Senior Resilience Manager

Transport for Greater Manchester; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Resilience Manager to enhance safety in Greater Manchester's public transport. This pivotal role involves leading a dedicated team, ensuring compliance with security requirements, and fostering partnerships with emergency services. You'll play a crucial part in the organization's incident response and travel safety initiatives, contributing to a safer travel environment for all. If you're passionate about public safety and enjoy working in a collaborative setting, this opportunity is tailored for you. Join a dynamic team committed to making a real difference in the community.

Benefits

28 days holiday per annum

Flexible working options

Free public transport within Greater Manchester

Local Government Pension Scheme

Professional development reimbursement

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Excellent report-writing skills and knowledge of resilience frameworks.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and articulate complex transport issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage TfGM’s Resilience work programme.
• Ensure effective response and preparedness during disruptions.

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Report Writing

Resilience Management

Incident Response

Education

Degree in Resilience or Related Discipline

Job description

Introduction:

Are you excited by the opportunity to influence safer travel for customers in Greater Manchester? Do you want to be part of a team that makes a direct contribution to improving safety and security for staff and customers?

Your Role

In this role you will contribute directly to helping make travel safer for customers, by ensuring TfGM is resilient during disruption, delivers mandatory security requirements and supports the Greater Manchester family response to Major Emergencies.

As the Senior Resilience Manager you’ll lead and manage day-to-day delivery of TfGM’s Resilience work programme ensuring effective response and preparedness whilst managing a small team of Resilience Managers. Contribute to initiatives to support safer and secure travel for passengers, all whilst working cross-functionally across the organisation.

For more information, please see the role profile at the bottom of the advert.

Who are we?

It’s a critical and exciting time for public transport in Greater Manchester, and we’re seeking a Senior Resilience Manager to join our TravelSafe & Resilience team and help shape and develop the organisation's Resilience and Security preparedness.

What you’ll bring

You will be keen to work in partnership with a wide range of agencies, able to develop effective relationships, influence stakeholders and be able to articulate complex transport issues.

You’ll have excellent report-writing skills, knowledge of Resilience (or a related discipline) alongside relevant statutory frameworks.

You’ll play a visible role in supporting the organisation’s Incident Response and TravelSafe activities therefore an ability to remain focused delivering pragmatic solutions is essential.

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work with partners from the blue-light emergency services and local authorities through the Greater Manchester Resilience Forum (GMRF) ensuring TfGM delivers its responsibilities under the Civil Contingencies Act and contributes as part of the Greater Manchester family.

For this role you are required to undertake security vetting, work flexibly, participate in on-call rotas and operational activities as required.

What we can offer you

This is a permanent role and comes with a salary of £56,361- £63,438 per annum depending on experience. At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process.

Our benefits include:

• 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Flexible and hybrid working options to promote and support a good work/life balance
• Free bus, rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
• Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
• Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required

What's next?

If you believe you have the skills and experience required and would like to be part of a range of exciting and high-profile projects, we’d really like to hear from you!

To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

Internal candidates - check with your line manager before applying for a secondment, to make sure you can be released from your substantive role.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

NOTE TO AGENCIES – we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.