Corporate Risk Manager

About the Organisation:

At English Heritage, we are passionate about ensuring we are an organisation where everyone is valued, respected and supported for their unique contributions, this is why we put Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the heart of how we innovate, inspire and involve the diverse communities we serve. With your help, we can share England's historic sites, objects and stories with millions more people for generations to come. No matter what you do or where you do it, by joining us you'll be playing a vital role in looking after some of the greatest places in England so that they can be enjoyed today and for generations to come.

About the Opportunity:

The Corporate Risk Manager will be responsible for owning, developing and continuously improving English Heritage's Risk Management Framework, ensuring it remains effective, proportionate and embedded across the organisation.

You will ensure robust risk governance arrangements are in place, including the development of risk appetite, oversight of corporate and directorate risk registers, and high-quality reporting to the Executive Team, Audit and Risk Committee, Board and other governance forums.

The role will also provide oversight of the organisation's business continuity arrangements to ensure alignment with key organisational risks.

You will facilitate and drive management discussions, decisions and strategies on risk at management and leadership meetings. Collaborating with risk champions from Directorates, Projects and Programmes and sharing good practice.

This role can be based anywhere across England and you will get the opportunity to work at some of the most significant sites England has to offer. Some travel to the London and Swindon offices will be required.

A bit about yourself:

Proven risk management experience in a large organisation or consultancy including:

• Developing and supporting organisational risk registers to ensure clarity at a corporate level.
• Demonstrable experience of business continuity planning and the use of business continuity measures as risk mitigation.
• Setting risk appetite.
• Proposing and challenging risk mitigations and monitoring their effective implementation.
• Attending and presenting at governance boards.
• Developing and implementing risk management frameworks across a complex organisation.
• Developing and supporting key risk indicators to ensure the organisation are actively monitoring risk.

You will ideally have experience building a risk function from the ground up and be comfortable influencing senior stakeholders across the organisation.