26.12 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Manager

Job summary

The Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Manager is responsible for supporting the development and providing assurance on DBS’ organisational BCDR framework, including development and maintenance of a testing programme.

You will support all DBS business areas to develop and maintain a One DBS approach to BCDR planning and activities necessary to enable DBS to manage a BCDR event.

You will provide subject matter expert (SME) advice to all key stakeholders across DBS (including Board and SLT) on BCDR matters, ensuring all policies and plans are appropriate, and fully embedded within the culture of DBS. Providing support to help them to develop their plans and control environments, underpinned by current best practices.

Job description

The role of BCDR Manager includes the following duties:

• Support the development of BCDR across DBS including the ongoing management, maintenance and development of all necessary documentation including but not limited to BCDR Plan, Major Incident Plan, Business Impact Assessments, Denial of Plans, etc. Identifying any gaps and developing and delivering action plans to fill these and supporting an annual review of all relevant corporate documentation. This includes coordination of the review, maintenance and periodic testing of business continuity and emergency response plans, working with across Directorates to ensure these plans remain valid and fit for purpose.
• Liaise with BCDR Champions across the business, providing guidance and assurance to Directorates on their Directorate BCDR plans, ensuring they are fully aligned to the corporate BCDR plan.
• Design and outline BCDR goals, objectives and challenge business leaders on identification of critical functions and ensure these are catered for within all BCDR
• Ensure DBS meets all compliance requirements as set out by our partners ie Home Office / Government Internal Audit Agency / relevant government standards.
• Development, coordination and delivery of a full schedule of scenarios and testing programme, including conducting risk assessments as required in relation to scenarios and incidents ensuring business best placed to deliver business continuity plan if enacted and identification of lessons learned, documenting evidence of actions completed, and ensuring lessons learned are incorporated and used to inform business continuous improvement decisions.
• Facilitate and support the execution of the plans at the time of a BCDR event and support the delivery of the Major Incident plan as required.
• Provide coordination support, visibility and reporting during a BCDR event, to include the impact of the event on critical services and functions.
• Provide outcome and lessons learned reports during and following a BCDR
• Manage and Chair BCDR Forum (committee established to support key suppliers and integrated services in the development of BCDR across DBS), ensuring action log is maintained and key suppliers' plans comply and align with DBS’ BCDR plans and requirements. This will involve working closely across Directorates and with the Supplier Management Team.
• Develop and deliver BCDR training and promote awareness across the business to develop DBS’ understanding of BCDR and the impacts this could have on the business and our ability to delivery our services in a BCDR event.
• Collaborate with key personnel and any external agencies/partners to understand strategic and tactical business, service requirements and document the activity business impact analysis for the purpose of developing appropriate business continuity plans.
• Provide support to and cover for Corporate Risk Manager as and when
• Membership of Assurance, Risk and Facilities Directorate Management
• Line management duties as and when required.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:-

• Ability to negotiate, influence and facilitate activities in order to deliver the corporate BCDR management function.
• Ability to operate within organisational objectives and policies, developing medium and long term objectives for the function.
• Excellent, written and verbal communications skills.
• Knowledge of BCDR management processes.
• Designing and implementing corporate BCDR plans/policies and all associated documentation such as business impact assessments, major incident plans, etc
• Designing and delivering BCDR testing schedule and utilisation of lessons learned
• Coordination of staff and services during a live BCDR incident
• Providing advice and guidance to senior leaders during a live BCDR incident to enable them to make well informed decisions
• Working at and challenging and influencing at executive/senior management level, including writing and presenting reports
• Experience and knowledge of BCDR management strategies to drive forward improvements within an organisational business.
• Developing and delivering reports and presenting at senior management/Board level.
• Designing and delivering training packages/ workshops to all staff including senior management/board level.
• Ability and confidence to question and advise a range of key stakeholders on risk at all levels of seniority
• Proven organisational and administrative skills and experience; the ability to work under own initiative and as a team player, to prioritise effectively and to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
• Qualification in relevant Business Continuity and/or Emergency Planning discipline(s) or significant work experience in the BCDR field.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, in particular Excel and ability to carry out task within Excel such as conditional formatting.

Desirable Skills:-

• Understanding and knowledge of ISO 22301 standard for Business Continuity.
• Knowledge of HMT guidance on BCDR.
• Understanding and practical application of a diverse range of Strategic and Operational Business Continuity areas relevant to DBS.
• Prince 2 Practitioner or Agile Project Management.
• Emergency Planning, Crisis Management and Business Continuity Planning
• Membership of the Business Continuity Institute
• Data visualisation and analysis.

Qualifications:-

Qualification in relevant Business Continuity and/or Emergency Planning discipline(s) or significant work experience in the BCDR field.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £44,221, Disclosure & Barring Service contributes £12,810 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The DBS offers a number of excellent benefits for its employees. These can include:

• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption schemes (after a qualifying period)
• Commitment to the health and wellbeing of our employees
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible working opportunities
• Eyecare voucher scheme
• Occupational Health Service including referrals for counselling and physiotherapy
• 24/7 Counselling and Wellbeing Service
• A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

The DBS vision and purpose is to make people safer by being a visible, trusted and influential organisation, providing an outstanding quality of service to all our customers and partners, where our people understand the important safeguarding contributions they make and feel proud to work here. To do this, the DBS is committed to being an employer that is able to attract, develop, retain and engage diverse talent that is representative of the communities we serve, and to be an organisation providing outstanding service to all our existing and new customers, who are diverse and have a range of different needs. We want all our staff to be able to bring their ‘whole self’ to work.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Selection process details

Please apply for this vacancy via the following link: http://amspsr.avature.net/careersmarketplace/JobDetail/7230

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

As part of the application process you will be asked to write a CV providing details of your employment history and how your skills and experience meet the essential and desirable criteria for this role.

Successful candidates will then be invited to present to the panel (details to follow if invited to interview). The presentation will be followed by interview where the following behaviours will be assessed:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : DBS People Support Team
• Email : DBSPeopleSupportTeam@dbs.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : DBSPeopleSupportTeam@dbs.gov.uk

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