JOB SUMMARY

Are you someone who is happy to communicate at all levels?
Do you have experience of working in a project or programme delivery or risk environment?
Are you a natural influencer who loves to have challenging conversations?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!
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The Portfolio Assurance & Risk Business Partner is part of a well-established team that provide assurance of the Projects & Programmes in the Portfolio and supports the Head of Risk Management & Business Resilience to embed risk management processes and a positive risk culture across the agency.

JOB DESCRIPTION

This is a varied and fast paced role, that will present the opportunity to work with a variety of senior key people, supporting a wide range of work across the agency. The successful post holder will engage confidently with senior leaders in DVSA, championing the assurance principles and values, encouraging an objective, positive, transparent assurance culture across the organisation. The role holder will identify trends and analyse data from across the Portfolio to provide insights to decisions makers leading the Agency.
The role holder will provide advice and support, and often challenge to risk champions and senior colleagues to highlight the importance of risk management and for making sound business decisions. Supporting the Head of Risk Management & Business Resilience to embed and improve the agency’s approach to risk management, to ensure there is robust risk control framework that takes account of best practice, including wider Departmental and Government policies and procedures.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Act as a key point of contact and provide for best practice advice for programmes, associated projects and related business areas.
• Advise Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), programme and project teams with quality assurance and quality control activities within project lifecycles using insight from governance risk, and controls.
• Provide support to the Head of Risk Management & Business Resilience to ensure an effective risk management framework is in place for the agency.
• Act as a risk advocate, tackling risk hotspots as directed by the Head of Risk Management & Business Resilience, for example providing high level guidance for significant key projects.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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)
• 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

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Act as a key point of contact and provide for best practice advice for programmes, associated projects and related business areas.
• Advise Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), programme and project teams with quality assurance and quality control activities within project lifecycles using insight from governance risk, and controls.
• Provide support to the Head of Risk Management & Business Resilience to ensure an effective risk management framework is in place for the agency.
• Act as a risk advocate, tackling risk hotspots as directed by the Head of Risk Management & Business Resilience, for example providing high level guidance for significant key projects

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Experience of giving sound advice and support to senior stakeholders
• Experience of working in a project and/ or programme delivery environment
• Proven track record of the implementation, management and assessment of processes and standards including templates.
• Understanding of risk management policies and processe