Corporate Risk Manager

1 month ago

Warrington, Warrington, United Kingdom Disclosure & Barring Service Full time
Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of risk management capabilities within the Finance and Corporate Services Directorate at the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). We are currently analysing and developing risk maturity in the organisation, and are procuring a new risk management system, which will provide a variety of opportunities to be involved in project work, development and delivery of training projects and analysis of and involvement in drafting of risk management strategies to drive forward improvements to the DBS risk management process.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and maintain the risk management framework for DBS, covering strategic, corporate, operational and counter fraud risks, to support well-informed decision making in the business.
  • Maintain the strategic and corporate risk registers, drafting and presenting monthly update reports to various layers of Governance.
  • Embed and maintain the Risk Management framework and processes, covering both corporate and programme-related risks, by delivering Risk management training and guiding all areas of the organisation in undertaking risk identification and articulation.
  • Development and maintenance of Counter Fraud Risk Policy.
  • Managing and delivering the process for monitoring and reporting the overall compliance of the risk management framework and processes.
  • Work with line manager to embed risk management within the assurance processes of the organisation, and working with Strategy, Performance and Change Directorate colleagues, enabling the business to utilise risk management to develop, identify opportunities and improvements in services and inform Business Planning, including horizon scanning activities.
  • Supporting and developing activities to increase risk maturity at DBS, including conducting risk maturity assessments and bench marking.
  • Maintain strong relationships to enhance and support best practice with external partners, including the Home Office Central Risk Team and Sponsorship Unit and GIAA.
  • Provide support to the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Management Plan.
  • Management of staff as and when required.
  • Any other duties commensurate with the grade.
Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Ability

Ability to negotiate, influence and facilitate activities in order to deliver the risk management function.

Ability to operate within organisational objectives and policies, developing medium and long-term objectives for the function.

Ability to act as a critical friend to the organisation in respect of risks, ensuring they are articulated in a manner to reflect their current position at DBS.

Participation in the development and delivery of risk identification activities, including horizon scanning workshops.

Excellent, written and verbal communications skills.

Understanding of assurance and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

Experience

Experience of working with strategic and corporate risks in a large organisation.

Knowledge of risk management systems.

Knowledge of HMT guidance on risk management reporting.

Working with risk at executive/senior management level, including writing and presenting reports.

Experience and knowledge of risk management strategies to drive forward risk maturity.

Designing and delivering training packages/workshops to all staff, including senior management/board level.

Management of business relationships with external partners and internally with senior managers.

Technical

Possess a strong understanding of the risk management process. Be qualified to IRM or MOR Practitioner level or possess the aptitude and commitment to work towards a recognised Risk qualification at Level 5.

Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, in particular Excel, and ability to carry out tasks within Excel, such as conditional formatting.

Desirable Criteria

Experience

Designing and implementing corporate risk management arrangements into wider organisational frameworks.

Understanding and practical application of a diverse range of strategic and operational risk and business continuity areas relevant to DBS.

Integration of risk performance and budget frameworks and reporting.

Prince 2 Practitioner or Agile Project Management with performance management and financial awareness.

Participation in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategies within a large organisation.

Technical

Membership of the Institute of Risk Management.

Data visualisation and analysis skills.

Business Continuity training and/or qualification.

Assurance training and/or qualification.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Leadership
  • Delivering at Pace
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Changing and Improving
  • Seeing the Big Picture

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

  • Leadership
  • Delivering at Pace
  • Communicating and Influencing
Benefits

Alongside your salary of £38,700, Disclosure & Barring Service contributes £11,211 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

The DBS offers a number of excellent benefits for its employees, including:

  • Generous annual leave entitlement
  • Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption schemes (after a qualifying period)
  • Commitment to the health and wellbeing of our employees
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Flexible working opportunities
  • Eyecare voucher scheme
  • Occupational Health Service, including referrals for counselling and physiotherapy
  • 24/7 Counselling and Wellbeing Service

The DBS vision and purpose is to make people safer by being a visible, trusted and influential organisation, providing an outstanding quality of service to all our customers and partners, where our people understand the important safeguarding contributions they make and feel proud to work here. To do this, the DBS is committed to being an employer that is able to attract, develop, retain and engage diverse talent that is representative of the communities we serve, and to be an organisation providing outstanding service to all our existing and new customers, who are diverse and have a range of different needs. We want all our staff to be able to bring their 'whole self' to work.

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