Digital Business Continuity Manager at Homes England, Newcastle-upon-Tyne/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).

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a Disability Confident employer, Homes England encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, Homes England welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.