COMMUNICATION AND REPORTING SKILLS

• Strong communication and relationship skills to maintain effective relationships with external and internal stakeholders, ensuring that the MPS approach to risk and assurance is well understood
• An ability to work across traditional boundaries
• Utilise excellent written and verbal communication skills to input to strategic reports on key risk and assurance issues and assist in the development of written guidance for colleagues.
• An ability to utilise available technology to create effective reports.

PLANNING AND ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS

• Collate diverse sets of information both operational and non-operational and present in a way that enables risk and opportunities to be identified
• Good time management and organisational skills with the ability to meet demanding deadlines in a pressurised environment.
• The ability to manage a diverse workload.
• Strong team player but the ability to work unsupervised as part of that team.

Other skills

• An understanding of the principles of risk management and assurance including audit and the benefits of organisational learning
• Good IT skills and attention to detail to enable maintenance of databases of information and intranet/SharePoint pages
• The ability to be flexible and support a multi-disciplinary team.
• Energetic and resilient in the face of competing demands, with the ability to prioritise
• Ability to build strong, long-term relationships across organisational boundaries.

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

• Desirable but not essential is an ability to demonstrate expertise, skills and competencies in risk management, organisational learning or assurance gained through experience of working within business or project risk management, assurance or organisational learning environments
  Required Languages
  English
  Reports To
  Risk and Governance Manager
  Additional Information
  CVF Staff Final v2.pdf – 971KB Opens in a new window

This role will be required to work across the Strategic Planning and Risk team supporting the Head of Strategic Planning and Risk, Risk Leads and managers to deliver an expert planning, risk and assurance service at both corporate and business group levels. Key responsibilities will include:

• Working with the Risk leads to ensure an effective understanding of key MPS and business group level risks and organisational learning opportunities. Facilitating the work of internal audit providing relevant information and advice.
• Collecting, collating and analysing information to enable the monitoring of audit recommendations, risk areas, organisational learning and research. Maintaining a database of corporate memory relating to this.
• Preparing inputs to corporate and business group level reports and guidance ensuring that they are of high quality and delivered within timescale.
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with external and internal stakeholders, ensuring that the MPS approach to risk and assurance is well understood and guidance is easily accessible

This role holder will have a key influence on the development of the risk and assurance framework and the understanding of risk and assurance information. The role holder will be responsible for:

• Supporting the production of risk and assurance reports to improve policing outcomes
• Collating and maintaining a database of corporate memory relating to audit, risk, assurance and organisational learning.
• Ensuring effective access to audit, risk and assurance information and guidance for internal stakeholders
• Joining up services across Strategy
• Supporting the effective day-to-day running of the Strategic Planning and Risk team

The role holder will have a key part in supporting the development of business planning across the organisation alongside maintaining the reporting mechanisms in place. The role holder will be responsible for:

• Supporting the development of the Met’s business planning processes
• Supporting engagement across the Met, partnering with business groups to develop their individual group business plans.
• Collating quarterly reports, data gathering and communication with Business Groups.
• Assisting in raising and maintaining the overall profile of Strategy across the business.
• Responding proactively to requests and work effectively with others to undertake focused activity to meet and deliver priorities