Vacancies Emergency Planning Project Support Officer

Job Introduction

Are you a dynamic, self-motivated individual with the ability to work creatively and accurately under pressure while sticking to tight deadlines? Do you have a passion for technical innovation while delivering work to the highest standards? Are you devoted to continuous improvement, delivering benefits for organisations and the public? We may just have your ideal role!

The Emergency Planning function are currently working on several projects to improve our approach to business continuity management, response and recovery capabilities, and risk management and we're looking for Support Officers to join our motivated, forward-thinking team.

This is an 18 month fixed term post.

Internal applicants: if you plan to apply for this role on a secondment basis please make sure you have followed the process here for gaining approval from your current line manager. If you are offered the role and you do not have agreement this will cause significant delays to the process.

Main Responsibility

You’ll play a pivotal part in supporting continuous improvement across the emergency planning function. Working closely with our emergency planning officers and head of emergency planning, you’ll manage projects and ensure the delivery of our core functions (Business continuity management, risk management, training and exercising and response & recovery from incidents).

Some of the tasks you might undertake as part of the role are:

• Support the scoping and implementation of new strategic priorities, policies and plans across the emergency planning function to ensure the functions provided are resilient and efficient
• Lead on project management, working in collaboration with colleagues across the core functions of emergency planning utilising the full project cycle, working with service representatives, via workshops and group meetings.
• Assist with projects reviewing; governance monitoring, efficiency, value for money, health and safety and county assets
• Create a data analysis process to determine monitoring of functions and progress on projects

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for you to have,

• Excellent communication skills because you’ll interact with lots of people across the organisation and external partners and contractors.
• Credible experience of quickly building effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
• Good planning and organisation skills as you’ll be working to tight deadlines.
• Ability to analyse technical functionality and translate it into easy-to-understand guidance.
• An eye for detail with ability to identify issues and solutions quickly.
• A flexible approach to work as sometimes things can change, and so you’ll need to be able to prioritise work and sometimes change focus quickly.
• Full knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 and the ability to utilise the main applications.

An advert and job description only tells you so much - we'd love to hear from you.

If you'd like a further discussion about the role, please contact Adam Cooper (adam.cooper@staffordshire.gov.uk).

Shortlisting: week commencing 25 August 2025

Interviews to be held week commencing 8 September 2025

We're happy to talk flexible working and we'll consider applications on a full or part time basis.

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a GoldAward Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as yourapplication meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.

Emergency Planning Project Support Officer