Resilience Manager

Grade J; £46,142 to £50,269

Contract: Permanent 37hrs per week

Role specifics: Must be Educated to a degree level or equivalent and / or five years’ experience in a relevant professional field and able to demonstrate equivalent educational standard. Hold full UK driving licence.

Interview date: Wednesday 20th May 2026

For further information about this role, contact: jodene.bibby@bolton.gov.uk

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

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The Role
Salary Grade J; scp35 £46,142 to scp39 £50,269 pay award pending.

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced Resilience Manager to manage the delivery of emergency planning and resilience activity, to ensure that the Council is affective in anticipating and responding to any civil emergencies and disruption to service delivery, in line with the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

The successful candidate will;
Lead on the development and implementation of emergency & business continuity plans and procedures, ensuring that Council services are equipped to meet their statutory duty.

Prepare and implement the Council’s incident management arrangements, ensuring an effective, co-ordinated response to and recovery from significant incidents including capture of post event lessons learned from duty responders.

Will work with corporate leads to ensure an effective business continuity planning process at a corporate level, offering advice and guidance at a directorate and service level, which will assist directorates to co-ordinate activity in the event of disruptive incidents.

Develop and maintain strong relationships with partner agencies, ensuring shared planning, preparedness, response and recovery to incidents and emergencies, including Greater Manchester Resilience Unit (GMRU) and the borough’s Health Protection Board.

Contribute to the corporate risk register linking corporate, directorate and service risks to business continuity plans where appropriate.

About You
As a highly motivated Resilience Manager, you will have experience of successfully managing emergency incidents or crisis situations, including dealing with people in challenging situations.

You will be able to coordinate and communicate effectively with all levels of the organisation and external agencies in the public, private and voluntary sector. You will be able to use your own initiative and be proactive, as well as having the aptitude to constructively challenge processes when required.

You will also be able to analyse and problem-solve complex issues, evaluate options and apply knowledge to emergency situations and critical / major incidents.

About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk