising activities, capturing lessons learned and identifying improvements
8. Represent KCC at meetings, working groups and partnership forums
9. Carry out assurance and audit activities to ensure plans are effective and up to date
10. Prepare clear briefings,reports and presentations to support decision-making
11. Contribute to a customer-focused,professional and supportive service
The role is based in Maidstone, with flexible and hybrid working arrangements in place. This role involves occasional travel to attend and support training activities and exercises and multi-agency working.
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.