Senior Risk Adviser - London, United Kingdom - Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

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2 weeks ago

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- £37,470 - £45,565

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National: £37,470 £41,925 London: £41,055 £45,565
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Senior Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
DSIT
Corporate Services
Finance Directorate
Type of role:
Project Delivery
Risk Management
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, ManchesterAbout the job

Job summary:

DSIT
The responsibilities for the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology for 2023 are as follows:

Positioning the UK at the forefront of global scientific and technological advancement
Driving innovations that change lives and sustain economic growth
Delivering talent programmes, physical and digital infrastructure and regulation to support our economy, security and public services
R&D funding

For 2023, our priorities are:

Optimise public R&D investment to support areas of relative UK strength and increase the level of private R&D to make our economy the most innovative in the world.
Promote a diverse research and innovation system that connects discovery to new companies, growth and jobs including by delivering worldclass physical and digital infrastructure (such as gigabit broadband), making the UK the best place to start and grow a technology business and developing and attracting top talent.
Put our public services including the NHS and schools at the forefront of innovation, championing new ways of working and the development of inhouse STEM capability to improve outcomes for people.
Strengthen international collaboration on science and technology in line with the Integrated Review, and ensure our researchers are able to continue to work with leading scientists in Europe and around the world.
Deliver key legislative and regulatory reforms to drive competition and promote innovation, including the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill and our proinnovation approach to regulating AI.
Pass the remaining stages of the reformed Online Safety Bill to keep British people, especially children, safe online.

Our Inclusive Environment

We are building an inclusive culture to make the Department a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves.

We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension.

We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer.

We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

Job description:

The role sits within the Reporting and Risk Team in the central Portfolio Office.

The wider team is being constructed so you will join at an exciting time when we are designing and building our function and offer to the department.

You will be responsible for ensuring that teams across
DSIT are providing accurate and timely information about the management of risks and mitigations.

This will be at project, programme, Directorate, Group and Departmental levels. It will involve reporting using the department's reporting tools and preparing reports to go to the Executive Committee. It will also require building strong networks with our Partner Organisations to understand their risks which may impact
DSIT.

As this is a new department you will have the ability to shape new processes as well as the ability to change and improve existing processes.

Role responsibilities:

Ensuring monthly risk reports comply with the
DSIT reporting and risk management frameworks.
Provide effective advice on risk and issue management to individual projects, directorates and partner organisations.
Maintain and build on the risk management policy to enable better and more complex analysis of risks across the department.
Analyse risk returns to identify trends and other relevant insight.
Undertake regular quantitative and qualitative risk analysis.
Ensure that risk reports are accurate and up to date.
Develop the Department's risk management capability through training and workshops.
Partner engagement building and maintaining relationships with risk leads across

Person specification:

Essential criteria

Experience in risk and issue management; the ability to systematically identify and supervise risks & issues, planning how to mitigate / respond and implementing the responses.
Partner engagement: the ability to construct positive partners