Governance and Risk Lead - Met Business Services (MBS)
Salary: The starting salary is £59,839 which includes allowances totalling £2,928. The salary is broken down as £56,911 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £69,342 Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: Kilburn
The Met Business Service (MBS) is a critical enabler of the Met's strategic objectives, including the delivery of the New Met for London. The MBS Delivery Services function is primarily responsible for ensuring that business services are delivered consistently, efficiently, and in alignment with user needs and strategic priorities.
The Role
The Governance & Risk Lead ensures robust governance and risk management across Met Business Services (MBS), enabling informed decision-making and operational resilience. The role provides strategic leadership to the Governance & Risk team, sets and maintains governance and risk frameworks for enabling functions, oversees compliance and assurance activities, and provides actionable insights to senior leaders. By integrating governance and risk practices into service delivery, the postholder strengthens organisational accountability and supports strategic priorities.
Working for the Met doesn't have to mean patrolling the streets. Just as important as our uniformed officers is our 14,000-strong team of professional and support staff working behind the scenes. It's these skilled people who provide the organisational capability to police London.
Duties and Responsibilities
* Governance Framework Ownership: Establish and maintain governance structures for enabling services, ensuring decision‑making forums, escalation routes, and accountability mechanisms comply with MPS policies, statutory obligations, and internal audit standards.
* Integrated Governance & Assurance Delivery: Coordinate governance, assurance and compliance activities across enabling services, embedding consistent standards and reporting processes. Partner with Performance & Assurance and Service Quality teams to ensure governance and compliance insights inform service performance and improvements.
* Risk & Compliance Oversight: Own and maintain enabling‑function risk registers and associated control environments. Ensure risks and compliance gaps are identified, assessed, and mitigated in line with MPS policy and regulatory requirements, escalating critical issues promptly and ensuring audit readiness.
* Strategic Risk & Assurance Planning: Lead horizon scanning and scenario planning to identify emerging risks, dependencies, and opportunities affecting enabling services. Provide evidence‑based recommendations to strengthen organisational resilience and support long‑term strategic objectives.
* Stakeholder Engagement & Team Leadership: Act as a senior liaison with MPS governance forums, corporate functions, and transformation programmes. Lead the Governance & Risk team, setting priorities, building capability, and delivering a clear workplan that balances strategic commitments with operational demand.
Benefits
You will enjoy the kind of great benefits that you'd expect from one of London's largest employers.
* Annual leave entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service
* Civil service pension arrangements
* Interest free season ticket loans
* Membership of Met sports and social clubs
* Flexible working conditions and many more.
London is one of the most exciting and diverse cities in the world - and policing it is no easy task. It takes a huge number of people from all sorts of different backgrounds with a wide range of skills and experience. Do you have what it takes to be one of them? Find out if a career with the Met is what you're looking for and what kind of challenges; experience and rewards you could have in store.
To streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
How to Apply
To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply button". The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and Personal Statement.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 3rd March 2026.
Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. The application review for this vacancy will commence one to two weeks after vacancy has closed.
Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates are to be confirmed.
Essential For The Role
Essential Skills
* Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, capable of engaging senior leaders, service delivery teams and external partners
* Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret performance data and risk information to support informed decision‑making
* Skilled in designing, coordinating, and maintaining governance forums, registers, and assurance reporting processes
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to prepare clear and concise reports for a wide range of audiences
* Ability to work methodically and accurately under pressure, ensuring compliance and mitigating risk
* Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work across function teams e.g. Audit
* Ability to manage multiple priorities across governance, risk and assurance activities
* Detail‑oriented with a focus on ensuring content accuracy, compliance and governance alignment
* Evidenced ability to build team capability in the relevant fields pertaining to the role
Experience
* Experience managing governance, compliance, or risk activities within a large or complex organisation
* Proven experience in coordinating operational assurance, reporting, or risk oversight to support senior decision‑making
* Experience working with cross‑functional teams to embed governance and risk controls into operational processes
* Background in maintaining registers, dashboards, or reporting frameworks to monitor compliance and track actions
* Experience engaging with internal audit, regulatory, or assurance functions to ensure consistent governance and risk management
Knowledge
* Strong understanding of governance frameworks, compliance and assurance processes within complex organisations.
* Knowledge of risk management principles, including identification, assessment, escalation, and mitigation of operational risks.
* Knowledge of service management operations, continuous improvement, and how governance and risk quality oversight supports operational effectiveness.
* Familiarity with public sector or corporate regulatory requirements, internal audit standards, and organisational policies.
Reports To: Head of MBS Delivery (Band A)
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long‑term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.
As a Disability Confident Leader, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long‑term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.
Please note, if you are applying for a police officer role or to become a police community support officer (PCSO) or designated detention officer (DDO), there is a minimum requirement that you must pass a job‑related fitness test (JRFT) at point of entry. This does not apply to police staff roles. Find out more about .
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