Bristol, South West England, BS1 6EH : Longstanton, East of England, CB24 3EN : Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2GN : Guildford, South East England, GU1 4LZ : Liverpool, North West England, L3 1BP : Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS11 9AT : Salford, North West England, M3 5AX : Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, NE4 5BZ
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, Infrastructure Loans, 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 the Development, Investment, and Markets Partners & Places 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.
The role is being advertised as a 9 to 12 month fixed term contract, which will provide the postholder with a comprehensive grounding in risk management within the Agency.
You will be educated to degree level or will have broad ranging equivalent experience and you may hold a relevant post-graduate or professional qualification. You will be able to deal with diverse and complex risk matters across multiple activities and funding programmes.
You will have experience of promoting sound and commercially focussed risk management principles and practices within a public/ private sector environment. You will have strong communications skills and be able to negotiate with a wide range of senior internal and external stakeholders with conflicting agendas and priorities.
You will be able to solve problems and provide practical solutions and approaches to politically sensitive and complex issues across multiple programmes and scenarios. You can make strong and robust decisions and are committed to delivering a high-quality output to tight deadlines.
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.
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