Are you looking for a high profile and dynamic role, which will bring you in contact with a wide range of stakeholders? To help us deliver our responsibilities, we are seeking an experienced individual to fill the Transport Resilience Manager role within the Operations Team in the Roads Delivery and Operations Directorate. Operations are engaged in delivering and developing a number of outward facing services within Transport Scotland's Roads Delivery and Operations Directorate. The team's objectives are directly linked to the service that customers experience as they use the trunk road network. The resilience functionality is provided by a Contracts Team and an Events Teams, and they report to the National Operations Manager – Resilience.
Responsibilities:
* Provide secretariat function for both the Transport Scotland Resilience Board (TSRB) and Transport Scotland Resilience Operational Group (TSROG). This will involve taking ownership of certain actions resulting from both forums, with the aim of improving preparedness for identified key civil contingencies risks such as Pandemic, National Power Outage and Cyber risks.
* Development of our transport resilience arrangements based on Preparing Scotland's Integrated Emergency Management (IEM) principles: Assessment, Prevention, Preparation, Response and Recovery.This will include supporting the design and delivery of resilience training, exercising and structured debriefing processes to capture and implement lessons learned.
* Contribute to the development of transport resilience civil contingency work programmes using robust project management principles.
* Support with the impact assessment of transport related risks contained within the UK National Risk Assessment (NRA) and Scottish Risk Assessment (SRA). This will require engagement across key resilience partners, including government bodies.
* Internal and external stakeholder engagement with resilience partners at a local, regional, and national level. This will include attending the counter terrorism strategy (CONTEST) prepare and protect meetings.
* Ensure Ministers are provided with appropriate advice on both planned and unplanned resilience events which may impact the trunk road network. This includes managing and coordinating the out of hours on-call provision.
* Support the preparation, activation and operation of the Multi-Agency Response Team (MART) and Transport Scotland Resilience Room (TSRR) for major planned events and unplanned incidents and be a member of the response team during activations as well as supporting with the out of hours on-call function.