Business Continuity Officer, Darlington

About the job

Job summary

If you're interested in making a difference to people's lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.

Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.

We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a cross-government hub bringing people together to tackle key national issues while working closer to the communities we serve.

Job description

Business Continuity (BC) ensures the organisation maintains essential services during disruption or incidents. As an HEO Business Continuity (BC) Officer, you will support effective coordination, maintenance and continuous improvement of business continuity arrangements across the organisation, helping ensure essential services are maintained during disruption.

You will support, maintain and assure BC plans, business impact analyses (BIAs) and contingency arrangements aligned with departmental standards. You will work closely with colleagues across operational, digital and security teams to embed a strong resilience culture.

You will provide support during incident response, gathering information, preparing briefings and ensuring key actions are tracked and completed. You will also contribute to exercises, lesson-learnt processes and wider resilience activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the maintenance and lifecycle of Business Continuity planning, ensuring alignment with relevant standards and guidance.
• Assist teams in completing and updating BIAs and BC plans, ensuring information is accurate, risk‑based and reviewed regularly.
• Monitor disruptions and support the preparation of reports and briefings for senior leaders.
• Maintain accurate records of BC activities, tests, exercises and disruptions.
• Work with digital, security and operational colleagues to ensure BC and contingency arrangements are joined‑up and effective.
• Support the delivery of BC exercises, ensuring outcomes, lessons and recommendations are captured and followed up.
• Promote awareness of BC responsibilities across the organisation.
• Act as a point of contact for day‑to‑day BC queries, escalating issues appropriately.
• Contribute to BC risk updates and support corporate reporting requirements.
• Track and support incident management processes, including improvement actions, escalating risks or delays as appropriate.

Essential Experience and Skills

• Experience working in a business continuity, resilience, risk or operational support role. or providing structured support to time‑critical or risk‑based activity.
• Demonstrates sound problem‑solving abilities and an aptitude for identifying workable solutions.
• Strong communication skills, with confidence to work with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to prepare clear, concise reports and summaries.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.

Desirable Qualifications

• Working toward or holding CBCI/MBCI or equivalent.

Desirable Knowledge and Skills

• Understanding of resilience planning and the BC lifecycle.
• Awareness of organisational operations, digital systems or service delivery processes.
• Experience supporting incident management or exercising activities.

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date, please contact .

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Person specification

Application Stage

Application Form

Applications should consist of a CV including your employment history, and a 1000 word setting out how you meet the shortlisting criteria below. Your CV and employment history won't be scored. It's used to give context to your application and support discussions at interview.

The panel will review applications and invite those that best demonstrate evidence of the shortlisting criteria for interview. Please keep this in mind when writing your application.

Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.

Experience working in a business continuity, resilience, risk or operational support role. or providing structured support to time critical or risk based activity.

• Demonstrates sound problem‑solving abilities and an aptitude for identifying workable solutions.
• Strong communication skills, with confidence to work with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to prepare clear, concise reports and summaries.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.

Interview Stage

If you are successful at the application stage, you will be invited to interview where you will be assessed against the following criteria:

• Experience
• Behaviours:
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

Benefits

Alongside your salary of£34,820, HM Treasury contributes£10,087 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Generous Annual Leave - 25 days (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus public holidays and the King's birthday.
• Outstanding Pension Scheme - Defined Benefit pension with employer contributions of 28.97%
• Parental Leave Packages - Including 6 months'occupational pay for maternity/adoption, shared parental leave options.
• Flexible&Hybrid Working - Options include part-time, job-share, compressed hours, flexitime, and hybrid working (where business needs allow).
• Advance Schemes&Discounts - Rental deposit, cycle-to-work, SmartTech, season ticket loans, and access to HM Treasury's benefits portal for a wide range of discount codes.

You can review HM Treasury's full offer here.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements 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, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Candidate GuidancePlease review the candidate guidance for an overview of the Success Profiles and STAR approach, along with top tips for applications and interviews.

Recruitment Timeline

• Closing date: Sunday 7th June 2026
• Shortlisting: w/c 8th June 2026
• Interviews: w/c 22nd June 2026

This timeline is indicative and may be subject to change. We will inform you if there is a substantial change to the recruitment timeline.

If your contact details change at any time during the selection process, please ensure you update your Civil Service Jobs Profile.

Reserve Lists

You will be placed on a reserve list if your application is successful, but we cannot offer you a role immediately. Where more than one location has been advertised, candidates will be posted in merit order by location. You will be asked to provide your location preference on your application form. Please note that a place on the reserve list does not guarantee an offer.

If you are offered a role in your first preferred location and you decline the offer or are unable to take up the post within a reasonable timeframe, you will be removed from the reserve list, other than in exceptional circumstances.

Those on the reserve list may also be approached for similar roles at a lower grade. If you are offered a role at a lower grade and choose to decline, you can remain on the reserve list.

Internal Fraud Database Check

Candidates cannot apply to roles in the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Successful candidates will be subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database. This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This also applies to those who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences had their employment continued. Any …