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About the Role

This role will lead on the coordination, support, and continuous improvement of Borough Resilience Forums (BRFs), ensuring local resilience arrangements align with the London Resilience Forum Strategy, Civil Contingencies Act requirements, and UK Government Resilience Action Plan ambitions. Success will be measured by stronger local resilience capability, improved consistency across BRFs, effective sharing of good practices, and increased confidence in local resilience arrangements.

Responsibilities

Develop strong, trusted relationships with BRF Chairs and secretariats to enable effective information flow, peer learning, and issue escalation.
Directly support BRFs to strengthen their governance, planning, exercising, learning, and partnership coordination.
Advise, influence, and challenge BRFs on their ways of working, sharing good practice, and seeking pan-London consistency.
Analyze BRF activity and performance to identify themes, risks, and emerging issues.
Prepare high-quality reports and recommendations for London Resilience governance groups.
Represent London Resilience Unit in relevant meetings, championing the role and value of local resilience arrangements.
Perform the role in accordance with GLA's policies and code of ethics and standards, including health and safety.
Promote and enable equality of opportunities and diverse needs and aspirations of London's communities.

Requirements

Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to build strong working relationships with multi-agency partners.
Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including the ability to communicate complex information through written reports, presentations, and verbal briefings.
Adapt communication style to suit the needs of different audiences.
Proven experience of coordinating partnerships, networks, or place-based activity, ideally within resilience, emergency planning, community safety, or other relevant policy areas.
Demonstrated ability to analyze and synthesize information from multiple sources.
Ability to turn insight into practical recommendations or action plans.
Understanding of multi-agency working and the role of local government, emergency services, health, voluntary, and community sectors in preparedness, response, and recovery.
Ability to work consistently to agreed standards, identifying both gaps and good practice.
Ability to facilitate information exchange, targeting areas to support where capability may be less mature.
Experience of working across organizational boundaries, ideally with an understanding of London’s resilience governance and risk landscape.
Must meet essential criteria outlined in the advert.
Submit an up-to-date CV.
Submit a personal statement with a maximum of 1500 words addressing essential criteria.
CV and Personal Statement must have a maximum file size of 1.5MB each.
Upload Personal Statement to the ‘CV and Cover Letters’ section.
CV and Personal Statement should be in Word or PDF format.
Do not include photographs or images in CV and Personal Statement.
Save CV and Personal Statement with the job reference number as part of the naming convention.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record (DBS) check.
Some roles may require additional security screening.
Post holders must be willing to undergo National Security Vetting to the level of SC.
SC requires the post holder to have been resident in the UK for five years.
Existing National Security Vetting is not required to apply.

Skills

Interpersonal skills
Relationship building
Written communication
Verbal communication
Adapting communication style
Partnership coordination
Network coordination
Place-based activity coordination
Resilience
Emergency planning
Community safety
Information analysis
Information synthesis
Developing recommendations
Action planning
Multi-agency working
Local government understanding
Emergency services understanding
Health sector understanding
Voluntary sector understanding
Community sector understanding
Consistent work ethic
Identifying gaps
Identifying good practice
Information exchange facilitation
Cross-organizational collaboration
London's resilience governance understanding
London's risk landscape understanding
Building & Managing Relationships
Stakeholder Focus
Communicating and Influencing
Problem-Solving

Location

Palestra, London

Work Type

Fixed Term Contract – 12 months
Hybrid working up to 3 days a week in offices and remotely

Experience Level

Level 1 (for competencies)

Salary/Compensations

£48,427 per annum

Benefits

30 days’ annual leave
Interest free season ticket loan
Interest free bicycle loan
Career average pension scheme

About the Company

Strategy and Communications sits at the centre of the organisation, bringing together several teams with organisation-wide remits and mutual collaboration opportunities.
The work of the directorate’s teams includes delivery of major events, designing and leading public affairs or marketing campaigns, providing data, evidence and analysis, leading cross-organisational programmes, to making sure we plan for and can respond to emerging events or emergencies in our city.
Working with over 170 organisations the London Resilience Unit delivers and coordinates resilience services across the capital on behalf of the Mayor of London and Local Authorities.
London Resilience Unit supports the work of London's key agencies in assessing risks, working to reduce the likelihood or impact of those risks and, where risk can't be eliminated, preparing arrangements to respond, recover and learn from emergencies.

Equal Opportunity

As part of GLA’s continuing commitment to be an inclusive and equal opportunity employer we will be removing personal identifiable information from CVs and Personal Statements that could cause discrimination.
London's diversity is its biggest asset, and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London's diversity at all levels.
We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements.
We would welcome applications from candidates who are seeking part time work as this role is open to job share.
We are a Disability Confident Employer.
For candidates who wish to be considered under the scheme and meet the essential criteria, they will automatically be invited to interview.
Should you require any adjustments through the process, we will accommodate as much as possible.