Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall LE3 8RA
Salary: £35,451 – £39,165 per annum (pro rata for part time) (pay award pending) + standby allowance when on-call
Working Hours: 37hrs per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Friday 4 th September 2026
Interview Date(s): Thursday 17 th and Friday 18 th September 2026
Join the LLR Local Authority Resilience Partnership and help strengthen community resilience across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. You will work with local authorities, partner organisations and communities to improve preparedness, build resilience capacity and support effective planning for a range of risks and emergencies.
About the Role
Are you interested in helping communities and organisations become better prepared for emergencies and disruption?
Leicestershire County Council is looking for a Resilience Officer to join the LLR Local Authority Resilience Partnership. The role will help strengthen community resilience across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland by supporting local authorities, partner organisations and communities to understand risks, develop practical plans and build their own resilience capacity.
You will work with a range of organisations to support emergency planning, business continuity, training, exercising and lessons learning. You will help partners prepare for risks such as severe weather, flooding, animal disease and pandemic flu, with a focus on improving readiness before incidents occur.
Incident response is part of the role through the Resilience Partnership Duty Officer rota, but the main focus is on preparedness, partnership working and building long-term resilience across organisations and communities.
As part of this role, you will be required to join the Resilience Partnership Duty Officer rota, which involves being on call for around 6 to 7 weeks each year.
About You
To apply for this post, you must be able to evidence in your application how you meet the following criteria:
- Degree or diploma in emergency planning, resilience, disaster management, community safety, public service, business continuity, or demonstrable relevant experience.
- Experience of developing, reviewing or supporting emergency, contingency, resilience or business continuity plans.
- Experience of working with communities, voluntary sector groups, public sector partners or other organisations to improve preparedness and resilience.
- Ability to build relationships with a range of organisations and support them to achieve shared objectives.
- Experience of developing or delivering training, briefings, workshops or exercise materials.
- Ability to communicate clearly with different audiences, including professional partners, community groups and elected members.
- Ability to support organisations to understand risk and improve their own resilience arrangements.
- Ability to work flexibly, solve problems and respond to changing priorities.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to produce clear written work.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and to delivering accessible and inclusive services which meet the needs of all of our residents. You will be asked to demonstrate your understanding of these commitments as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability. We are a Disability Confident Employer .
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are open to discussions about flexible working, which may include part time working, job sharing, term-time working, flexible start and finish times, and hybrid working, depending on the requirements of the role and the service. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Tim Herbert - Senior Resilience Officer
Telephone: 07805 300307
Email: [email protected]
How to Apply
At Leicestershire County Council we’re looking for top talent from all walks of life. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, and whatever your background - we care about what you bring to our organisation, not just what’s on your CV. That’s why we’ve designed a recruitment process that’s fair, accessible, and focused on potential. And with benefits that support people at every age and stage of life, we make sure you can thrive - both personally and professionally.
If you share our passion to make a difference for the people of Leicestershire, we’d love to hear from you. Click the apply button to submit your application, ensuring that you upload a supporting statement that explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. Without this information, we won’t be able to assess your suitability for the role, and your application will be rejected. For tips on how to write your statement, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support .
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