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About the Role

This role is an opportunity to play a leading role in developing how London’s public, private, and voluntary organizations work together to prepare for emergencies and deliver the London Resilience Strategy. You will help lead governance and assurance arrangements across the London Resilience Forum, where responsibilities for London's resilience are shared. This role involves turning strategic ambitions into practical action, introducing new approaches, and strengthening connections between organizations, sectors, and communities.

Responsibilities

Working with partners to create the conditions for the London Resilience Forum to take effective decisions, provide constructive challenge, and maintain accountability.
Identifying opportunities to improve how the partnership works, to make governance more purposeful, inclusive, and focused on outcomes.
Supporting development and delivery of the London Resilience Strategy, connecting priorities, activities, and resources to bring about desired changes.
Building relationships across and beyond London's resilience partnership to ensure diverse voices contribute to shaping resilience governance.
Convening and facilitating discussions between people and organizations to navigate complexity, build understanding, and agree on collective action.
Strengthening connections between London's regional partnership organizations and with 33 Borough Resilience Forums, recognizing the importance of local knowledge and place-based approaches.
Helping the resilience partnership understand how well its arrangements and capabilities work, identify gaps, and determine areas for improvement.
Encouraging curiosity and reflection to find practical ways to improve resilience through good practice.

Requirements

Comfortable with complex or ambiguous challenges, working across organizational boundaries, and turning strategic ambitions into practical action.
Ability to build trusted relationships, listen to different perspectives, and help people find common ground.
Ability to constructively question established approaches, identify opportunities for improvement, and help turn ideas into meaningful change.
Understanding the value of diverse perspectives and supporting the development and wellbeing of others to create conditions for effective team performance.
Must meet essential criteria outlined in the advert.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record (DBS) check; some roles may require additional security screening.

Skills

Strategic Thinking
Building and Managing Relationships
Managing and Developing Performance
Problem Solving
Communicating and Influencing
Understanding of governance, public policy, legislation, or emergency preparedness is valuable.
Transferable skills and an appetite for working collaboratively are sought.

Location

Palestra/Hybrid

Work Type

Permanent
Full-time
Hybrid working up to 3 days a week in offices and remotely

Experience Level

Seniority details not explicitly stated, but implied by responsibilities and required competencies.

Salary/Compensations

£64,690 per annum (plus on call allowance)

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 teams working across the organisation to help deliver the Mayor's priorities for London.
The work of the directorate includes delivery of major events, public affairs campaigns, research and analysis, and preparing for the challenges and emergencies that London may face.
London is a complex, diverse and constantly changing city. Making it more resilient means understanding the risks we face, strengthening our ability to prepare for and respond to emergencies, and learning and adapting as circumstances change.
The London Resilience Unit works with organisations and communities across the capital to make that happen.
We support the London Resilience Forum, bringing together emergency services, local and national government, infrastructure providers, businesses, voluntary and community organisations and others.

Equal Opportunity

We particularly encourage applications from people in groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
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.
Please note we are a Disability Confident Employer so for candidates who wish to be considered under the scheme and meet the essential criteria, they will automatically be invited to interview.
Please note, should you require any adjustments through the process, we will accommodate as much as possible.
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.