About the job

Job summary

The successful candidate will predominantly focus on a specific project to help risk assess each of our environmental and social schemes to ensure risks are identified and controls are effectively operating. In addition, the successful candidate will provide risk management support to the Project Management Office to ensure that project risks and issues are dealt with appropriately.

Ofgem administers a range of environmental and social programmes on behalf of Government. Ensuring participants or obligated suppliers on these schemes comply with the relevant requirements is essential to maintain scheme integrity and provide value for money. 

Purpose

Strengthening the understanding and application of effective risk management across the teams that plan, deliver, and support our schemes is of key importance in this role. This will be achieved through educating and supporting staff and senior management to ensure that material risks are captured, managed, and escalated effectively. 

The post holder will also manage a range of activities that support the delivery of the Assurance Framework and the Annual Assurance Plan. This will involve working closely with colleagues from ‘frontline’ teams to deliver process reviews or routine assurance activities that identify weaknesses in existing controls and developing solutions or assurance activities to mitigate these risks.   

Job description

Key Outputs and Deliverables 

Risk: 

• Providing independent risk management advice and supporting colleagues to strengthen their understanding and application of effective risk and issue management across Delivery and Schemes. 
• Supporting the directorate’s Senior Risk Manager in Delivery and Schemes to provide subject matter expertise where needed, share good practice, and ensure common approach, understanding and that processes are applied consistently across the directorate. To develop and build confidence and capability amongst this network. 
• Ensuring the Delivery and Schemes risk management system is maintained, risks and issues are routinely reviewed, and that new and emerging risks are identified, recorded, and mitigated effectively, providing guidance and challenge to risk owners and the leadership team where necessary. 
• Production of high-quality papers and reports for the directorate’s committees and boards, ensuring issues or risks requiring escalation are identified and communicated effectively. 
• Supporting the Senior Risk Manager to ensure that the directorates risk and issue processes align with the wider Ofgem risk framework and support the development of Ofgem’s framework and tools. 

Assurance: 

• Working with the Risk and Assurance Lead to develop and deliver the Delivery and Schemes Annual Assurance Plan. 
• Working closely with frontline teams and internal stakeholders to identify, scope and deliver risk-based assurance reviews and routine assurance activities to agreed timelines. 
• Keep up to date with developments across the directorate and wider Ofgem, promoting the work of the Risk and Assurance Team and best practice in Risk and Assurance to ensure Delivery and Schemes is effectively administering its programmes.  
• Assist in the day-to-day supervision of junior team members. 

Key Stakeholder Relationships

Internal

• Delivery & Schemes Leadership Team
• Deputy Directors and their leadership teams
• Risk and Issue owners
• Central Ofgem Risk and Assurance team

External

• Relevant Government stakeholders
• Third party contractors (such as internal auditors)

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• Knowledge and experience of risk management frameworks, processes and best practice, and how these can be applied. (Lead criteria) 
• Effective communication and collaboration skills and the ability to build effective stakeholder relationships and excellent working relationships with a wide range of teams and individuals. (Lead criteria) 
• A professional qualification in risk management and/or relevant work experience.  
• Ability to review, provide scrutiny and challenge processes and documents created by other teams.  
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills and good attention to detail.

Desirable Criteria

• A project management qualification or equivalent project management experience. 
• A good understanding of HMT Risk Management advice for government departments. 
• Knowledge of renewable heat, electricity, or energy efficiency. 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £32,498, OFGEM contributes £8,774 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.

When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.  

You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities. 

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. 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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