Resilience Consultant

PA Consulting; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Resilience Consultant to join their dynamic Systems Insights & Solutions team. In this role, you will leverage your expertise to deliver innovative solutions that enhance resilience across various sectors, including Defence, Transport, and Energy. You will engage with clients, conduct thorough assessments, and provide actionable insights that drive positive change. This position offers a flexible hybrid working environment, allowing you to manage your time effectively while making a significant impact on critical projects. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to solving complex challenges and fostering a culture of inclusion and growth.

Benefits

Private healthcare

25 days annual leave

Generous pension scheme

Community and charity initiatives

Performance-based bonus

Share ownership

Tax efficient benefits

Qualifications

• Proven experience in resilience across multiple sectors.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for client engagement.
• Ability to manage cross-business interactions effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver impactful solutions focusing on whole system resilience.
• Engage with clients to assess and build resilience capabilities.
• Support projects across various sectors like Defence and Transport.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Systems Thinking

Resilience design

Emergency planning

Education

Certification to relevant industry bodies (e.g. BCI)

Tools

Risk management standards

Information security standards

Job description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

• We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.
• Flexible working - We operate in a hybrid working environment where we come into a client site or office, at least 2-3 days per week.
• Travel to client site will be necessary as and when the client requires.

Our Systems Insights & Solutions team are looking for Resilience Consultants with experience from a range of sectors such as Defence and Security, Public Services, Transport, Energy and Utilities and more.

Our Systems Insights & Solutions resilience experts believe that resilience can only be sought through an end-to-end analysis of operations, and through the application of systems thinking; organisations need an approach that is broader than the previous traditional disciplines of business continuity management.

As a Systems Insights and Solutions Consultant, you will work on projects that have a real impact on everyday life, delivering game-changing solutions. This role will focus upon the application of whole system resilience assessment and capability building in the following key areas:

• People resilience
• Societal resilience
• Infrastructure resilience
• Digital resilience
• Operational resilience
• Supply chain resilience
• Climate resilience

We excel in joining the dots across systems and supporting our clients with their situational awareness; risk management, resilient leadership & culture, whole system resilience assessment, measurement for investment decision making, and building resilience operating models.

Past projects have included:

• Supporting the MOD build a resilient supply chain and industrial base.
• Designing a full staff competency framework to professionalise resilience in the rail industry.
• Delivering an innovative review of the risk to transport sector infrastructure from dam collapse.
• Leading a future-facing review of the physical security strategy for a quasi-diplomatic international organisation.
• Working with a European Central Bank to ensure resilience of their high value payment system.

Qualifications

• You will possess the ability to combine a proven multi-disciplinary outlook with a passion for designing resilient/sustainable businesses.
• Experience in engaging and presenting to clients, with strong verbal and written communication skills, able to highlight recommendations and insights.
• Proven background and technical expertise in resilience in one of the following areas: organisational resilience; supply chain resilience; emergency planning; climate resilience.
• Experience of relevant international standards for resilience, risk management, information security, and/or service continuity.
• Certification to relevant industry bodies e.g. BCI.
• Passion for designing resilient and sustainable businesses, in support of national resilience.
• Stakeholder management skills, capable of managing cross-business interactions.
• Systems Thinking, capable of undertaking strategic and detailed work.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application.

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose-led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family.
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives.
• Annual performance-based bonus.
• PA share ownership.
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn).

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [emailprotected].