We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Continuity & Resilience Specialist to join our IT Security and Governance team on a 12-month fixed-term contract to provide maternity cover.
This isn’t a traditional business continuity role. You’ll be joining a small, collaborative team helping to shape and strengthen organisational resilience across Railpen. You'll gain exposure to business continuity, operational resilience, supplier resilience, crisis preparedness, regulatory compliance and major change initiatives, working with stakeholders across the business to help ensure Railpen can anticipate, respond to and recover from disruption.
Who we areRailpen is responsible for the safekeeping and investment of around £36 billion in assets and the administration of several pension schemes, including the Railways Pension Scheme, one of the UK's largest and longest established pension funds.
Our heritage of looking after the pension needs of the rail industry and its employees gives us our name and our unique outlook on how we serve our members. Railpen takes a holistic view, focusing on how we serve members today and how we can positively impact the communities and the world they will retire into.
To learn more about Railpen including our values, culture and purpose, visit our LinkedIn Life page here.
The roleIn this role, you'll help Railpen strengthen organisational resilience across the business, ensuring we're prepared to anticipate, respond to and recover from disruption.
As part of our Business Continuity & Resilience team, you'll help develop and continually improve the capabilities that protect our members, colleagues, services and reputation.
You'll gain exposure to a broad range of resilience activities, from business continuity and operational resilience to crisis preparedness, supplier resilience and risk management.
Working closely with colleagues across the business, you'll provide practical guidance, constructive challenge and support to help strengthen resilience maturity and improve decision-making during periods of change and disruption.
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.
The personWe're looking for someone who enjoys solving complex problems and understands that resilience is about people, services and outcomes rather than simply creating plans. You'll be naturally curious, collaborative and analytical.
You'll be comfortable managing multiple priorities, engaging with stakeholders at all levels and helping the organisation better understand risk, dependencies and resilience.
You’ll bring experience in some or all of the following:
- Business Continuity (ISO 22301)
- Operational Resilience
- Risk Management
- Crisis Management / Incident Management
- Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Service Resilience
Most importantly, you'll bring a positive and pragmatic mindset, alongside a willingness to learn, develop and continually improve.
Our values of integrity, community and alignment are the guiding principles that influence our behaviour. They help us make decisions and shape our relationships with others. They’re what we stand for. You will actively demonstrate our values, helping to create a safe environment, to place the needs of the community above oneself and, through a culture of ‘fair challenge’, align to the best interests of our members.
What we can offer youRewarding you
- A competitive salary (depending on experience)
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Generous annual bonus plan
- We provide membership of the Railways Pension Scheme, a Defined Benefit arrangement under which you get a pension for life and a lump sum when you retire, based on your length of service and pay
- 4x Life Assurance cover
Health & Wellbeing
- Private Medical Insurance
- Employee assistance programme
- Health cash plan
- Eye care vouchers
- Flu vaccination
Lifestyle
- We support hybrid and flexible working along with very generous family leave including 12 months full pay maternity leave and 6 months full pay paternity leave
- Buy and sell holidays
- Give as you earn scheme
- Paid volunteering days
- Flexible half days leave
- Electric vehicle leasing
- Cycle to work scheme
Please apply via the apply button or visit Careers by 5pm on Friday 4th September 2026.
Railpen is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse environment, we value diversity and welcome people from all backgrounds and walks of life
Skills Required
- Experience with business continuity and ISO 22301
- Experience with operational resilience
- Experience with risk management
- Experience with crisis management or incident management
- Experience with governance, risk and compliance
- Experience with service resilience
- Legal right to work in the UK without visa sponsorship
What We Do
The Railways Pension Scheme is one of the UK’s largest and longest established pension funds. Railpen is responsible for the safekeeping and investment of around £34 billion on behalf of the scheme’s 350,000 members who are connected to the railway industry. Railpen's purpose is to secure our members' future. To achieve this we invest the scheme’s assets to generate strong returns over the long term. Our members and their employers trust us with this very significant responsibility. We are proud of this responsibility, take it very seriously, and are committed to, and passionate about, improving their future lives. Generating the required returns is challenging. To be successful we must constantly strive to be considered a world-class asset owner by our stakeholders, with a proven track record of adding value for our members. This means we have to have excellent people, doing exemplary work, in every part of our business. We use the size of our assets to invest wisely and influentially. Our convictions and a clear set of investment beliefs guide us through complex and changing markets. We’re not afraid to think innovatively or act boldly in the best interests of the members we are proud to serve
