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AVP - Crisis Management (Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Crisis Simulation, Incident Management, Financial Market Infrastructure) A leading global financial market infrastructure organisation is seeking an Assistant Vice President - Crisis Management to join its Enterprise Resilience function in London. This is a key role supporting the development and delivery of the organisation's crisis management framework, ensuring the business can effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from major operational, technology, and market disruptions. You will work closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation, including executive leadership, while also engaging with external market participants and industry bodies. The position focuses on strengthening crisis preparedness through governance, scenario design, simulations, and resilience exercises within a highly regulated financial environment. Key Responsibilities Support the development and ongoing improvement of the Crisis Management framework , ensuring alignment with risk appetite and regulatory expectations. Coordinate crisis governance activities, including steering committees, reporting, and board-level materials. Design and deliver crisis simulations, war games, and tabletop exercises covering extreme but plausible disruption scenarios. Maintain crisis documentation including playbooks, manuals, procedures, and training schedules . Assist in the delivery of crisis management training across the organisation. Collaborate with resilience, security, operations, and technology teams on enterprise resilience and operational testing. Contribute to risk analysis and crisis readiness across projects, new services, and operational changes. Support crisis response activities during live events when required. Requirements 5+ years' experience in Crisis Management, Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, or Incident Management within a complex or regulated environment. Experience working within structured crisis response frameworks including preparedness, response coordination, and post-incident reviews. Strong experience designing or facilitating scenario-based simulations or resilience exercises . Ability to communicate complex issues clearly to senior leadership and key stakeholders . Proven ability to operate effectively under pressure and manage high-impact incidents. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess emerging threats and risks. Desirable Experience within financial services, payments, clearing, settlement, or financial market infrastructure environments . Knowledge of operational resilience regulations and industry standards (eg, PFMI). Certifications in Crisis Management, Business Continuity, Operational Resilience, or Risk Management . This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly critical organisation at the centre of global financial markets, contributing to the resilience of systems supporting significant international financial flows.

The Vacancy We're looking for an Executive Assistant to act as the first line professional point of contact for the President and Vice-President of the Methodist Church. This is an executive level support role for someone who is accustomed to working in a professional environment and who is willing to go the extra mile . This role is based at Methodist Church House, London, with the possibility of flexible working. About You To be successful in this role, in addition to excellent administrative skills it is essential that you have proven abilities of: working in a PA role in a complex organisation organising meetings and diaries and filtering and providing information. paying close attention to detail and working under pressure and to tight deadlines. managing and prioritising your own workload as well as working as part of a team. The Executive Assistant is required to be in sympathy with the ethos of the Methodist Church. Our Culture, Values and Benefits Thank you for considering joining our inclusive and welcoming team that strives for excellence and values employee wellbeing. We value and support all those who join our team through a positive work-life balance augmented by generous annual leave (plus an extra 3 days over Christmas/New Year), TOIL, flexi-leave and an on-site Well-being Adviser service. We offer a generous occupational pension scheme, where the Methodist Church will pay double the employee contribution up to a maximum of 16% employer contribution. The Methodist Church is an inclusive and supportive employer. We are actively committed to encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups. We also welcome applications from people living with disabilities. If you have questions about the vacancy or require reasonable adjustments to be made at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact HR Team. Closing date: 17 October 2025 Shortlisting date: 20 October 2025 Interview date (in person): 27 October 2025