Head of Resilience
Role overview
The Head of Resilience is a leadership position that requires an experienced specialist to manage the organisation’s preparedness against major disruption. The role is responsible for designing, executing, and continuously improving the strategies that ensure our essential public services can withstand and quickly recover from security attacks, system failures, and other threats.
This role demands a proven professional who can lead all preparedness efforts and guarantee strict compliance with all relevant government policies, standards, and regulatory mandates.
Role level
Typical role expectations
- Design, lead, and execute the complete operational resilience framework, ensuring it meets national mandates and adheres to top standards like ISO 22301.
- Oversee all resilience activities to guarantee strict alignment with government security regulations and policies.
- Provide expert guidance across the business on risk analysis, pinpointing weaknesses that could violate our agreed-upon impact tolerances for critical government functions.
- Drive the Business Continuity Programme, coordinating cross-departmental teams to develop, implement, and maintain effective BC plans and solutions.
- Design, conduct, and report on rigorous business continuity, operational resilience, and crisis management exercises to challenge procedures and ensure continuous improvement.
- Use excellent stakeholder management to clearly communicate critical resilience and security risks and recommendations directly to Senior Leadership and the Board.
- Maintain expert knowledge of security policy and controls, and deliver targeted training and awareness programs to embed resilience disciplines organisation-wide.
Skills
| Skill | Principal |
|---|---|
| Business continuity management | Expert |
| Incident management, incident investigation and response | Expert |
| Information risk assessment and risk management | Expert |
| Protective security | Expert |
| Risk understanding and mitigation | Expert |
| Threat intelligence and threat assessment | Expert |
| Threat understanding | Expert |
Core learning
LRD512: Security Leadership Essentials for Managers
BCS Certificate in Information Security Management Principles
Certified Security Risk Manager