Resilience Officer - Degree Apprenticeship

About You

Ready to make a difference? Join Our Team as a Resilience and Emergency Response Specialist!

Are you passionate about making a difference and ensuring the safety and resilience of communities?

Do you thrive in dynamic environments where innovation and quick adaptation are key?

If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

Main Purpose of the Job :

As a Resilience and Emergency Response Apprentice, you will embark on a journey to develop the skills necessary to support the planning and delivery of emergency response and business continuity arrangements. Your role will be pivotal in ensuring our organisation is prepared for, can effectively respond to, and recover from incidents, providing assurance to communities, stakeholders, executive, and board.

You will play a crucial part in maintaining and enhancing our ability to keep people safe, protect the environment, and build resilience across the communities we serve.

Key Responsibilities :

• Facilitate the organisation's response to incidents, ensuring swift and effective action.
• Develop and review emergency response arrangements and the required supporting documentation.
• Plan and deliver training and exercises as part of a comprehensive program.
• Develop and review business continuity arrangements and the necessary supporting documentation.
• Identify and assess risks systematically to ensure preparedness.
• Maintain, apply, and improve management and governance systems to ensure an effective response capability.
• Debrief live incidents and training sessions to identify lessons and implement them as part of a continual improvement cycle.
• Horizon scan for emerging risks and opportunities to stay ahead of potential challenges.
• Proactively engage with internal and external stakeholders on resilience issues.
• Complete a level 6 undergraduate degree apprenticeship in resilience and emergencies management.

Why Join Us?

If you're ready to take on a role that makes a real difference, apply now and become a vital part of our team dedicated to resilience and emergency response!

To find out more about The Mining Remediation Authority, and the Resilience Officer Degree Apprenticeship, we would like to invite you to a webinar being held on May 7th at 18 : 00 - 19 : 00 BST.

Please follow the link to sign up.

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About The Role

If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.

Role location : Hybrid working (on average 2.5 days working out of our Mansfield office)

Schedule :

Webinar : 7th May 2025

Application closing date : 14th May 2025

Sifting date : 15th & 16th May 2025

Assessment day : 22nd May 2025

If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)

Security :

Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.

Unfortunately we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role.

About Mining Remediation Authority

Our benefits :

Working with us :

We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible : flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.

With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.

Who we are :

Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.

We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.

We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.

We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion :

As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria who are disabled or from a minority ethnic community.

We want to recruit you based on your skills and experience, and not the colour of your skin, where you come from, or who you share your life with.  What’s important is that you can carry out your role effectively.  That’s why, when you submit your application to us, we remove all your personal data before the hiring manager reviews your details.  If you are successful and you join us, you can be confident that this is because we trust that you will be successful and can make a difference.

By continuing to improve our diversity, we continue to improve our knowledge and innovation and live our values of being trusted, inclusive and progressive.

If you have the skills and experience that we are looking for, but you require an alternative application form or other reasonable adjustments to apply, let us know.  You can get in touch by email at [email protected] or give us a call on 01623 637000