Summary: The Risk Manager role at Homes England involves providing high-level risk management support to Delivery Directorates and the Delivery Enabling Services function. The position requires collaboration with key stakeholders to enhance risk management activities and ensure alignment with strategic objectives. This is a hybrid role based in Newcastle, with a contract duration of three months and classified as inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide a high level of risk management support to Delivery Directorates and the DES function, enhancing and embedding directorate risk management activities across a range of business functions and activities.
• Undertake Control Insight deep dive activities to support SROs with the signing of annual Financial Data Assurance Statements (FDAS), making recommendations on control enhancements and improvements following Control Insight and monitoring completion of said enhancements through to completion.
• Update and maintain appropriate risk documentation/risk management systems for Delivery Directorates and DES including, but not limited to; Risk Registers, Risk Appetite Statements, Risk Management Information reports, Incident Management Information reports and supporting on any additional risk management collateral.
• Facilitate regular directorate risk forum activities by preparing documentation, engaging with key stakeholders, encouraging meaningful discussions, and capturing and actioning responses to Delivery Directorate risks.
• Liaise with business partner colleagues in the Corporate Risk Directorate and Audit to improve risk management processes, providing expert input in relation to proposed changes or new approaches.
• Hold regular conversations with key members of Delivery Directorates, at a senior level, to understand business area risks, controls and improvement actions; provide guidance and steer on existing and emerging risks, including; how to appropriately articulate, assess and score risks and, determine appetite and required treatment strategies.

Key Skills:

• Excellent understanding of enterprise risk management best practice, including; risk, control and assurance frameworks, both their understanding and application.
• Understanding of Delivery Directorates, transactional business activity and an ability to translate enterprise policies into operational practice.
• High levels of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills to drive contributions from others across the Directorate.
• High level of organisation skills, to operate in a fast changing and dynamic environment.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, structured thinking, and logical reasoning.
• Resilient, proactive and capable of creative problem solving under pressure.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other