Skills

Incident Response Quality Assurance Crisis Management Facilitation

Job Specifications

The ONS operates a flexible hybrid working model across the UK, with colleagues linked to one of our contractual locations working between office and remote throughout the week. The locations for this role are Newport and Titchfield (Fareham).

All colleagues are required to work from their contractually allocated site for at least 40% of their working time.

The induction process for the role will be conducted in person.

Job Summary

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.

Protective Security and Business Resilience Operations provide resiliency design,consultancy and advice to projects and business as usual operations, encompassing both subject areas. Services support secure by design and international business continuity standards and approaches to build security and resilience into ONS operations and enable better security assurance.

Core activities enable the identification of business disruption and security risk and also mitigations to meet ONS risk appetite. The division also provides oversight and quality assurance of physical security measures and business continuity planning to ensure efficacy and conformity to required standards.

Job Description

This role forms part of the Protective Security & Business Resilience Operations Team within the Security and Information Management Division. It reports the Business Continuity & Crisis management Lead who report to the Head of Protective Security & Business Resilience operations.

The primary focus of the role is providing advice, guidance and oversight Business continuity, with Secondary focus of Incident & Crisis Management within ONS. A key aspect is supporting the delivery of organisational goals for the Business Continuity Management System within the current strategy period through to 2026. Key outcomes from the role are advice and quality assurance and the effective delivery of the ONS Business Continuity integrated into ONS business operations, verifying the effectiveness of organisation wide security and business continuity measures and effective response to security incidents and business disruptions impacting the delivery of prioritised ONS outputs. The role will have Physical Security responsibilities at ONS Sites.

The role includes development opportunities and you will be supported to work towards a formal qualification with the Business Continuity Institute (BCI).

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Responsibilities

To be a system lead administrator for the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).
Provide initial advice to business areas on the development of Business Impact Analyses.
Provide initial advice to business areas on the development of Business Continuity Plans.
To assist in the delivery and facilitation of Business Continuity exercises for all areas of the ONS.
Identify and document business continuity risks and issues and escalate as required.
Contribute to an accurate and up-to-date organisational picture to include risk owners and lines of accountability.
Support incident response structures for strategic, tactical and operational disruptions.
Support development of the business continuity capability by establishing, maintaining and reviewing the organisation’s policy and programme activities for each stage of the business continuity life cycle.

This role forms part of the Protective Security & Business Resilience Operations Team within the Security and Information Management Division. It reports the Business Continuity & Crisis management Lead who report to the Head of Protective Security & Business Resilience operations.

The primary focus of the role is providing advice, guidance and oversight Business continuity, with Secondary focus of Incident & Crisis Management within ONS. A key aspect is supporting the delivery of organisational goals for the Business Continuity Management System within the current strategy period through to 2026. Key outcomes from the role are advice and quality assurance and the effective delivery of the ONS Business Continuity integrated into ONS business operations, verifying the effectiveness of organisation wide security and business continuity measures and effective response to security incidents and business disruptions impacting the delivery of prioritised ONS outputs. The role will have Physical Security responsibilities at ONS Sites.

The role includes development opportunities and you will be supported to work towards a formal qualification with the Business Continuity Institute (BCI).

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About the Company

We’re the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics. The statistics we gather make a real difference, helping people make important decisions for the nation and our communities on everything from health and education to the environment and the cost of living. We’re responsible for the census that happens every ten years and share information and analysis about some of the UK’s most topical issues. To find out more about how you can join us at the ONS, email talent.ac... Know more