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Job Post Details

Business Continuity Manager
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
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3.2
Birmingham
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Hybrid work
£55,105 - £62,475 a year
Part-time, Permanent, Full-time

Job details

£55,105 - £62,475 a year
Childcare, Annual leave, Employee discount, Company pension
Part-time, Permanent, Full-time
Hybrid work in Birmingham

Full job description

Details

Reference number

441500

Salary

£55,105 - £62,475
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
GBP

Job grade

Grade 7

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

DESNZ - Integrated Corporate Services - Operations

Type of role

Business Management and Improvement
Operational Delivery
Project Delivery
Risk Management
Security

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

  • Location
  • About the job
  • Benefits
  • Things you need to know
  • Apply and further information

Location

Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford

About the job

Job summary

The Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) is a new shared corporate service, launched in July 2023. It provides corporate services (HR, Finance, Digital, Commercial, Security and Estates) across the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT).

Our team of just over 300 professionals will be leading the way in how these functions will be delivered in the future. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of integrated corporate services for government and set the standard for quality, efficiency, and innovation in our field.

We offer great working benefits including a world-class pension, flexible working options and a career where your learning and development is taken seriously. We are enormously proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We support candidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Information about disability confidence and just some examples of the adjustments that you can request can be found in the reasonable adjustment section below.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

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Job description

This role is based within the Departmental Security Unit (DSU), which delivers protective security support to both the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) through a shared service approach. We are seeking a proactive, well-organised, and flexible Business Continuity professional to lead on the design, implementation, and ongoing management of a comprehensive Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).

As the Business Continuity Manager and recognised subject matter expert, you will provide strategic leadership and expert guidance on Business Continuity governance. You will support, advise, and mentor teams across the departments, many of whom may be unfamiliar with the full scope and principles of the Business Continuity framework.

This pivotal position ensures that both departments maintain robust and proportionate continuity plans for a wide range of potential disruptions, in accordance with Business Continuity Institute best practices and the ISO 22301 standard.

Person specification

The post holder will be responsible for implementing, maintaining and developing the BCMS for ICS, DESNZ and DSIT. This work involves leading various projects as part of a complex multi stakeholder programme of work to establish effective departmental wide business continuity planning.

Providing specialist business continuity advice and guidance, the post holder will lead engagement activity across ICS, DESNZ and DSIT with senior leaders to develop continuity planning.

The post holder will hold responsibility for the review and improvement of the Business Continuity Framework, aligned to the industry best practice.

Create and update a comprehensive suite of business continuity products, including plans, playbooks and response structures, integrating lessons from recent exercises and real-world incidents.

Provide strategic oversight and act as a senior escalation point during live incident response activities, ensuring effective coordination across incident management teams. Lead post-incident reviews, drive comprehensive reporting, and oversee the implementation of remediation actions to strengthen organisational resilience and continuous improvement.

Work collaboratively with Cabinet Office, other government departments, and partners to ensure ICS’s approach aligns with best practice business continuity and resilience frameworks, and to contribute to Cross-Government and/or cross-financial sector exercises and assurance.

Maintain with departmental colleagues, operational and tactical level Business Continuity Plans, assisting with the identification of local priority activities including associated Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).

Develop and deliver Business Continuity Management awareness training to a variety of audiences, including Emergency Response Team (ERT) members, introducing organisational resilience across the departments.


Validate DESNZ and DSIT Business Continuity Plans via an exercising regime and assuring regular testing of business-critical assets.

Represent DESNZ, DSIT and ICS at the Cross-Government Business Continuity Forum.

As the Business Continuity SME, engage with DESNZ, DSIT and ICS senior leaders to establish a quarterly Business Continuity Working Group, and provide relevant KPIs/metrics to the monthly ICS Service Delivery Board.

Act as a critical friend to ensure that DESNZ and DSIT service providers have processes in place for critical function delivery resilience.

Provide BCM advice and guidance to the members of the ICS Partner Organisation Security Working Group.


Strategic lead and contract manager for the ICS emergency notification system for c.8,000 colleagues across both departments and oversight of the development of an associated Incident Management Platform for BC related scenarios.

Manage the ICS DSU Duty Officer function, ensuring a 24/7 on call security function is maintained and occasional participation in the on-call rota (for which an allowance will be paid).

Line Management of 1 x HEO Deputy Business Continuity Manager and 1 x EO BC Co-ordinator.

As a line manager, you will be responsible for working with your members of staff to define their objectives, as well as managing their development and performance.

Essential Criteria

Familiarity with business continuity program life cycle plans and source deliverables (e.g., disaster recovery, continuity planning) is essential.

Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong networks and influence and motivate people at all levels, including managing upwards.

A strong track record of engaging, advising, influencing and communicating across an organisation or network, whilst projecting credibility and self-assurance.

Strong experience of developing plans, negotiating support and commitment from others, and determining priorities.

Ability to collaborate with others to develop an emergency plan.

Excellent strategic, problem solving, and analytical skills.

Ability to think through hypothetical situations and concepts and to identify risks and weaknesses in various business processes.

Associate Membership of the Business Continuity Institute (AMBCI), or higher.

Desirable Criteria

Demonstrable experience of working within a government department or similarly complex organisation.

Currently holds Contract Management Capability Programme (CMCP) Practitioner, or willing to attain this qualification within 3 months of taking post.

Memberships

Must hold CBCI 7.0 Certification, Or equivalent to CBCI 7.0

Behaviours

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

  • Changing and Improving
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Leadership

Technical skills

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

  • Business Continuity Management

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £55,105, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £15,963 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

  • A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
  • Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
  • A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
  • An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
  • Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.

Office attendance

The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.

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 for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

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

After submission of the first stage of your application you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Numerical Test and Civil Service Judgement Test. If you successfully pass the test, you will be invited to complete the final stage of the application.

Please complete the online tests as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended), the closing date for the tests is 23:55 on 12/01/2026. If you fail to complete the online test before the deadline your application will be withdrawn. Guidance for the test will be available when you are invited to take the test. The tests are administered online and accessed via the CS Jobs website.

Our online test supplier will be performing scheduled maintenance between 4:00pm and 7:00pm on 04/01/2026. There will be up to 1 hour during this time where candidates will not be able to access tests.

All online tests will be affected.

Impact for candidates

Candidates who are taking a test when the downtime starts will have their test paused. They will be able to pick up where they left off after the downtime. They can do this by accessing the test again from their application centre.

Candidates will not be able to launch new tests during the downtime.

Candidates reporting issues should be advised to return to take the test after 7:00pm on 04/01/2026.

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV, personal statement and technical skills.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Please use your personal statement (in no more than 750 words) to explain how your knowledge, experience, and skills specifically align with the essential criteria for this role.

Applications will be sifted on personal statements, CV and any technical skills required.

In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the personal statement.

Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

The interview will consist of behaviour and technical questions.

Interviewees will be asked to deliver a presentation; further details will be provided nearer the time.

Sift and interview dates

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Further Information

Reasonable Adjustment

We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions.

Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our DESNZ Candidate Guidance. A DESNZ Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available.

We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants section.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.

Candidates who meet the minimum benchmark may be placed on a Reserve List for consideration for similar roles, including those at a lower grade. Candidates who narrowly miss the benchmark and are not placed on the Reserve List may still be considered for an offer in a similar role at a lower grade.

Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.

Any move to the Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.

DESNZ does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).

DESNZ cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign.

DESNZ holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.

However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Feedback


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)
  • 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
Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code 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 .
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 the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans 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 : Paul Williams
  • Email : paul.williams@ics.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : desnzresourcing.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance DESNZrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission/Complaints

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