Resilience and Emergency Planning Manager

Role Responsibility

Purpose of the Job:

To deliver line management, supervision, policy development and project management roles co-located within the multi-agency Kent Resilience Forum / Kent Resilience Team, in advocacy and furtherance of Kent County Council’s statutory duties and policy priorities. This includes deputising for the Head of the Kent Resilience Team and KCC Head of Resilience and Emergency Planning Service, senior participation in corporate and multi-agency forums, command and control structures, and other planning and operational response roles.

The role provides day-to-day management across a range of specialist functions, encompassing risk. plans & capabilities, training & exercising, and lessons learned / lessons identified. This will requires working at a senior level across all KRF partners (including KCC services and providers), industry, emergency services and other stakeholders

Main duties and responsibilities:

1.  Co-lead with the KRT partners the development and delivery of the KRT Business Plan, ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation, regulations, and guidance ensuring changes in legislation and regulations are interpreted and implemented

2.  Represent the KRT at local, regional, and national multi agency/stakeholder meetings, leading / chairing working groups providing KRF opinions and providing tactical advice to influence the cross directorate and multi-agency decision making on behalf of KCC.

3.  Participate effectively in Infrastructure Extended Management Team and other management forums to provide specialist guidance and advice to internal teams influencing decision making and building customer relationships across KCC.

4.  Lead and develop the provision of specialist, clear, consistent professional advice and guidance regarding KRF workstreams, by interpreting policy / procedures and applying best practice to solve complex resilience queries for a wide range of customers across all KRF partner organisations.

5.  Lead, develop and build strong customer relationships with multi-agency groups and partners, influencing decision makers through the understanding of how resilience issues could impact on organisations.

6.  Manage and lead work streams, projects, and initiatives within the Kent Resilience Team to meet multi-agency organisational aims and objectives ensuring the commissioning of expertise of other functions within the multi-agency organisations.

7.  Manage and ensure oversight of project portfolios from concept to handover, which will include the setting of project plans, finance, procurement, communicating progress to the Head of the Kent Resilience Team, KRF governance boards, and the KCC Head of Resilience and Emergency Planning to ensure the mitigation of risks to the population of Kent & Medway.

8.  Lead and manage a team of professionally qualified staff and those working towards qualification developing and motivating them through day-to-day support and supervision.

9.  Commission and participate in multi-agency debriefs to identify and learn lessons from responses, training, and exercises to improve ways of working in the future.

10. Manage the budgets for the KRT team, ensuring that cost retrieval and other financial targets are achieved, and resources are used appropriately with consistent appraisal methods for expenditure.

11. Responsible for stimulating an environment for innovation with opportunities to plan new interventions that will drive innovation, proactively embracing new ways of working. Consistently looking at the current way of working to see how this can be improved.

12. Participate in KCC’s response to incidents / emergencies, including contributing to command and control meetings, coordinating resources, and liaising with colleagues in KCC and wider KRF partner organisations (both in hours and out-of-hours), when required.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Contact Details

Andy Jeffery - 07850 907 292 - andy.jeffery@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.