About the job

Job summary

Working in a team with Jennifer Allison our Head – COO Operations and Scott McNicholas (Assistant Director – COO Operations), the Business Continuity Manager will play a critical role in implementing and maintaining the Agency’s business continuity management approach and incident response capability. You will be joining our experienced team, who are committed to making positive change in how the Chief Operating Office provides a range of services that support both operational delivery and change.

Scott is dedicated to delivering a first-class customer service, resolving challenges informally wherever possible, taking an innovative and creative approach to addressing issues. Scott believes in working in a collaborative way to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team.

This is a rare chance to shape the future business continuity planning and management in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional business management team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of business continuity issues and the have the opportunity to help create an effective business continuity management approach across Homes England.

Job description

The role will support the design and delivery of the Agency’s business continuity management approach. This is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day emergency planning, testing and training whilst bringing innovative solutions to the business continuity management offering.

Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders on business continuity, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.

You'll be comfortable supporting the Assistant Director – COO Operations with complex business continuity and incident management issues, aiming to build support for the Business Continuity Management approach across Homes England, providing expert support for directorates and where appropriate, other relevant internal and external stakeholders. You will be proficient in specialist business continuity management, to support the continued professional development of business continuity capability.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a business management team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced specific discipline professional you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Person specification

• Hold a recognised Business Continuity qualification (CBCI, ISO22301:2019, or similar) or membership (MBCI etc.) or evidence of working towards this.
• Recent experience of emergency preparedness, resilience, and response (EPRR) in general, or a good working knowledge of multi-agency preparedness and response activities.
• Experience in business continuity planning/impact analysis.
• Recent experience in the design, delivery, implementation, and management of business continuity capability at organisational level.
• Experience of working with, engaging and influencing a wide range of senior stakeholders to drive organisational change.
• Experience of developing, planning and leading communication and engagement across all levels of an organisation (both verbally and in writing).
• Experience of performing in delivery roles, including solution design, project management, change management, performance reporting, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to gain confidence and credibility of a range of professionals, motivating and inspiring commitment and collaboration.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills with proven ability to work collaboratively with colleagues/stakeholders at all levels.
• Highly developed, negotiating and influencing skills, overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance, and reaching agreements.
• Strong organisational skills, including an ability to be self-starting, to direct work effectively and remain professional in a highly pressurised environment whilst dealing with conflicting priorities.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

 

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us.  Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Name:  Recruitment Team

Email:  recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

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

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. 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.