Business Continuity Manager
Job summary
We have a great opportunity for a Business Continuity Manager to help strengthen HM Land Registry’s organisational resilience and ensure we can continue to deliver critical services during disruption.
Working closely with colleagues across the business, you will lead the development, maintenance and exercising of practical, proportionate Business Continuity Plans, helping teams understand their continuity arrangements and build confidence in how they would respond during an incident.
Reporting to the Corporate Business Continuity Lead, the Business Continuity Manager is responsible for the day-to-day delivery and continuous improvement of HMLR’s Business Continuity Management System (BCMS), ensuring that directorates, services and sites are prepared to respond to and recover from disruption. You will provide subject matter expertise, guidance and tools to support operational preparedness, and support Bronze Command activity during incidents to enable effective local response, escalation and recovery.
Job description
In this role you will be responsible for leading the development and ongoing improvement of Business Continuity Plans across all areas and locations, ensuring they are practical, current and aligned with organisational needs. Key duties include managing the Business Continuity Management System, delivering documentation and processes, providing expertise and guidance to support risk management, and designing realistic continuity exercises. You will coordinate incident response, maintaining thorough incident logs, supporting post-incident reviews, and promoting effective stakeholder relationships. A key part of the role will be identifying and addressing gaps in resilience, and supporting organisation-wide exercises to ensure strategic and operational alignment.Person specification
You will have:
- Professional certification in business continuity, such as MBCI or equivalent.
- Practical experience working in business continuity, resilience or incident management.
- Experience developing and maintaining business continuity deliverables, such as Business Impact Assessments, Business Continuity Plans, exercise plans or test schedules.
- Experience supporting or coordinating responses to incidents or disruption, including working with operational teams to implement continuity arrangements and escalate issues appropriately.
- Experience designing or supporting business continuity exercises, capturing lessons learned and turning those lessons into improvements.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across business areas, provide clear guidance and build capability in non-specialist teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, practical documentation and guidance.
- The ability to manage competing priorities and deliver outcomes in a busy or changing environment.
For more information about the role, please see the attached job description.
Where an individual taking up the responsibility will be based in Swansea Office, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable. This will not be tested in the application or interview process.
Qualifications
Professional certification in business continuity (MBCI or similar).Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £45,514, HM Land Registry contributes £13,185 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.#WeAreHMLR
At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.
We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.
- We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
- We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
- We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
- We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.
You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.
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.How to Apply
Please complete the qualification question:
Do you have a professional certification in business continuity (MBCI or similar).
If you answer no, your application will stop here.
Then please complete your CV to include your work history and qualifications. We will be scoring your CV against the following technical and essential experience:
- Professional business continuity experience, including development or maintenance of Business Impact Assessments, Business Continuity Plans, exercise plans or test schedules.
- Experience supporting incident response, resilience or continuity activity in an operational environment.
- Evidence of relevant business continuity certification, training or professional development.
Complete the Personal Statement section (in no more than 500 words), please demonstrate:
- How you have developed and implemented practical business continuity or resilience arrangements;
- How you have supported or coordinated an incident, disruption or continuity response; and
- How you have used exercises, testing or lessons learned to improve plans, processes or organisational readiness.
Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application.
Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications –this is 23:55 on the advertised date.
Sift
The sift will take place shortly after the closing date.
In case of a high volume of applications, we will complete a pre-sift on your CV.
Interview
If successful at shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a virtual, blended interview and deliver a pre-prepared presentation, details will be provided on invitation to interview. The blended interview will test the essential experience and behaviours listed in the Job Description.
We expect interviews to take place during the week commencing the 8th June 2026.
Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.
HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people.
If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.
Visa Sponsorship
Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role is in a certain business critical category. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a skilled worker visa.
You must ensure you have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying.
You can find more information on how we use your personal data on our website
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.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
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.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.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
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).Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Mark Sacks
- Email : mark.sacks@landregistry.gov.uk
Recruitment team
Further information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/Attachments
Business Continuity Manager Job Description Opens in new window (pdf, 204kB)BAU Candidate Pack 2026 Opens in new window (pdf, 1699kB)Salary range
- £45,514 per year