Digital Business Continuity Manager at Homes England, Newcastle/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

As a Digital Business Continuity Manager, your main responsibilities will be:

• Implement, manage and improve Homes England’s Business Continuity Management approach.
• Responsible for the delivery of regular reviews of business continuity capability, including leading continuous improvement activity as required.
• Establish robust and challenging business continuity delivery schedules, clearly showing what, how, who and when and highlighting the critical path.
• Lead engagement and communication activity planning for areas of Homes England to support the understanding and delivery of business continuity planning, requirements and review timelines.
• Ensure that Homes England activities in their area of responsibility are delivered in line with relevant standards and best practice.
• Lead the development of training and exercising programmes to deliver joint business continuity development and preparedness programmes of work across the Agency. This will involve providing facilitation between the areas where appropriate to support the delivery of exercises to exercise business continuity plans.
• Provide specialist business continuity advice and guidance to areas across Homes England, to support the continued professional development of business continuity capability.

Essential:

• Recent experience of major incident response and crisis management and/or a good working knowledge of multi-agency preparedness and response activities.
• Experience in business continuity planning/business impact analysis (BIA).
• Recent experience in the design, delivery, implementation, and management of business continuity capability at organisational level.
• An understanding of integrating disaster recovery into business continuity planning is desirable.
• 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).