Senior Strategic Resilience & Emergency Planning Lead

Sandwell Council; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Sandwell Council’s Place Division seeks a proactive Resilience Manager to lead emergency planning, business continuity and resilience. This permanent, full-time role is based from Oldbury with a hybrid model (3 days in-office, 2 from home).

You will direct resilience strategies, emergency response, and budgets while working with emergency services, health organisations and regional partners to protect residents and essential services.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in emergency planning and resilience.
• Experience leading teams and managing budgets.
• Strong knowledge of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and resilience best practice.
• Experience coordinating major incident responses in multi-agency environments.
• Excellent communication, leadership and decision-making under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Lead emergency planning, business continuity and resilience functions, ensuring compliance with the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
• Act as principal advisor on civil contingencies and resilience workstreams.
• Develop and manage the Resilience Team, fostering high performance.
• Develop, implement and review emergency response, recovery and business continuity plans.
• Lead relationships with emergency services, health organisations, local authorities and regional partners.
• Oversee resilience strategies including flood response and major incident recovery.
• Deliver training, exercising and testing programmes to validate preparedness.
• Manage resilience projects and external funding opportunities.
• Participate in out-of-hours standby rota as required.

Skills

Emergency planning

Business continuity

Resilience

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Job description

Sandwell Council’s Place Division seeks a proactive Resilience Manager to lead emergency planning, business continuity and resilience. This permanent, full-time role is based from Oldbury with a hybrid model (3 days in-office, 2 from home).

You will direct resilience strategies, emergency response, and budgets while working with emergency services, health organisations and regional partners to protect residents and essential services.