Corporate Risk Manager

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About the role

Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Internal Audit & Risk management team as a Corporate Risk Manager. This is advertised as a part-time role with an expected 30 hours per week, however, some flexibility on the exact weekly hours is available for the right candidate. The role offers a flexible work arrangement, including the opportunity for remote working as well as the ability to work from our central base at New Shire Hall in Alconbury Weald, Huntington approximately 1 day per week.

This is an excellent opportunity to further your career in risk management within the dynamic environment of local government, working as part of a forward- thinking and inventive Internal Audit & Risk Management team at an innovative and supportive County Council. In this pivotal role, you will play a crucial part in cultivating a robust risk management culture, driving positive organisational change, and ensuring risk mitigation strategies are embedded across the Council.

For enquiries about this post, please contact Mairead Claydon, Head of Internal Audit & Risk Management, at: mairead.claydon@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

What will you be doing?

As a Corporate Risk Manager, you will take responsibility for promoting a positive risk management culture, facilitating the effective implementation of the Council's risk management framework, and ensuring risk management is integrated into strategic decision-making processes.

Your key responsibilities will include maintaining the Corporate Risk Register, facilitating the Council's Corporate Risk Group, developing and delivering risk management training, and providing advice and support to officers. This will include acting as a key advisor to senior managers and stakeholders across the organisation on all elements of the risk management process and framework, providing both support and challenge.

The Corporate Risk Manager will take a lead on developing and improving all aspects of the Council's risk management policy, strategy, standards, delivery assurance and reporting mechanisms. Additionally, you will lead a programme of risk assurance work, reviewing and challenging individual risks, providing independent assurance over risk control, and supporting the development of action plans to strengthen risk management.

As part of the Internal Audit & Risk Management team, you will also supervise and support junior team members take an active role in team development and contribute to other work to support team outcomes. This is a pivotal role in helping the organisation effectively manage risks and drive positive change.

About you

Successful applicants will be team players and great communicators, with the desire to think innovatively and strategically about how to improve the way systems and services work, challenge current processes, and work closely with senior management and key stakeholders across the organisation. Crucial to this role is the ability to exercise sound judgement and make well -informed decision, demonstrating decision making capabilities. Relevant risk management qualifications, such as a Certificate Member or Certified Member of the Institute of Risk Management are desirable for this role.

Please note: Applicants are requested to submit a C.V. and a supporting statement. When writing the personal statement, you should refer to the Person Specification and give specific examples to demonstrate how you meet the criteria.

Please note: Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor candidates who do not have the right to work in the UK for this role, so please ensure you have the right to work before applying.

Our benefits

This is advertised as a part-time role with an expected 30 hours per week, however, some flexibility on the exact weekly hours is available for the right candidate. The role offers a flexible work arrangement, including the opportunity for remote working.

This role includes paid annual leave on a pro-rata basis ( based on the 28 days full time entitlement), plus bank holidays pro- rated, with additional leave increments for continuous service and the option to purchase additional leave.

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

• Flexible working
• Flexible Bank Holidays
• A comprehensive wellbeing package
• Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
• A comprehensive pension scheme.
• IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
• Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
• An employee recognition scheme

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Attached documents

• Corporate Risk Manager - Job Description - May 24.pdf
• Corporate Risk Manager - Person Specification - May 24.pdf