Head of Governance, Risk

3 weeks ago

Blackfriars Station, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Head of Governance, Risk & Assurance

**Location**:
Blackfriars, GB

**Department Name**:
Southern Region

**About Network Rail**:
Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter. **Watch our video to find out more**

We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.

**Brief Description**:
To develop and deliver the strategic vision and direction for governance, risk, assurance for the region in order that it can deliver on its commitments both internally and for external stakeholders through the determination process for each Control Period (CP).

**About the role (External)**:
***Key Accountabilities**

1. Lead the delivery of the Network Rail strategic vision and direction for governance, risk, assurance to enable to the Region to deliver on its commitments both internally and for external stakeholders through the determination process for each Control Period (CP)

2. Lead the development and implementation of the Regional governance framework and management system guaranteeing internal Network Rail policy and external regulatory requirements are adhered to maintaining risk to acceptable levels and delivering on commitments to all key internal and external stakeholders.

3. Lead the region enterprise risk portfolio focussed on the key threats and opportunities to the achievement of the regions strategic plan. Direct the reduction in Region exposure with robust plans to keep threats within appetite thresholds and maximise the benefits of opportunities.

4. Lead and manage the effective implementation and delivery of the region assurance framework to maintain the three lines of defence and to provide customer confidence and protect business reputation.

5. Direct and lead the corporate governance, assurance and improvement forums leading strategy and influencing decision making across the Region to guarantee the strategic objectives of the business are met.

6. Manage the development and delivery of the Region audit plan, including integration and support of the Network Rail business audit interventions, corporate Safety Functional Audit and corporate Internal Audit activity to maintain the three lines of defence required to protect business reputation and customer confidence.

7. Direct and maintain the development of the desired quality culture throughout the Region to maintain legal compliance and the adoption of best practise through good governance, stakeholder confidence through effective assurance and structured improvement to achieve efficiencies internally and through the supply chain. Direct the development and manage the deployment of relevant quality measures and controls to monitor quality across the Region.

8. Lead relationships with the group governance, risk and assurance forums influencing decision making across Network Rail to meet the strategic objectives of the Region.

9. Drive organisation learning through the provision of governance, risk and assurance knowledge management and supporting lessons learnt systems/process.

10. Provide expert support and guidance to the Region on issues regarding governance, risk and assurance to achieve the desired levels of performance.

**Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications**

Essential
- Chartered Quality Professional or an equivalent in the fields of governance, risk and assurance
- Able to demonstrate significant governance, risk and assurance experience in a large and complex multidisciplinary organisation
- Recognised leadership capability, with the vision and ability to establish cross-functional relationships and drive cultural/organisational change
- Demonstrable excellent communication and presentation skills, numerate, analytical and articulate and ability to develop business-wide solutions
- Able to demonstrate expert knowledge and experience at a senior level in the successful delivery of governance, assurance and improvement in a large and complex multidisciplinary organisation
- Proven exceptional interpersonal skills, possessing the ability to maintain credibility and influence people at all levels within a large complex organisation, up to and including executive level as well as diverse senior stakeholders
- Proven ability to motivate and engage virtual teams
- Successful substantial experience in senior management roles in a complex organisation
- Proven strong commercial awareness and financially astute
- Demonstrable good knowledge and experience of managing appropriate system certifications in a complex business (e.g. ISO 9001, 14001, OHSAS 18001, BS 11000)

Desirable
- Demonstrable good knowledge of railway operational and contr

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