Resilience and Security Manager

Are you excited by the opportunity to influence safer and more secure travel for customers in Greater Manchester? Do you want to be part of a team that makes a direct contribution to improving resilience, protective security and emergency preparedness for staff, customers and the wider Bee Network?

Your Role

In this role you will contribute directly to helping make travel safer and more resilient for customers by supporting TfGM’s response to disruption, delivering mandatory security requirements, strengthening counter-terrorism protective security arrangements and supporting the Greater Manchester family response to major emergencies.

As a Resilience & Security Manager, you will play a key role in delivering Transport for Greater Manchester’s Resilience work programme and security preparedness activity. You’ll take ownership of your own portfolio of work while working across multiple teams, operators and partner agencies to strengthen organisational resilience, support strategic initiatives and help embed proportionate protective security across TfGM’s operations.

• Support the development and delivery of business continuity, emergency planning and counter-terrorism protective security arrangements across TfGM.
• Identify and risk assess critical and vulnerable locations across the Bee Network and help develop proportionate protective security plans to minimise disruption and safeguard staff, customers, infrastructure and surrounding communities.
• Provide resilience and protective security advice to internal teams, senior managers, operators and key suppliers, helping ensure plans and procedures are robust, risk-based and aligned to agreed work programmes.
• Support TfGM’s security compliance activity, including engagement with Department for Transport inspection and regulatory requirements where required.
• Work with Greater Manchester Police, British Transport Police, Counter Terrorism Security Advisors, emergency services, local authorities, operators and other partners to ensure transport issues are reflected in multi-agency planning and response arrangements.
• Contribute to incident response readiness, event planning, internal security exercises and lessons learned activity to drive continuous improvement in TfGM’s resilience and security arrangements.

For more information, please see the role profile at the bottom of the advert.

Who are we?

It’s a critical and exciting time for public transport in Greater Manchester, and we’re seeking a Resilience & Security Manager to join our Resilience team and help shape and develop the organisation’s resilience and security preparedness capability.

What you’ll bring

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

You will build strong relationships with internal and external partners, influencing stakeholders and communicating complex resilience and counter terrorism / security issues clearly.

You will have excellent report-writing skills, knowledge of resilience, emergency planning, protective security or a related field, and an understanding of relevant regulations.

Experience in public transport, civil contingencies or emergency management is desirable.

The role requires sound judgement, the ability to perform under pressure, and confidence in handling sensitive information and supporting security governance.

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work with partners from emergency services, local authorities through the Greater Manchester Resilience Unit (GMRU) ensuring TfGM delivers its responsibilities under the Civil Contingencies Act as a category 2 responder.

For this role you will be required to have Police and national security vetting, work flexibly, participate in on-call rotas and operational activities as required. If the role is extended, you will be required to also undertake national security vetting to ‘CTC ’ level.

What we can offer you

This is a permanent with a salary of £50,532 – £56,195 p.a. depending on experience.

At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. We are happy to #talkflexibleworking to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.

Our benefits include:

• Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
• Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
• Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
• Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website

What’s next?

If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

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