Economic Resilience Consultant

PA Consulting

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 19 days ago
  • Apply easily
Company DescriptionWe believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.Job Description
  • Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.
  • Travel to client site will be necessary as and when the client requires
  • This role can be based from our
, or offices * Application deadline: ASAPAre you concerned that your career to date doesn’t equip you with the right skills to really accelerate how organisations deliver?Our Systems Insights & Solution resilience experts believe that resilience can only be sought through an end-to-end analysis of operations, and through the application of systems thinking; organisations need an approach that is broader than the previous traditional disciplines of business continuity management.As an Economic Resilience Consultant, you will work on projects that have a real impact on everyday life, delivering game changing solutions. This role will focus upon the application of whole system resilience assessment and capability building in the following key areas:Workforce resilienceSocietal resilienceInfrastructure resilienceDigital resilienceOrganisational resilienceSupply chain resilienceClimate resilienceEconomic resilience or securityWe excel in joining the dots across systems and supporting our clients with their situational awareness; risk management, resilient leadership & culture, whole system resilience assessment, measurement for investment decision making, and building resilience operating models.Past projects have included:
  • Supporting the MOD build a resilient supply chain and industrial base
  • Designing a full staff competency framework to professionalise resilience in the rail industry.
  • Delivering an innovative review of the risk to transport sector infrastructure from dam collapse.
  • Leading a future-facing review of the physical security strategy for a quasi-diplomatic international organisation.
  • Working with a European Central Bank to ensure resilience of their high value payment system
Qualifications
  • You will possess the ability to combine a proven multi-disciplinary outlook with a passion for designing resilient / sustainable systems.
  • Experience in engaging and presenting to clients, with strong verbal and written comms, able to highlight recommendations and insights
  • Experience of relevant international standards for resilience, risk management, information security, and / or service continuity
  • An understanding of developing business cases
  • Stakeholder management skills, capable of managing cross-business interactions
  • Systems Thinking, capable of undertaking strategic and detailed working
  • A background in economics or engineering
  • Ability to use excel to a high standard
  • Ability to create tools within power BI a plus
  • Ability to programme in python a plus
  • An interest in AI and how this can be harnessed for resilience
We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.Apply today by completing our online application#LI-KP1Additional InformationLife At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.Find out more about Life at PA .We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:
  • Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
  • 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
  • Generous company pension scheme
  • Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
  • Annual performance-based bonus
  • PA share ownership
  • Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on

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