Business Continuity Advisor

Are you an experienced working professional in business continuity, resilience and incident management? If so, HM Land Registry (HMLR) now have an exciting opportunity to join our Data and Register Integrity Directorate as a Business Continuity Advisor.
In this role, you will be responsible for delivering a robust Business Continuity Management System to support the organisation’s needs, ensuring HMLR is prepared for and can recover from business continuity related incidents and events.
Acting as the business continuity subject matter expert (SME), you will lead efforts to improve resilience and provide guidance, tools and SME advice to ensure preparedness for potential disruptions and recovery and be responsible for overseeing HMLR’s business continuity framework, ensuring it is adaptable, proportionate and aligned with organisational goals., As a Business Continuity Advisor, you will build and nurture strong stakeholder relationships, develop and communicate policies and help to develop maturity in HMLR’s preparedness and response to business continuity incidents.
You will support First Line staff in identifying and managing incidents and agreeing suitable business continuity posture and response to senior boards and committees, providing assurance on the effectiveness and maturity of HMLR’s strategic Business Continuity Management Programme.
By utilising your expert advice and constructively challenging senior staff and leaders in the First Line, you will improve their understanding of business continuity risks in their area. You will be responsible for equipping them with the knowledge and skills to prepare for, and recover from, business continuity incidents effectively and assisting them in the event of a crisis, incident or disaster recovery when required.
You will advise on gap analysis and improvements in business and service continuity, disaster recovery and create resilience by designing, building and delivering a robust contingency operation against requirements, policies, frameworks and best practices. You will also create confidence through scenarios, playbooks, test plans, simulations and resource planning by developing and/or supporting test exercises across the organisation.
Furthermore, you will continuously develop and maintain an appropriate business continuity management framework and an Incident Management Log.
Due to the nature of the role, there will be an occasional need to be able to accommodate working outside normal flexible working hours if an incident occurs, to ensure staff are receiving appropriate support at the appropriate time. Time off in lieu can be taken for such incidents. Occasional travel, including some overnight stays, will be required for meetings, projects or national work.
For more information about the role, please see the attached Candidate Pack.

To be successful in this role you must be an experienced and working professional in business continuity, resilience and incident management and have professional certification in business continuity (MBCI or similar).
You will have proven experience in creating and/or the development of security or business continuity products and deliverables and in developing frameworks, policies, procedures, guidance and/or best practices in business continuity and incident response and management.
As an excellent communicator at all levels, you will be experienced in building effective stakeholder relationships, creating trust, engaging, advising and influencing and leading in challenging and complex environments. Utilising your natural flair to form excellent relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, you will be able to confidently provide advice and constructively challenge others.
You must be experienced in working within a changing environment, managing multiple priorities and collaborating and delivering through others to meet short and longer-term deadlines. With the ability to perform effectively to deadlines, you will be able to maintain focus in challenging situations and readily adapt to find suitable solutions to meet the needs of stakeholders.
Where an individual taking up the responsibility will be based in Swansea Office, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable., Professional certification in business continuity (MBCI or similar)., + Communicating and Influencing
+ Changing and Improving
+ Making Effective Decisions
+ Working Together

Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
+ Experienced and working professional in business continuity, resilience and incident management.

Alongside your salary of £41,887, HM Land Registry contributes £12,134 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
#WeAreHMLR
At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.
We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.
+ We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
+ We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
+ We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
+ We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.
You can find more information on our rewards package on our website., This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.
To apply, you will need to enter your qualifications and career history into the CV section of the online application form and complete a Technical skills section and a Personal Statement by no later than 11:55pm on Sunday 24th November 2024.
In the Technical skills section, you will need to demonstrate (in up to 250 words) how you meet the following essential Technical skills criteria:
+ Experienced and working professional in business continuity, resilience and incident management.
The Personal Statement section (in up to 750 words) should be used to outline your skills and experience for the role and provide details of how you meet the essential Experience criteria detailed within the Person Specification in the attached Candidate Pack.
The sift will take place shortly after the closing date.
In the event of a high volume of applications for this vacancy, an initial sift will be conducted on the CV section and the essential Technical skills criteria:
+ Experienced and working professional in business continuity, resilience and incident management.
and a full sift only carried out on those applications that pass the initial sift stage.
The final stage will consist of a blended interview which will take place during week commencing 9th December 2024.
The blended interview will test the Experience and Behaviours listed in the Person Specification within the attached Candidate Pack, as well as the Strengths associated with the role. We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested.
The best way to prepare for strengths questions is to reflect on what you identify as your own personal strengths, and your preferred ways of working.
Prompt notes may be referred to within the video interview if required.
Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application.
Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 11:55pm on the advertised date.
HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.
If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.