Risk and Governance Supervision Manager

Closing Date:
18/11/2024

Group:
Online Safety Group

Management Level:
Senior Associate

Job Type:
Permanent

How to Apply:
Please submit your CV, along with a covering letter of no more than 2 pages in length, outlining how you meet the essential skills, knowledge and experience required for the role. You should submit your CV and covering letter as one document at the point where you are asked to upload your CV.

About Ofcom:
As the UK's communications regulator, we're delivering vital work that helps keep the UK connected and shapes the future of how we'll stay connected with each other. Our work covers everything from phones and broadband, through to TV, radio, the postal service, and wireless devices. We're also taking on the challenge of making the online world a safer place.

About the team you'll be part of:
The Online Safety Group's purpose is to ensure UK citizens have a safer life online, by implementing and overseeing the requirements under the Online Safety Act 2023. The Group is responsible for delivering online safety policy, supervising online services, and building the technical expertise to ensure the aims of the regime are met.

The purpose and scope of the role:
We are recruiting a Supervision Manager role to lead projects relating to corporate governance and risk assessment strategy and standards within Supervision. This role involves effective project management, understanding Ofcom's Online Safety codes and guidance, problem-solving, delivering clear communications, and managing stakeholders proactively.

Your Key Responsibilities:
Key responsibilities may include:

1. Developing and managing cross-team workplans for projects on governance and risk assessment strategy and standards, in collaboration with teams across Ofcom.
2. Developing and overseeing core operational processes to support the Supervision team's work on corporate governance and risk assessments and ensure it is efficient and effective.
3. Acting as an expert internal advisor on corporate governance and risk assessment, identifying internal needs and training for teams.
4. Assessing, evaluating and synthesising service risk assessments for illegal harms and content harmful to children, working closely with other technical experts.
5. Assessing, evaluating and synthesising corporate governance practices of regulated services.
6. Working with Supervision teams and others to identify and drive improvements in regulated services on risk and governance related issues.
7. Ensuring the delivery of clear, concise and focused documents, such as briefings and research reports, for internal use or external publication.
8. Overseeing and managing the workload of colleagues and delivering through others across the OS programme. Supporting and coaching junior colleagues.
9. Building and maintaining effective relationships with teams across Ofcom that work with Supervision.
10. Delivering and contributing to initiatives across the Supervision Team to support our strategy as a whole.

The skills, knowledge and experience you'll need for success:
We welcome people with a keen interest or practical knowledge of Online Safety regulation and our mission to create a safer life online for people in the UK. We are specifically looking for people with:

1. Understanding of risk management and governance approaches, whether in relation to online safety, technology, or other sectors.
2. Experience in research and analysis of complex risk registers or risk assessments in technology, finance or other sectors.
3. Experience in drafting and producing clear, concise documents for internal use or external publication.

Although we welcome people from all backgrounds to apply, we are particularly interested in hearing from people with previous experience in: online safety research and risk management, expertise evaluating corporate governance; or the preparation of risk assessment frameworks or evaluation of company risk management processes. These are not essential criteria.

Ofcom has a clear mission: to make communications work for everyone. To be able to deliver on this, we want our organisation to reflect the diversity of background, experience, upbringing and thought that exists across the UK.