FULL TIME, PERMANENT

Bristol City Council’s Emergency Preparedness and Resilience Team (EPRT) are looking for two dynamic and enthusiastic Emergency Planning Officer’s to join our busy and hardworking team.
You will join a small team of experienced professionals committed to ensuring the City Council is prepared for, and ready and able to respond to and recover from, any emergencies or disruptive challenges that may affect the City, the Council and our Communities.
You will possess current knowledge of civil contingency legislation, other relevant regulations and multi-agency resilience practice, including business continuity aspects. You will have excellent planning and organisational skills and you will be able to deliver effective and accessible emergency plans from inception to validation.
More than that though, we are looking for someone with a range of complementary skills to bring emergency planning, training and exercising to life for wide and varied audiences, both inside and outside the Council. This will require excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a genuine enthusiasm for the value of effective emergency planning; making sure Bristol City Council is able to support our citizens, cooperate with our multi-agency partners and keep our services running when it really matters.
Bristol is a vibrant and dynamic city, with a range of environmental, economical and infrastructure risks and opportunities to consider, whilst keeping the welfare of our diverse communities at the forefront of our minds.
So we are looking for someone who is ‘people focussed’, who can assist us in building resilience, support strategies to build in mitigations to the risks we face and who fundamentally understands that, first and foremost, our preparedness and planning needs to be about supporting our citizens, empowering our communities, and helping people across Bristol who have been affected by unforeseen events.
A knowledge of Bristol, it’s communities and infrastructure is desirable, but not essential. The ability to work as a member of a small team and collaboratively with a wide range of partners and stakeholders; the emergency services, other Council teams, voluntary agencies, businesses and many others, is essential.
The team operates a duty officer rota on a 24/7 basis which you must be able and willing to take part in. An additional standby duty allowance will be paid on joining the rota. You should live, or plan to live, less than an hour and half (01:30hrs) travel time to Bristol City Council’s Temple Street offices.

Please refer the Job description for details