Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.
About us:
We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy. We have been officially awarded the Fourth Licence (10 year licence) to operate the National Lottery starting February 2024.
We’ve developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better. Our aim is to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.
Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself in being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace. All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications. Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, large-scale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.
Purpose of Role:
* To deliver the Business Continuity Management (BCM) programme within Allwyn UK
* To support and resource the alignment of Allwyn UK’s BCM to appropriate standards and best practice (e.g. ISO 22301), and to ensure compliance with Licence requirements.
* To update and provide continuous development of the suite of Business Impact Analyses and Business Continuity Plans
* To support full engagement with the business units in the development of continuity and aligned organisational resilience themes such as crisis management
Security Department Description:
* The Security team’s collective mission is to preserve the integrity of the National Lottery, secure sensitive or personal data processed by Allwyn or its partners and protect the premises and people that work across Allwyn UK. We work in a heavily regulated environment and must secure one of the most visited websites in the UK, a very large retail channel and numerous back-office systems spread across both on premise datacentres and the Cloud.
Business Continuity Team Description:
* Provides professional Business Continuity and wider organisational resilience support in accordance with national & International standards and licence obligations
* Provides technical compliance and assessment oversight of critical service providers and suppliers.
Key Accountabilities or Duties:
* To manage the continual development and delivery of Business Continuity other aligned organisational resilience work streams
* To support in the delivery, awareness and alignment with appropriate international standards e.g ISO 22301 & ISO 22313 & ISO 22316
* Delivery of and compliance with all statutory, regulatory and licence requirements relating to Business Continuity and Organisational Resilience
* Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation
* Provide Business Continuity awareness training and promotion of the Business Continuity Management system to relevant stakeholders
* Proactively support in the development, implementation, assessment, monitoring and communications of all BCMS risk assessments, Business Impact Analysis, Business Continuity Plans and processes for Allwyn UK.
* Development of Business Continuity testing and Crisis Management exercise scenarios
* Host and facilitate a variety of scenario based and live exercises to test organisational readiness, and response team capabilities via an annual program, regular maintenance, and internal and independent review.
* Maintain Crisis management plans
* To actively advance and embed a culture of Continuity and wider Organisational Resilience throughout Allwyn UK, and outward into its key critical suppliers
Skills & Experience:
* Knowledge and experience in either the field of Business continuity back-up by a professional qualification such as CBCI or equivalent
* Experience in the coordination and management relationship for Business continuity.
* Experience and an appreciation of risk and incident management, business impact analysis and recovery plans.
* An understanding and appreciation of International standards ISO 22301, ISO 22313, 22316, ITIL and CoBIT frameworks
* Comfortably deals with concepts and complexity in a dynamic environment
* Strong interpersonal skills with confidence to both support and challenge at all levels
* Builds constructive and effective relationships across all levels of the organisation
* Manages themselves effectively to get things done, and can work on multiple activities at once to accomplish objectives
* Personally committed to and actively works to continuously improve themselves
* Excellent communication both in writing and face to face
* Uses time effectively and efficiently to manage a broad range of activities.
* Ability communicate cross functionally at all levels of the business’s internally and with external relationships
* knowledge of Allwyn UK business processes, objectives and company wider structure and organisation
* Ability to identify issues, propose solutions and solve problems
* Manages and motivate themselves effectively to get things done, and can work on multiple activities at once to accomplish objectives
* Personally committed to and actively works to continuously professionally improve themselves through business professional support mechanism
Here is our list of benefits:
* 34 days paid leave (This includes bank holidays)
* 2 x Life Days
* 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
* Pension: We’ll contribute 8.5%
* BUPA
* £500 wellness allowance
* Income Protection
As part of our onboarding processes, all successful candidates will need to complete both a Pre-Employment Screening process and a Fit & Proper check by the Gambling Commission. These checks include a DBS (an enhanced check, which shows convictions and conditional cautions), credit and social media checks. As part of our application process, you will be asked to identify in advance if you have spent or unspent convictions that we need to be aware of.
Should you not disclose convictions at the application stage, not pass the Fit & Proper Check process or not complete your Pre-Employment Screening then unfortunately you may not pass our probation process.
All data will be handled in accordance with our data policies and treated with utmost confidentiality.