Location: UK, Chesterfield (Hybrid)
Organization: East Midlands Combined County Authority
As Business Continuity Manager, you will lead the development and implementation of the East Midlands Combined County Authority’s (EMCCA’s) business continuity, emergency planning, and organizational resilience arrangements. You will provide expert advice and guidance across the organization, ensuring robust plans, frameworks, and processes are in place to enable EMCCA to respond effectively to disruptions, emergencies, and emerging risks.
You will work closely with senior leaders, managers, partner organizations, and emergency services to embed resilience into governance, risk management, and service delivery, ensuring the organization remains prepared, responsive, and compliant with relevant legislation and best practice.
This is an excellent opportunity to shape a developing resilience function within a growing organization. You will play a key role in strengthening organizational preparedness, influencing strategic decision-making, and helping to protect critical services that support communities across the East Midlands.
Job role:
- Leading the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of EMCCA’s business continuity and emergency resilience framework.
- Advising and supporting teams in the creation, review, and testing of business continuity plans and emergency response arrangements.
- Conducting and supporting business impact analyses to identify critical services and prioritise recovery activities.
- Developing and delivering training, exercises, and simulations to improve organizational preparedness and resilience.
- Providing expert guidance on business continuity, emergency planning, and counter-terrorism resilience matters.
- Building effective relationships with internal stakeholders, emergency services, and partner organizations to strengthen response capabilities.
- Monitoring organizational resilience performance, reporting on preparedness, and driving continuous improvement activities.
- Acting as a tactical adviser during incidents and emergencies, and participating in emergency resilience and on-call arrangements.