Risk %26 Assurance Business Partner

UKRI; Swindon; On-site; GBP 46,000; Full time

Job description

UK Research and Innovation

Salary: £45,272 per annum.
Hours: Full time
Contract Type: Open Ended.
Location: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire.

Closing date: 20th April 2025

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the largest public funder of research and innovation (R&I) in the UK, spanning all disciplines and all sectors. We invest in people, places, ideas, innovation and impacts, empowering researchers, innovators, and entrepreneurs to turn the many challenges we face into opportunities.

The Risk & Assurance Business Partners work as part of the Risk and Assurance team, with the Head of Risk and Assurance, supporting the Director of Risk, Assurance and Counter Fraud, and other UKRI senior leaders to ensure that UKRI operates best practice throughout its risk management and integrated assurance arrangements. The postholder may support work with stakeholders in government and other funders and partners on risk, assurance, and control framework approaches.

Key Skills:

1. Excellent people skills, able to influence, build and maintain strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally.
2. Enthusiastic, motivated, adaptable, and proactive with the ability to work flexibly in a changing environment and respond to shifting priorities.
3. Ability to innovate and challenge established thinking in self and others, and to offer insights and ideas with practical application coupled with the ability to drive change.
4. Insightful business awareness with the ability to understand and analyse changing business context and landscape to assess and manage risk, capitalise on emerging opportunities, make sound evidence-based judgements, promote the interests of UKRI and research and innovation.
5. Ability to instil confidence within stakeholders at a range of levels, acting as a trusted advisor.
6. Excellent communication skills including good experience of writing reports to a high standard.
7. Strong understanding of risk, assurance, and audit activities.
8. Excellent attention to detail and good system based and general administration skills.

Essential Skills/Qualifications/Experience

1. Strong risk management experience, including operating effective risk management strategies, policy, and frameworks in an organisation.
2. Experience of writing papers and delivering agenda items in relevant forums.
3. Experience collaborating with teams at a range of levels and being a trusted advisor providing expert professional advice to management.
4. Experience of working with internal and external Auditors (preferably National Audit Office).

Qualifications

1. Member of the Institute of Risk Management.
2. Or
3. Equivalent Risk & Assurance qualification.

How to apply

Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered.