Corporate Assurance and Risk Manager

Job summary

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is driven by its unparalleled access across government to build ‘better insights, better outcomes’ for our clients.

This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government.

The Agency’s unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully, and continue developing professionally.

The role of Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager is part of the Governance team, which sits within the Corporate Services division. This small but dynamic team provides a wide array of corporate governance services, including managing governance frameworks, risk management processes, and internal controls within the GIAA.

The Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager holds a pivotal position within the Governance team and across the Agency. Working closely with senior colleagues, you will ensure the seamless delivery of a high-quality internal governance function. You will serve as the Agency’s lead on propriety, ethics, correspondence handling, and transparency reporting.

Job description

• Develop and oversee the Agency’s assurance environment and control framework, including maintaining the map of assurance and delivering assurance exercises to support the Accounting Officer’s assessment of the effectiveness of the internal control environment.
• Lead the management and continuous development of the Agency’s approach to risk management, ensuring effective design and implementation of policies, procedures, and practices for risk identification, assessment, treatment, monitoring, and reporting.
• Deliver high-quality risk and assurance practices across the organisation, and reports to governance bodies and other key stakeholders, including reporting on risk exposures, trends, and mitigation progress.
• Promote Agency-wide compliance with the Counter Fraud Functional Standards by supporting the identification of areas for improvement, advising on necessary actions, and fostering robust processes to meet the required benchmarks.
• Lead the Agency’s internal counter-fraud arrangements by identifying, assessing, and monitoring fraud risks, as well as reviewing the effectiveness of associated controls.
• Prepare, deliver, and report on the annual action plan, which sets out targeted measures and initiatives to mitigate the risks of fraud, bribery, and corruption.
• Conduct second-line assurance checks and produce reports for Executive and Board committees.
• Act as secretary to committees of the Agency Board and Executive, including the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee.
• Contribute to and/or manage complex work programmes and governance projects, with a focus on ensuring timely delivery, alignment with organisational priorities, providing administrative support as required.

Person specification

1. Previous experience of developing and overseeing risk and assurance processes, with a solid understanding of the principles and concepts of risk management.
2. Knowledge of the three lines model for assurance and experience of how this operates at a corporate level within an organisation.
3. Experience of producing reports and information returns for governance bodies and presenting complex information in a clear and succinct manner, using judgement to make assessments and recommendations.
4. Excellent planning and organisational skills with prior experience managing reactive and proactive workloads and delivering complex work programmes to deadline.
5. Adept at prioritising, adapting to change, and staying resilient. Collaborative, with a proven ability to work with stakeholders and teams to achieve shared goals.
6. Taking the initiative to lead on areas of responsibility with a positive approach to solving problems, with a strong track record of delivering good administrative processes and/or reviewing processes to deliver improvements or efficiencies.
7. Excellent communication skills and an ability to clearly articulate complex information, both verbally and in writing, to a variety of audiences.
8. A strong team player, with a proven ability to successfully work with others to deliver key cross-organisational projects

To apply for this role, you will need to submit your employment history, personal details and provide a statement of suitability of no more than 1,000 words, referring to the person specification.

Please note only your statement of suitability will be assessed at the sift stage.

Candidates invited to interview will be required to complete a written exercise to test their technical skills in advance of the interviews.

Candidates will be asked to present the output to the interview panel, and this will be followed by questions. One score will be given for the presentation and another for the follow-up questions.

Candidates invited to interview will be assessed on experience and strengths, with technical skills being assessed through the written exercise.

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Analytical skills, risk management expertise, stakeholder engagement, communication skills, decision-making and professional judgement, prioritisation and time management

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £48,889, Government Internal Audit Agency contributes £14,163 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Competitive salaries and in-year rewards
• Flexible working
• A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Discount on big brands
• Volunteering days
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free eyesight tests
• Family-friendly HR policies
• 25 days’ annual leave increasing by one day per year of service to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• Geographically based Agency

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

Recruitment Timeline

• Closing date: 27 September 2026
• Shortlisting: 30 October 2026
• Interviews: 12 October 2026

This timeline is indicative and may be subject to change. We will inform you if there is a substantial change to the recruitment timeline.

If your contact details change at any time during the selection process, please ensure you update your Civil Service Jobs profile.

Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.

Eligibility Statement

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role in the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. Checks will be performed as part of pre-employment checks in line with this. Please refer to the Candidate FAQ document attached to the advert for more information.

Everyone working with government assets must complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks. Additionally, individuals appointed to the Treasury group will be subject to National Security Vetting. The level of security vetting required for this role is Security Check (SC)

To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out, applicants will need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. In exceptional circumstances, for example if you have been working abroad on a government posting, a lack of residency would not be a bar to security clearance however the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case-by-case basis once the advert closing date has passed.

Please read the Vetting Charter for information on what to expect during the vetting process and what will be expected from you. Many areas of your life may be explored during your vetting journey, and it is important that every individual, regardless of their background and experiences, should feel comfortable going through this personal process, whilst having confidence that it is fair, proportionate, and inclusive.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Katie Woodhouse
• Email : giaarecruitment@giaa.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : giaarecruitment@giaa.gov.uk

Further information

Complaints Procedure: The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact: GIAARecruitment@giaa.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission.

Attachments

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