Director of Organisational Risk Management
Southampton, Hampshire
With over 29,000 students and staff, the University offers courses from over 65 subject areas, which are informed by the latest research and taught by world-renowned academics. Coupled with the University’s enterprise, large-scale facilities and comprehensive partnerships, this is creating solutions for some of the world's most pressing challenges. This role will focus on developing, implementing, and supporting continual improvement in risk management across the University.
The Director of Organisational Risk Management will drive the implementation of the University’s risk and resilience strategy, providing oversight of all related matters and influencing the direction and profile of risk management across the University, including:
1. Developing and leading the team to influence and implement the University’s adoption of a comprehensive, consistent, and collaborative approach to risk.
2. Accountability for the University’s management framework and effective governance of risks.
3. Providing expert advice and a check and challenge function to senior colleagues across the University to ensure operational risks and the strategic risk register are relevant and robust and suitably aligned to strategic planning.
4. Developing the Resilience Strategy (business continuity, crises management and incident respons...