Business Continuity Manager - Hybrid, £700 a day
Posted 2 days ago by Bangura Solutions
£700 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Lewisham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: Proven Business Continuity Manager needed to assist a local authority in establishing strategic resilience priorities and objectives for comprehensive Emergency Plans and Business Continuity procedures. The role involves reviewing and maintaining the Corporate Business Continuity plan and leading workshops to ensure staff awareness of the policy. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in emergency planning and business continuity within local government settings. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Key Responsibilities:
- Determine strategic resilience priorities and objectives for Emergency Plans and Business Continuity procedures.
- Review, revise, and maintain the Corporate Business Continuity plan.
- Provide guidance notes and codes of practice in support of the policy.
- Lead activities and workshops to promote policy awareness among staff.
- Analyze and resolve complex issues while balancing organizational risk with business needs.
- Develop and implement emergency planning and business continuity systems.
- Navigate conflict and maintain constructive relationships.
- Interpret emergency planning and business continuity legislation and information.
- Utilize research and statistical data to draw conclusions and recommend actions.
- Communicate effectively with various audiences, both orally and in writing.
Key Skills:
- Expert knowledge of preparedness issues and emergency planning statutory requirements.
- Understanding of local government political and democratic processes.
- Highly developed relationship management and leadership skills.
- Successful track record in emergency planning and business continuity systems.
- Able to analyze complex issues and develop constructive relationships.
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.
- Ability to be proportionate in decision-making.
- Experience in a similar role within a council.
Salary (Rate): £700 daily
City: Lewisham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
Proven Business Continuity Manager required to help our local authority client determine strategic resilience priorities and objectives to deliver a comprehensive Emergency Plans and Business Continuity procedures for the organisation. You will also review, revise as necessary and maintain the Corporate Business Continuity plan, to provide guidance notes and codes of practice in support of the policy and to lead activities, workshops, etc to ensure the Policy is brought to the attention of staff.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Expert knowledge of current and impending issues in preparedness.
- Excellent awareness of emergency planning and business continuity statutory requirements, national and corporate policies and legislation, organisational obligations and implications of variations in service delivery models.
- Knowledge of the complex political and democratic processes within local government, together with an understanding of the relationships with other local authorities and statutory bodies
- Highly developed relationship management skills delivered through effective leadership, and influencing skills to deal effectively and professionally with a variety of people at all levels to embed a compliance culture
- Successful track record of planning, development and implementation of emergency planning and business continuity systems in medium to large, complex organisations
- Ability to successfully navigate conflict whilst, developing and maintaining constructive relationships.
- Able to analyse and resolve complex issues, balancing organisational risk with business needs
- Able to understand and interpret emergency planning and business continuity legislation and information, collate, interpret and use research and statistical data, draw conclusions and recommend actions and to make such information understandable across various audiences
- Excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written.
- The ability to be proportionate is key.
The ideal candidate will have recently completed a similar role for another Council. Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Interview will commence this week, so please apply immediately to be considered for this contract role or call Bangura Solutions on 0203 854 1400 to discuss this contract opportunity further.