Manager - Development & Infrastructure Risk

Job summary

You will join a specialist risk team which provides governance, risk and assurance advice and support to the first line teams responsible for managing our Development, Market Partners and Places, Affordable Housing and Infrastructure Grants and Building Safety programmes and activities.

You will help to introduce and embed best practice risk disciplines and processes across the Agency and Government, and will play an important role in building knowledge, skills, capacity, and a risk culture.

Working as part of an experienced and supportive team, you will help to provide an agile and collaborative risk service to the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Directors and Senior Responsible Owners across several directorates to support the delivery of a range of complex interventions within the Agency’s risk appetite. The Development & Infrastructure Risk team acts as the second line risk function, providing specialist risk expertise to directorates that are collectively responsible for delivery of a range of interventions currently utilising over £12bn of recoverable and non-recoverable funding.

Job description

You will be educated to degree level or have broad ranging equivalent experience. You may also hold a relevant post-graduate or professional qualification.

You have experience of promoting sound and commercially focused risk management principles and practices within a public and/or private sector environment. You have strong written and verbal communications skills and are comfortable presenting to individuals and teams. You can demonstrate a track record of negotiating with a wide range of people, who may have conflicting agendas and priorities.

You approach work with a positive mindset and have a commitment to work collaboratively and as part of a team. You enjoy solving problems and providing practical solutions and approaches to complex issues. You have a flexible approach to work and can operate effectively across multiple programmes and in a range of scenarios. You can make strong and robust decisions and are committed to always delivering a high-quality output and to meet tight deadlines when required.

Person specification

• Provide sound and timely input to the governance arrangements of projects managed by the 1st line teams that we support as a Risk Business Partner. This includes ensuring a robust peer review process and actively influencing discussions and decisions at governance forums.
• Actively contribute to the team’s risk business partnering role with the 1st line teams that we support.
• Provide specialist risk-focused advice, support and training to the 1st line teams that we support as a Risk Business Partner.
• Support the senior team members in providing appropriate assurance opinion to the CEO, Homes England Board and MHCLG around the activities, controls, and processes involved in delivering the Agency’s Development, Infrastructure Grants, Affordable Housing Grants and Building Safety programmes.
• Analyse market and partner intelligence to inform intervention approach and risk decision making.
• Assist in designing and producing risk Management Information (MI) including the development of new MI and related performance analysis and reporting. This incorporates identifying management actions, recommendations and resolutions linked to assurance activity.
• Contribute to and participate in continuous improvement initiatives within decision making governance structures, within the overall work of the Risk directorate and within our day to day activities.
• Deputise for other team members in internal meetings, forums and activities as required.
• Support other areas of the Risk directorate as required.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

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

Name: Recruitment Team

Email: recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.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

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.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.

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).

Apply and further information

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 : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk