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Risk and Governance Manager
£50,000 - £55,000 + benefits
Permanent
Full time (35 hours per week)
Wimbledon (hybrid and flexible working)
The role
As a Risk and Governance Manager, you will be part of our Legal & Governance team, and you will apply robust governance processes to support growth and development in delivery of our purpose and strategy. You will evaluate and continually improve the application of risk management, control and governance procedures that enable accomplishment of organisational objectives.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll have full responsibility for the Governance activities such as:
1. Researching, advising and implementing systems and solutions to enhance the support that Secretariat provides to CIPD’s governing entities.
2. Assisting the Director of Legal & Governance with developing Board effectiveness and awareness of Trustee responsibilities including the assistance with appointments, provision of induction, support, advice and evaluation to discharge their duties.
3. Contributing to the governance aspects of the AGM, Council, Board and subcommittees, including planning, producing papers and minutes.
4. Supporting governance elements of year end compliance and ensuring all governance information on our website, with Companies House and the various charity regulators is accurate.
5. Providing day-to-day support to CIPD’s outsourced internal audit service, and contributing to report on agreed recommended actions required by relevant Internal Audit reports.
6. Advising staff on the implications and consequences of proposed actions from a compliance perspective and coordinating consistent communication and regular review of a comprehensive suite of internal policies, with associated training as required.
You’ll also be responsible for Risk Management:
1. Promoting the Institute’s risk management policy, process, tools and techniques, building a risk aware culture that drives organisational performance, including appropriate training and acting as an adviser in relation to business risks.
2. Collaborating with the Senior Leadership Team and Department heads to ensure risks are captured and working subsequently with the risk owners and coordinators to monitor the effectiveness of risk mitigations.
3. Co-ordinating the regular review, assessment and reporting of corporate risk to the Audit Committee and Board.
4. Facilitating risk discussions across the businesses department and project streams.
Lastly, you’ll be responsible for Business Continuity:
1. Ensuring business continuity arrangements are fit for purpose.
2. Reviewing and updating the business impact analysis and crisis management response as required in collaboration with other relevant parts of the business.
What you’ll need to be successful
1. Significant governance experience gained working in a sector which includes both commercial and “not for profit” with a proven track record of converting theory to practice.
2. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
3. Experience producing a high-level research combined with analytical skills and hands on experience of risk management techniques and tools.
4. Using knowledge of different business environments and maximising effective governance.
5. Great stakeholder management and relationship building skills. You will need to develop an understanding of the organisation and its various stakeholders, as well as an awareness of its strategic aims in order to provide support to the Director of Legal & Governance in their role as a member of the Senior Leadership Team.
About us
We’ve been championing better work and working lives for over 100 years. We help organisations thrive by focusing on their people, supporting our economies and societies. We’re the professional body for HR, L&D, OD and all people professionals – experts in people, work and change. With over 160,000 members globally – and a growing community using our research, insights and learning – we give trusted advice and offer independent thought leadership. And we are a leading voice in the call for good work that creates value for everyone.
We offer an inclusive and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities, as well as excellent benefits such as 28 days’ holiday with an option to buy and sell days, personal development allowance, access to an award winning pension scheme and a commitment to wellbeing including a cashback health scheme.
If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click APPLY.
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We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion and equality of outcomes in employment through recognising of how differences of age, disability, gender, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, ethnicity, colour, religion, or belief and other protected (by equalities law) and personal characteristics can advantage or disadvantage a person.
Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to submit an application as soon as possible.
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