Hybrid Resilience & Emergency Planning Lead

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Oldbury; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandwell Council is seeking a proactive Resilience Manager to lead emergency planning, business continuity and resilience across the organisation from its Oldbury office. You will guide a dedicated team, ensuring readiness for emergencies and major incidents, in line with statutory duties.

The role requires strategic oversight, strong stakeholder engagement, and the ability to coordinate across emergency services, health organisations and regional partners. A hybrid working model is offered.

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience in emergency planning, business continuity and resilience.
• Experience leading teams, managing budgets and delivering strategic programmes.
• Strong knowledge of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and resilience best practice.
• Experience coordinating responses to major incidents in multi-agency environments.
• Ability to build partnerships with senior stakeholders and partner organisations.
• Experience delivering training, exercises and resilience programmes.
• Excellent communication, leadership and decision-making skills under pressure.
• Strong organisational, analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead emergency planning, business continuity and resilience functions ensuring compliance with the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
• Act as principal advisor on civil contingencies, business continuity, Protect and Prepare workstreams.
• Manage and develop the Resilience Team to high performance.
• Develop, implement and review emergency response, recovery and business continuity plans.
• Lead relationships with emergency services, health organisations and regional partners.
• Oversee resilience strategies including flood response and major incidents.
• Deliver training, exercising and testing programmes for preparedness.
• Lead resilience-related projects and support corporate programmes.
• Manage service budgets and identify external funding for resilience initiatives.
• Respond to major incidents as part of the emergency response and standby rota.

Skills

Emergency planning

Business continuity

Resilience

Leadership

Education

Degree-level qualification

Job description

Sandwell Council is seeking a proactive Resilience Manager to lead emergency planning, business continuity and resilience across the organisation from its Oldbury office. You will guide a dedicated team, ensuring readiness for emergencies and major incidents, in line with statutory duties.

The role requires strategic oversight, strong stakeholder engagement, and the ability to coordinate across emergency services, health organisations and regional partners. A hybrid working model is offered.