Consultant, Crisis and Continuity

JOB DESCRIPTION

Consultant, Crisis & Continuity Management

Division Consultancy

Line Manager: Principal Consultant

Based Full time in Aberdeen

Purpose of Role:

To work with a team of experienced individuals to provide a range of consultancy, training, exercises and response services to clients globally. As a consultant, you will manage work to be delivered to individual clients, in accordance with the agreed scope, on time, and within budget. By building strong relationship with clients and developing a network, you will expand opportunities with current clients, and develop business with new clients.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include:

Creating and following up on business opportunities with clients

Undertaking development work from Restrata ’s offices

Delivering work at clients’ offices or facilities

Developing and delivering training courses

Designing and delivering exercises

Reviewing existing client policy, procedures and plans

Producing Emergency Response Plans, Incident Management Plans, and Crisis Management Plans

Being part of the Restrata Incident Management Team on call rota.

Other examples of work include:

Writing and reviewing major accident hazard scenarios

Conducting training needs analysis

Producing and managing training programmes.

The Individual:

The individual will be expected to be technically competent and an effective Consultant, able to demonstrate knowledge of major accident hazards and specialist skills in major emergency management, emergency response, crisis management, media response and relative response.

To this end, the individual should have:

Essential experience:

Experience in designing and delivering Emergency, Incident and Crisis Management exercises

Experience in reviewing Emergency, Incident and Crisis Management plans

Exposure to Emergency, Incident or Crisis Response situations.

Desirable skills and experience:

5 – 10 years’ experience in the field

Preferred Higher Education level – HND / BSc

Previous Energy Sector experience or emergency services ( Environmental background a bonus)

Good initiative and ability to work independently or part of a team

Experience of working on International Projects.

Proven project management and report writing skills

Excellent communications skills and facilitation skills working at all levels.

In addition, the individual should be:

A team player, capable of forward planning or reacting to short timescales,

Excellent verbal / communication & influencing skills

Familiar with key developments in HSE regulations and ER good practice

An experienced and capable user of information technology and common operating environment applications

Progressive with the development of new or innovative methods of service line deliverables.