About the job

Job summary

UK Export Finance faces a variety of risks from both external and internal sources and is committed to supporting a continuous improvement culture across the organisation with the aim of reducing operational, financial, and reputational losses from inadequate processes or systems, human error, unanticipated external events, or legal risk.

It is the responsibility of the Enterprise Risk Division to continually review, enhance, and develop the Department’s Enterprise Risk Framework. This framework is designed to ensure that adequate processes, procedures, reporting, and control mechanisms are in place to facilitate the identification, assessment, reporting, and remediation of operational risks within the Department that, unremedied, could lead to material and potentially fatal, financial consequences and/or reputational damage to the Department.

The Enterprise Risk Division operates via three teams:

• The Risk Governance team, responsible for designing, implementing, and managing a best practice Risk Appetite Framework within UKEF, supporting business functions to embed it in their day-to-day operations and managing RMG’s “corporate” contributions; managing UKEF’s Policy Library, setting best practice for Policy Management pan UKEF; managing the Enterprise Risk and Credit Committee (ERiCC).
• The Operational Risk team, responsible for designing, implementing, monitoring, and managing a best practice Operational Risk Framework within UKEF to support the effective management of risks within acceptable boundaries whilst achieving the strategic objectives within the UK Export Finance Business Plan.
• The Risk Assurance team, responsible for providing reliable assurance (evidence) to the Chief Executive and key governance committees on organisational stewardship and the management of major UKEF risks by delivering a programme of assurance testing and the control environment certificate (CEC) self-certification process. In addition, this team benchmarks UKEF’s risk processes against the cross-government standards detailed in the Orange Book and manages UKEFs approach to risk maturity.

Job description

The ERiCC Secretariat ensures the smooth running of ERiCC, which is responsible for advising the Chief Executive on the effective management of UKEF’s credit risk exposures at the case specific and portfolio level, and operational and enterprise-wide risks across UKEF, in accordance with UKEF's policies.  ERiCC also ensures that credit risks and enterprise risks are properly monitored and controlled through UKEF’s processes and systems.

Should you be successful in this role, there is the opportunity to undertake an Apprenticeship (subject to course availability and candidate’s existing qualifications).

Person specification

1. Deliver secretariat activities to ensure the smooth running of ERiCC including:

• • Managing the ERiCC mailbox and liaising with the ERiCC Chair.
  • Producing agendas and taking minutes.
  • Recording and following up on actions commissioned by ERiCC.
  • Booking rooms and coordinating diaries of committee members to ensure quorum.
  • Filing ERiCC papers and maintaining the ERiCC SharePoint site.
  • Regular review of the ERiCC Terms of Reference.
  • Preparation and presentation of regular reports on ERiCC activities.
  • Day-to-day administration of delegated authorities.

 

2. Provide private office support to the Chief Risk Officer including:

• • Diary management.
  • Coordinate preparation for meetings, conferences and visits (UK and international).
  • Manage the CRO’s incoming emails and correspondence to prioritise and co-ordinate the CRO’s work appropriately, according to relative importance and urgency.

This list is not exhaustive; the job holder may be required to carry out additional duties according to business need.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,000, UK Export Finance contributes £9,990 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

You will be invited to complete the online application form.  The application form must be completed by 23.55 on the day of the closing date for it to be accepted.

All applications will be sifted against our minimum selection criteria outlined in the personal specification.

You will be asked in the relevant sections of the application form to provide examples of evidence against a range of the success profiles (refer to appendix 1).  Where applicants are asked to apply with a personal statement, you should fully articulate in 500 words how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification within the Information Pack

For the initial sift your application will be evaluated against:

• Experience
• Technical
• Behaviours (You will be required to write a 250-word statement on the below):
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

In the event of a large sift, there will be a pre-sift on the following essential criteria:

• Strong communication and influencing skills. Ability to convey complex information clearly with confidence and credibility.
• Writing minutes, reports and policy papers featuring detailed analysis and clear recommendations for decision makers.

 If you are successful following the sift stage, you will be invited to an initial interview; this will include the following assessment:

• Behaviours/Technical/Experience - a formal panel interview where you will be interviewed across all five behaviours highlighted in Appendix 1 and your technical ability to successfully carry out the role.
• Technical - a minute based written exercise (this will be on a topic determined by UKEF).

Details of interview panel members will be e-mailed to all successful candidates who are invited for interview.

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

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). 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

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). 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. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.