Resilience Manager - 12 month FTC

Mining Remediation Authority; Mansfield; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28.97% employer pension contribution

Generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days

Flexibility in working hours

Support for professional qualifications

Employee Assistance Programme

Free on-site parking

Parking at Mansfield office

Job summary

A public sector organization in Mansfield is seeking a skilled Resilience Manager for a 12-month contract. The role involves enhancing business continuity and emergency response arrangements, supporting multi-agency collaboration, and leading incident responses. Ideal candidates have solid experience in resilience and emergency planning, thrive in fast-paced environments, and are confident in advising at all levels. This role allows for hybrid working arrangements and contributes to critical community safety efforts.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in resilience, emergency planning or business continuity.
• Confidence to advise, influence and support others at all levels.
• Comfortable in fast‑moving situations with decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Proactively develop and enhance business continuity and emergency response arrangements.
• Support colleagues to build resilience knowledge and confidence.
• Lead incident response and structured debriefs.
• Deliver training and mentoring in a multi‑agency context.
• Identify improvements and future risks through horizon scanning.

Skills

Resilience expertise

Emergency planning

Leadership during crises

Collaboration skills

Job description

Overview

About You Make a real impact where it matters most. At the Mining Remediation Authority, we’re dedicated to protecting people, places and the environment across former mining areas. Every day, we work to keep communities safe by managing mining‑related hazards to strengthening long‑term resilience across Great Britain's coalfields. Our work is meaningful, fast‑paced and always evolving and we’re looking for someone who shares our passion for making a difference.

About the role

We’re excited to offer an opportunity for a skilled and proactive Resilience Manager to join our Resilience team on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract. In this role, you’ll play a key part in ensuring the organisation is fully prepared to anticipate, respond to and recover from incidents that affect our people, services, and the communities we serve. You’ll help shape and strengthen our business continuity and emergency response arrangements, build capability across the organisation, and support multi‑agency working in a dynamic, nationally important environment. If you thrive on collaboration, problem‑solving and leading with confidence during high‑pressure situations, this is a role where you’ll truly make an impact.

What you’ll be doing

• Proactively developing and enhancing the MRA’s business continuity and emergency response arrangements
• Supporting colleagues across the organisation to build deeper resilience knowledge and confidence
• Leading and contributing to incident response, recovery and structured debriefs
• Delivering training and mentoring staff in a multi‑agency context
• Building strong relationships with internal teams and external partners
• Identifying improvements, future risks and opportunities through continuous horizon scanning
• Representing the MRA professionally at multi‑agency meetings and sector forums

What we’re looking for

You’ll bring solid experience in resilience, emergency planning or business continuity, along with the confidence to advise, influence and support others at all levels. You’ll be comfortable working in fast‑moving situations, making decisions and providing clear, calm leadership when it matters most.

Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2‑3 days working out of our Mansfield office)

Schedule: Application closing date: 1st February 2026; Sifting date: 3rd February 2026; Interviews: w/c 9th February 2026

Security: Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.

About Mining Remediation Authority

Our benefits:

• A cutting‑edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
• Experience our values‑based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
• Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full‑time, part‑time, or compressed hours.
• Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
• Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
• Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
• Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
• Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well‑being.
• Unlock exclusive employee discounts
• Ensure your well‑being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well‑being activities.
• Enjoy the convenience of on‑site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.

Working with us

We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview. With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.

Who we are

Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas. We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution. We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net‑zero emissions by 2050. We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We’re proud to be an inclusive employer and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities, and we actively promote equality of opportunity throughout our recruitment process. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria and identify as disabled or from a minority ethnic background, this aligns with our values. We recruit based on your skills, experience and potential not your ethnicity, background, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. To help ensure fairness, we anonymise applications by asking you to remove personally identifiable information before they are reviewed by hiring managers. This helps us reduce unconscious bias and focus solely on what matters, your ability to succeed in the role. If you’re successful in joining us, it’s because we believe in your ability to make a meaningful contribution. By continuing to improve the diversity of our organisation, we strengthen our collective knowledge, creativity, innovation and living our values of beingtrusted,inclusive, andprogressive every day.

Contact

If you require reasonable adjustments or an alternative format to apply, please contact us at [e-mail] or call us on 01623 637000. We are happy to support you through the process.