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? We’re 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.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide advice and guidance on emergency planning and business continuity to support services across KCC.
* Support the development, delivery and review of plans, policies, training and exercises.
* Work closely with colleagues and partners to improve preparedness, response and recovery arrangements.
* Build and maintain strong relationships with internal services and multi‑agency partners.
* Lead and contribute to projects and initiatives that improve resilience and ways of working.
* Support responses to emergencies, incidents and planned events, including participation in the duty rota.
* Design and deliver training and exercising activities, capturing lessons learned and identifying improvements.
* Represent KCC at meetings, working groups and partnership forums.
* Carry out assurance and audit activities to ensure plans are effective and up to date.
* Prepare clear briefings, reports and presentations to support decision‑making.
* Contribute to a customer‑focused, professional and supportive service.
The role is based in Maidstone, with flexible and hybrid working arrangements in place. It may involve occasional travel to attend and support training activities, exercises and multi‑agency working.
As a Resilience Officer, you’ll help shape and deliver resilience activity both within Kent County Council (KCC) and with multi‑agency partners. You’ll understand how different services connect and how decisions in one area can affect others, helping to make sure everything we do supports KCC’s responsibilities and wider partnership working.
You should be comfortable working within governance and legislative frameworks, and able to turn complex information into clear, straightforward advice, reports and briefings. You’ll be a skilled communicator, comfortable working with a wide range of people, and confident presenting information clearly to different audiences, including senior leaders.
As part of the role, you’ll 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.
We are a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure 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.
KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.
Please note – if you are interested, please apply soon as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.
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