Job Title:	Risk Administrator x 2 - Leeds
Reference:	460
Salary:	£30,000 - £35,000
Location(s):	Leeds
Industry(s):	Blue Chip
Advertiser:	Hays - Accountancy & Finance
Employment Type:	Contract / Permenent
Posted:	02-07-2009

Description:

New organisation. Unique issues. An opportunity to create a better future for children. The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (the Commission) is responsible for all aspects of child maintenance in Great Britain. Its role is to promote financial responsibility, encourage and support private maintenance arrangements as well as provide a statutory maintenance service. It will be innovative in its approach, harnessing the expertise of the public, private and third sectors. For you, it's an exciting opportunity to develop your career as part of a team that will build the new scheme of child maintenance for children who live apart from one or both of their parents.

The Risk Support will report to the Risk, Security and Business Continuity Manager, in the Commission Executive's Finance and Assurance Directorate.

This is a great chance to work as a part of a small high-performing team where you will deliver risk support to the Commission's Executive Team and throughout the Commission as appropriate.

Purpose:

The Risk Administrator will:

• Assist with the provision of a risk support service to facilitate the operation of the Commission's senior Executive Team, and other teams and key decision-making bodies as appropriate;
• Ensure that effective risk support is provided to the Risk, Security and Business Continuity Manager in their duties; and
• Assist with ensuring that the risk methodology adopted across the Commission is the most efficient and effective process adopted for understanding and recording risks, and raise client service improvements where appropriate.

Key Responsibilities:

Your main responsibilities are as follows:

To be part of a high performing team contributing to the achievement of Commission objectives, and to provide clear support in the development and delivery of its products. This will involve:

• Working with the Commission Executive Team, Directors and other key personnel to help identify, assess, manage, review, monitor, report and communicate key risks to achieve business aims, objectives or targets;
• Ensuring that strategic risks are escalated to the Executive Team or other appropriate Committees for consideration and / or action;
• Analysing risks and risk data to produce reports and briefings for the Board, Executive Team and other senior teams to inform and generate discussion and decision making;
• Working with risk practitioners across the Commission to drive forward risk management within the organisation, share good practice and make recommendations for improvements;
• Maintaining Commission risk registers, ensuring that Exective Team and other risk submissions and outcomes of risk workshops are appropriately reflected;
• Maintaining the central electronic repository of risks and standard templates; and
• Facilitating risk workshops with senior teams.

You will create and maintain effective links with colleagues both in the Commission
Executive and across the Commission.

Person Requirements:

You will need to be able to demonstrate appropriate experience in each of the following:

Knowledge and Experience

• Working in a high-profile service organisation of comparable size and complexity;
• Understanding of risk management practices and methodologies.
• Operating within a team environment; and
• Successful liaison with stakeholders, and working effectively across different business areas.

Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities

• Must be able to effectively interview and liaise with senior managers, and undertake presentations;
• Must be comfortable with running and facilitating workshops and meetings;
• Interpretation of risk information and data to produce reports and briefing is desirable;
• Planning and organisational ability;
• Highly-developed drafting proficiency, and familiarity with Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint;
• A flexible outlook and approach;
• Innovation, drive and creative thinking;
• Empathy and understanding of the key issues impacting the Commission;
• An understanding of, and sensitivity to, the political context within which the Commission operates;
• Intellectual robustness and the ability to make sound judgements;
• The ability to think on one's feet and work at pace, reacting to and resolving issues as they arise;
• Honesty, integrity and probity;
• A personal demeanour that inspires confidence and loyalty; and
• An understanding of equality and diversity, and how it impacts on service delivery.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday
• Excellent pension

Recruits to the Commission need to demonstrate their capabilities to a measurable standard against the following Commission Executive competencies:

• Customer focus and relationships
• Collaborate, support, team work
• Focus on outcome and innovation
• Engage, influence and persuade

Interview Dates:

First Interviews - between the 27th July and 3rd August
Final Interviews - 1st September 2009