Risk Management Specialist

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 259357**Salary**:

- £53,550 - £57,500-
**Job grade**:

- Grade 7- HMT Band E**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HMT - Public Spending**Type of role**:

- Risk Management**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- The post can be based in London (1 Horse Guards Road) or Darlington (Feethams House).About the job

**Job summary**:
**About HM Treasury**

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives across the country, the Treasury is the department for you We sit at the centre of everything that the Government does and have provided advice on economic policy and decisions that affect the public finances throughout the country’s history. A Treasury career continues to offer an exciting opportunity to be part of the decision making that affects the whole of the UK.

Working at the heart of government, we collaborate with other departments to ensure public money is spent well and to drive strong and sustainable economic growth. Our work ranges from protecting customers through to the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, supporting people across the country through the COVID 19 furlough scheme and Plan for Jobs as well as helping first time buyers buy their first home.
- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

The Darlington Economic Campus is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring people together across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important issues of the day.

HM Treasury in Darlington will be joined by the Department for International Trade, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Office for National Statistics, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the Competition and Markets Authority, the Department for Education and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

**Job description**:
**About the Group**

**Public Spending Group**

The Public Spending Group has a high-profile role in Government, setting the Government’s overall spending plans and ensuring they deliver value for money for the taxpayer. We are responsible for reporting to Parliament and the public on how taxpayers’ money is spent. We drive forward improved outcomes and efficiency in public services and enhance the value for money of decision-making through better evaluation, data and analysis.

We advise on overall government policy on public sector pay and pensions, the biggest single driver of public spending. We collaborate with and directly support departments to deliver the Government Finance Function strategy, building finance capability across government and developing the management information, tools and frameworks to better understand and ensure value for money.

**About the Team**

Want to work on some of the biggest risk management challenges facing our country? Ready for a greater sense of purpose in your risk management career - changing risk management for good? Join us

We are expanding our Risk Profession, Centre of Excellence and are seeking risk management talent to join us in working across all of government to further develop risk management effectiveness as we pursue our collective Civil Service goals.

The Risk Profession, Centre of Excellence team consists of individuals who collectively work with hundreds of others (risk specialists and non-risk specialists) across government. The team is led by the Head of the Government Risk Profession.

**Key Accountabilities**

Risk management effectiveness is an important aspect of Civil Service success. Whatever the nature of our specific strategic goals, we are generally more likely to be successful in achieving them if we manage risk in an optimal way.

Risk management effectiveness in government is shaped by the individual and collective effectiveness of:

- our risk management framework/toolkit
- the people who use it
- the way in which those people adapt the framework and toolkit to suit the underlying activities of government Departments, Functions and Public Bodies

While responsibility for directly managing risk remains aligned to our management structures, risk management effectiveness is an important element of our team’s cross-government strategic priorities which include:

- Strengthening leadership and enhancing capability
- Collaborating across boundaries
- Enhancing capabilities and driving professionalism

To drive our progress in relation to risk management effectiveness, you will need to demonstrate a range of technical and behavioural skills. You will also show appetite for learning about government and be open-minded a