Senior Civil Contingencies Liaison Officer

This is an Expression of Interest (EOI) opportunity, available on a lateral move basis only. Applications are open to Core Scottish Government employees only. Job Title - Scottish Government Liaison Officer Business Area/Directorate - DSDCC Working Arrangement – Staff in roles compatible with hybrid working should aim to spend 40% of their contracted working time working in person at their contractual workplace. More information can be found within Hybrid Working Policy Grade - B3 Advert type - Level Transfer Duration - Permanent Eligibility - Expressions of interest are invited from substantive colleagues on level transfer from Core SG Only. Skilled Worker sponsorship is not available for this role. As a result, we are unable to appoint candidates who require Skilled Worker sponsorship now or in the future. Applicants must have an existing and ongoing right to work in the UK. Overview Are you looking for a role where you can use your strong stakeholder management skills and experience? Whenever there’s an emergency in Scotland, a number of different organisations immediately start working together to tackle it. Working together, these organisations form a ‘resilience partnership’, which helps them to coordinate, collaborate and share information. Standing regional and local resilience partnerships meet year-round across Scotland to plan for emergencies and to take part in exercises to test those plans. This role will involve being a Scottish Government Liaison Officer to support Resilience partnerships in times of emergency and in their planning for emergencies, offering an opportunity for a B3 to join the Civil Contingencies Liaison Team within Civil Contingencies Division. The team consists of a C1 and 7 B3s. The Civil Contingencies Liaison Team is the main point of contact with the Resilience Partnership structure and works collaboratively with policy areas and a wide range of stakeholders to facilitate, support and advise on multi-agency emergency planning, response and recovery across Scotland. Civil Contingency Liaison Officers are the interface between the Scottish Government and response partners, serving Ministers and meeting partner needs. The team works in partnership to set the strategic direction and support responders to meet their Civil Contingencies Act duties. This involves delivering training, supporting partners in their planning and acting as Scottish Government Liaison Officers during incidents. Key Responsibilities Support multi-agency emergency planning, response and recovery. Provide support to multi-agency groups where this already agreed – Scottish Resilience Partnership, Regional Resilience Partnership, Regional Resilience Partnership Sub-Groups, Strategic Local Resilience Partnerships & Local Resilience Partnership Working Groups. Maintain effective lines of communication and information flows between Resilience Partnerships and all relevant parts of the Scottish Government, ensuring SG priorities are communicated clearly to partners.. Where required, lead on thematic areas of work across Scotland to drive consistency, improve planning, understand the national picture and to identify and mitigate gaps. Delivery of multi-agency training packages produced by Civil Contingencies Development Team (CCD). Facilitation and assistance with multi-agency exercising, ensuring information flow with CCD for awareness and lessons capture. Delivery of multi-agency debriefing, as part of a wider cadre, ensuring the National Debriefing and Lessons Protocol is followed. Maintain an awareness of the content and progress of RRP and LRP work programmes Participate in a 24/7 on call rota to facilitate and support an effective and coordinated response to incidents and emergencies Act as a Scottish Government Liaison Officer (SGLO) during an incident, ensuring the Scottish Government Resilience Room (SGORR) is apprised of relevant information. Provide a read out to SGORR of any Resilience Partnership meetings held in activation, and also that key SGORR information is fed back to the RP. Support Police Scotland in the initial activation of Resilience Partnerships in response. It will not involve leading or providing admin/secretariat support to the meetings Maintain effective lines of communication and information flows between Resilience Partnerships and all relevant parts of the Scottish Government, ensuring SG priorities are communicated clearly to partners. Leading for our area on briefing or input to briefing and advice to Ministers, FMQs and core briefs and contributing to the work of other policy areas. Coordinating input to FOI requests. Act as a Scottish Government Liaison Officer (SGLO) during an incident, ensuring the Scottish Government Resilience Room (SGORR) is apprised of relevant information. Provide a read out to SGORR of any Resilience Partnership meetings held in activation, and also that key SGORR information is fed back to the RP. Assist in the initial activation of Resilience Partnerships in response, such as co-ordination of meeting invite, where this is currently supported. It will not involve leading or providing admin/secretariat support to the meetings Success Profile Success profiles are specific to each job and they include the mix of behaviours, experience and technical criteria (if applicable) that candidates will be assessed on. Experience: Strong experience working with both internal and external stakeholders, including experience of providing high quality advice and support to senior officials and/or Ministers Behaviours: Communicating and influencing - Level 3 Seeing the big picture – Level 3 Working together – Level 3 You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours, here: Success Profiles - Civil Service Behaviours (publishing.service.gov.uk) Working Pattern This post is a full-time role, but we welcome applications from staff with different working patterns, proposed working patterns will be assessed against the business requirements for this post. Our standard hours are 35 hours per week and we offer a range of flexible working options depending on the needs of the role, including Flexi-leave. Scottish Government staff in hybrid-compatible roles should aim to work in-person 40% of the time, either in an office or other agreed work location. If you have specific questions about the role you are applying for, please contact us. Further information Further information on this opportunity is available from [email protected] How to Apply Please submit an Expression of Interest (maximum 500 words) outlining your suitability for the role, relevant skills and experience, and what you would bring to the team. Please align this to how you meet the behaviours, experience and technical skills listed in the Success Profile above. Vacancy closes at 23:59 on Friday 7 August Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be used to support your application, but all statements and examples 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, and presented as your own) applications will be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in recruitment. If invited for further assessment, this will consist of an informal discussion. Discussions are scheduled for w/c 17 August however this may be subject to change. Recruitment Principles As a government organisation, we adhere to the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles and we investigate any complaints received in relation to recruitment cases. About us The Scottish Government is the devolved government for Scotland. We have responsibility for a wide range of key policy areas including: education, health, the economy, justice, housing and transport. We offer rewarding careers and employ people across Scotland in a wide range of professions and roles. Our staff are part of the UK Civil Service observing the Civil Service Code and working for Ministers and senior stakeholders to deliver vital public services which improve the lives of the people of Scotland. We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment along with a wide range of employee benefits. Find out more about what we offer . As part of the UK Civil Service, we uphold the Civil Service Nationality Rules . Security checks Successful candidates must complete the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), before they can be appointed. BPSS is comprised of four main pre-employment checks – Identity, Right to work, Employment History and a Criminal Record check (unspent convictions). You can find out more about BPSS on the UK Government website , or read about the different levels of security checks in our Candidate Guide . Equality statement We are committed to equality and inclusion and we aim to recruit a diverse workforce that reflects the population of our nation. Find out more about our commitment to diversity and how we offer and support recruitment adjustments for anyone who needs them. Further information Find out more about our organisation, what we offer staff members and how to apply on our Careers Website . Read our Candidate Guide for further information on our recruitment and application processes. Apply before: Friday 7 August (23:59)