Summary

What you'll do

As the Director of Risk, Assurance and Heath & Safety, you will lead NHG's enterprise risk strategy, embedding improved risk and governance arrangements, ensuring robust governance, compliance, and resident safety. You will be responsible for NHG's corporate health and safety arrangements, driving a culture where risks are proactively identified, mitigated, and aligned with our 'Better Together' vision. Your leadership will safeguard NHG's operational integrity, compliance, and resident safety by driving and setting new behaviours across NHG.

How you'll do it

• Ensure NHG's Enterprise Risk Management & Assurance Frameworks is operating effectively, integrating health and safety compliance with broader risk strategies to meet Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) and other requisite regulatory or legislative standards.

• Act as NHG's key advisor on landlord health and safety matters, ensuring compliance with legislation (e.g., HSE guidelines) and fostering safe environments for residents and staff.

• Oversee the internal audit function, delivering actionable insights to the Audit & Risk Committee and driving improvements in control environments.

• Develop policies to address operational risks, including fire safety, contractor management, and third-party due diligence, ensuring alignment with NHG's risk appetite.

• Partner with the Executive Board, Senior Leadership Team and HR to embed health and safety, risk awareness, and competency frameworks across NHG.

• Implement systems to monitor and report on health and safety risks, ensuring transparency and swift resolution of issues impacting resident well-being.

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.

Essential:

• Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (CIA) qualification or equivalent

• NEBOSH/IOSH certification or equivalent, with proven success in managing health and safety compliance within regulated environments.

• Strong senior leadership experience in regulated environments, successfully working within multi-disciplinary teams and at all levels, including Executive and Senior Management, Heads of Service and external partners.

• Expertise in designing enterprise risk frameworks, including integration of health and safety protocols, fraud prevention, and third-party risk management.

• Track record of advising senior leadership on regulatory compliance (e.g., RSH, HSE) and driving cultural change toward risk accountability.

• Advanced stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence SLT, regulators, and cross-functional teams.

Desirable:

• Experience in social housing or public sector risk management, particularly in health and safety contexts.

What's in it for you?

Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential. Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

All about us

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.

For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.

To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/

Selection Process

Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 6 June 2025.  

Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to an interview with a presentation task and technical scenario assessment.

Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via .  

Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.

NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.