Resilience Officer – Essex County Fire and Rescue Service

Essex Resilience Forum Resilience Officer

Contract: 12-month FTC

Working Hours: 37 hrs per week

Grade: 9

Salary: £43,421 – £46,464

Location: Kelvedon Park

Closing Date: 1st December 2024

*We are open to discuss working arrangements including flexibility over hours and location

This role is a fixed-term opportunity. If the role is extended (or made permanent), the extension or permanent position may be offered to the successful applicant ahead of any further recruitment process.

The Essex Resilience Forum brings a wide variety of agencies together to manage major incidents. As well as planning for emergencies, training and exercising, it also ensures that the county remains as safe as it can be and that we work together to minimise the impact.

The Role

We have an opportunity within the Essex Resilience Forum (ERF) for a Resilience Officer. Your role would be to provide a responsive, efficient and effective service to the Essex Resilience Forum Team and partnership.

Providing support, advice and guidance, across Essex Resilience Forum (ERF) member agencies; ensuring Essex agency emergency plans are in place and supporting training, exercising and learning outcomes to support preparedness, response and recovery activities for emergency planning and incident response.

What You Will Be Working On

· Working within the Essex Resilience Forum team and reporting to the ERF Manager, this role will include but is not limited to:

· Engaging with ERF partners with the delivery of their obligations under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) and associated legislation.

· Support ERF partners within the multi-agency domain to enhance collaborative working through the Programme Delivery Group (PDG), delivering the objectives against the National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA), multi-agency emergency planning activities and training, exercising and lessons learned.

· Designated lead on key workstreams and special projects within the ERF providing guidance, delivery and support across the ERF.

· Develop, support and uphold the governance and assurance structures of the ERF Secretariat, to ensure multi-agency activities align with the ERF Strategy and the National Resilience Standards (NRS).

· Support with the monitoring and evaluation of the ERFs performance and compliance in line with changes to legislation and government led directives.

· Develop and build strong customer relationships with multi agency groups and partners.

· Develop, challenge and evaluate emergency plans by the identification of potential issues; delivering expertise knowledge and understanding of resilience issues; identifying areas for improvement and communicating and raising the awareness of these to the partner agencies.