Risk Senior Officer

Venn Group

Risk Senior Officer
Recruitment Agency Reference: 7025820

Rate: DOE

Location: Plymouth

A position has arisen for a Risk Senior Officer within a leading Defence organisation in the South West, to join a developing Programme Management Organisation (PMO) as a Risk Senior Officer/Specialist within the Warships Business Unit. This is a 6 month contract with the possibility of extension thereafter.

You will be responsible for:

• As the Risk Senior Officer/Specialist (PMO), the successful candidate will provide appropriate Risk information enabling informed decision making by the programme and business leads

• The successful candidate will enjoy working within a developing PMO team that engages both internally with business and programme leaders as well as important stakeholders of our customer community

• Act as the primary contact and owner for risk management data and analytics for the warships PMO team

• Coordinate a plan that provides a clear risk management approach within Warships to enable project, programme, portfolio and business risk to be understood and used for decision support. To include all templates

• Develop and propose changes to the plan resulting from changes in Marine Policy, consultation on Best Practise and internal feedback and Learning from Experience obtained through the engagement and reviews

• Implement the management plan across Warships and approved changes as agreed

• Advise stakeholders (especially risk register maintainers) on the Warships plan and approach

• Promote balanced view of Threats and Opportunities

• Compile and present Programme and Business Risks regularly to Programme and Business Management. escalation and feedback

• Assure compliance

• Working collaboratively within the Business Insight function and the PMO team and with the Warships team, participate in the development of improved management information enabling better informed decision making by the programme and business leads

• Act as Project Manager for specific projects/changes within area of responsibility

• Support and promote all Business Unit safety drives and initiatives

• Managing Corporate risk, working with site wide Risk Managers to comply with Site wide Risk management

Essential candidate experience and knowledge:

• Programme Management Office / P3O

• Project, Change, Finance and Risk Management

• Naval support: an understanding of Upkeep and Fleet Time Support Period planning and delivery processes

• Working in partnering and collaborative working environments with customers and other companies

• Controlling classified and sensitive information

• Competency in verbal and written communications to deliver outputs at Board Level, with a track record of using MS Office Suite of programmes

Please note: candidates will need to satisfy security criteria.

If you are interested in this position or would like to find out more about similar roles please contact Joanna Hutchings and email your updated CV to jhutchings@venngroup.com

Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.