Risk and Compliance Officer

**About the Oversight Board**

The Oversight Board makes binding and independent decisions about the most challenging content issues on Facebook and Instagram. Members of the Board include Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former Prime Minister of Denmark, Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Michael McConnell, Director of Stanford’s Constitutional Law Center, and many other diverse leaders and thinkers from around the world. The Board issued its first decisions in January 2021.

The Oversight Board Administration is the team of full-time staff who support Board Members in carrying out their duties. The Administration has a presence in London, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., and operates with a global scope.

**The role**

Joining the Oversight Board Administration is a chance to be part of an organization which is leading on some of the most prominent and challenging issues facing the tech industry and society.

Reporting to the Chief Security Officer, the Risk and Compliance Officer will assume management responsibility for enterprise level risk & compliance which will include supporting the risk committee in identifying, prioritising, and actively managing enterprise risks. Further to this they will be a key business partner and support the implementation of initiatives to embed core risk management processes within the organisation.

Responsibilities will include:

- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to support risk identification, risk analysis and evaluation
- Lead & conduct risk assessments and collaborate with internal teams to identify potential threats
- Support the overall maturity of the risk management program working closely with the risk committee to define effective risk management processes & procedures
- Manage the Risk Register to ensure all relevant information is captured and core processes and information is maintained
- Collaborate with the _audit and _risk committee to support effective risk communication
- Identify and formulate risk response with risk owners, formulate mitigating controls and project manage the risk life cycle
- Advocate and sponsor risk control and prevention strategies that integrate risk management practices into everyday management
- Manage control analysis, control testing to evaluate control effectiveness
- Identify Key Risk and Key Control Indicators
- Produce comprehensive risk reports and support the _audit and_ risk committee in communicating the risks to senior leadership in addition to implementing any identified recommendations.
- Coordination of compliance and regulatory activities
- Senior stakeholder engagement, communication management and promoting the risk & compliance brand to the organisation.

This role may be based in the Administration’s location of London.

**Skills & Experience**
- Minimum of 2-5 years’ experience in a risk management position
- CRISC Qualification or equivalent preferred
- Strong understanding of compliance and risk management
- Working knowledge of risk management frameworks such as NIST & ISACA
- Strong communicator with the ability to work with various stakeholders across the organisation
- A hands-on, forward thinker, with a flexible mindset and ability to work in a fast-moving environment
- Experience in building sustainable and effective stakeholder relationships
- Ability to clearly communicate and present risk to senior management, peer group and staff
- Project management qualification desirable or equivalent experience
- Experience working in a compliance role

**What we can offer you**

As well as a competitive annual salary of circa £70,000, we also offer an excellent market leading benefits package, covering a variety of areas, both professional and personal. These benefits include:

- A generous 12% pension employer contribution with no requirement for you to contribute;
- Progressive family friendly benefits including a robust paid parental leave policy;
- A generous childcare subsidy to provide financial support for eligible childcare costs;
- A generous home working and commuting allowance to provide financial support for remote and/or office working;
- A training allowance to support both your continuous professional development and professional membership;
- An extensive health support package, including comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage for both you and your family members;
- Comprehensive life assurance, income protection and business travel insurance packages providing financial support in events of ill health, injury etc;
- 25 days of annual leave (in addition to bank holidays), with the opportunity to carry up to 5 unused days to the next year;
- 2 'recharge' paid vacation days per calendar year;
- A holistic wellbeing support plan encompassing a variety of offerings to assist you. We provide you with an allowance to fund activities to best support your wellbeing as well as workshops and training to provide tools and guidance. Additionally, there is a wide-ranging employee as