Business Continuity Officer

This role is part of the council's Resilience Team. The team works to make NNC ready for emergencies, by assessing hazards and threats, then making plans and procedures to respond. The role will play a key part in helping North Northamptonshire Council prepare for emergencies by working within the authority to develop resilience against disruptive events and emergencies. The role is 37 hours a week, Monday to Friday. After a period of training, you will join an on-call rota that provides 24/7 cover for the council to respond to emergencies that can happen at any time. Although the role is predominantly completed in normal office hours, the nature of the work requires flexibility and a willingness to work unsocial hours as required.What will you be doing? You will be helping NNC to be ready for all manner of emergencies and disruptive events. You will support in developing and delivering a program of work to improve the state of resilience across the whole council and drive the direction of the council's business continuity efforts through our Business Continuity Steering Group. You will work with other parts of the council closely to develop their business continuity plans and procedures. You will help us to manage the authority's response to emergencies and major incidents and take an active part in our responses.

Candidates should have sound knowledge of business continuity management systems and have experience developing and maintain them. Successful candidates must be keen problem solvers. They should be able to produce creative and pragmatic solutions to resilience challenges. Candidates should have good understanding of project management. Successful candidates will have excellent IT skills and be comfortable using tools such as Power BI and others to produce useful data insights. You must be willing to take part in an on-call rota to provide out of hours cover for the authority. This role can deal with some challenging subjects and a great deal of personal resilience can be needed.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups., Our Values and Behaviours Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are: Customer-focused Respectful Efficient Supportive Trustworthy Our Key Commitments Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most. We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council's pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status. We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we're transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people. You'll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think! Why choose us? We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.