Corporate Information
Corporate Structure
Corporate Structure
Roles and Responsibilities
Michael Charlton–Weedy
Chief Executive
Overall Purpose
To oversee the efficient management of the Emergency Planning College and ensure effective delivery of quality programmes.
Principal Accountabilities
- Strategic transformation of the Emergency Planning College
- Delivery of the doctrine and training components of national resilience.
- Annual throughput of 6,500 trainees on courses relating to emergency planning and management.
- Business with a turnover of £5M from a capital base of £10M within a cost–recovery regime.
- Staff comprising some 35 directly employed civil servants and approximately 50 contractor support personnel.
- Cabinet Office estate at Easingwold, comprising 260 acres of land and 21 buildings.
- Commercial exploitation of available capacity and facilities.
- Relationships with diverse national and local stakeholder groups.
- Membership of the CCS Management Board.
- Representing CO and CCS at local, national and international events.
- Assisting in the development and delivery of national resilience policy.
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Ken Lawson
Director Training and Doctrine
Principal Accountabilities
- Plan, develop and deliver a flexible needs oriented programme of learning and awareness raising which sustains resilience and public safety.
- Membership of the Emergency Planning College Senior Management Team.
- Develop and manage relationships between professional bodies, academia, interest groups and those with a stake in the Government's risk and resilience agenda.
- Evaluate and monitor programme performance and that of the Course Directors and around 500 visiting speakers.
- Maintain links with appropriate international organisations.
- Manage and monitor standards, customer service and budgets
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Sue Hart
Director Business Services
Principal Accountabilities
- Co–ordinate College business activity, including driving business integration through information management across all functional areas.
- Within the overall EPC transformation programme, define, design, document and implement key business processes within and between business functions.
- Plan, prepare and implement the College's sales and marketing plans, including budget projections, income generation targets and performance indicators.
- Provide a systematic, integrated, all–media approach to the acquisition, processing, distribution and storage of information in support of training, sales and marketing, doctrine development and research, customer liaison and administration.
- Manage the delivery of the associated software projects from initial business case to commissioning.
- Membership of the EPC Management Board.
- Monitor staff performance and development.
- Monitor progress against targets relating to delegate throughput and income generation across all business activities.
- Manage and monitor Business Services budget.
- Deliver secretariat support to the College Customer Board
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