Emergency Management & Business Continuity Officer

Camden

Job Role

To lead on the council's planning, testing and response arrangements for business continuity and emergency incidents, in line with the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

To take an active role in the council's response to an emergency/business continuity incident, coordinating council services in a collaborative response with emergency responders and other partners.

To lead on engagement and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders - chief officers, elected members, council services, Category 1 & 2 responders, volunteer members of the Crisis Support Team and other groups.

Key Responsibilities

To manage a challenging workload with conflicting priorities, this will include delivering and testing response and recovery plans for the council and external partners and to support colleagues to work collectively to this end.

To participate in the out of hours Duty Emergency Planning Officer rota, To lead and facilitate Camden's initial response and support to emergency responders in relation to an incident.

To lead on identification, design and delivery of projects that improves the council's and communities response to risks related to emergency or business continuity incidents.

To assess and develop training and exercising of Crisis Support Team and other Council staff in relation to their response roles.

Identification, assessment and reduction of risks. To include the maintenance of the Borough Risk Register on behalf of the Borough Resilience Forum.

Work with emergency planning/business continuity professionals across London to ensure that adequate response plans and resources are in place when responding to an incident.

Facilitating decisions and action plans through partnership working, e.g. Borough Resilience Forum, London - North Central sub region resilience forum.

Provide advice and support to senior managers and officers across the Council, requiring the ability to communicate effectively to different audiences and to provide timely responses to a wide range of enquiries, often relating to complex matters.

You will be expected to be on call out of hours 1 week in every 3 for which a stand by allowance is payable, to undertake the Duty Emergency Planning Officer role covering both emergency and critical incidents.