23146 - Risk Resilience Manager

This role sits in the newly formed Security Risk Unit. Its objectives are to ensure HMPPS is managing its security risks effectively; identify new and emerging security risks; prioritise and plan responses to those risks; and provide the organisation with a library of knowledge for security practice. Strong risk management, risk resilience and risk practice will support HMPPS in better assessing security risks and the Agency’s tolerance to risk.

Risk Resilience will ensure the organisation is successfully identifying and prioritising new security risks, enabling HMPPS to become more proactive in its approach to managing security. The team will help determine the current operational resilience and tolerance to emerging risks, and where a vulnerability exists, begin building HMPPS resilience to prioritised risks through engagement with the relevant stakeholders and providing recommendations on response plans. Our focus is to create an effective security culture throughout the organisation.

This is a national post, regular attendance to meetings in London and occasional travel across the HMPPS estate will be required. The job holder will report directly to the Head of Risk Resilience and there is the potential to hold responsibility for managing a small team of staff. The Risk Resilience Manager is a non-operational role.

The job holder will report directly to the Head of Risk Resilience and there is the potential to hold responsibility for managing a small team of staff.

The Risk Resilience Manager is a non-operational role.

Summary

• The post holder will be expected to build and maintain relationships with a range of stakeholders to promote effective risk resilience. They will need to build credibility rapidly with both internal and external colleagues at senior levels.
• This role requires the ability to think proactively on how we tackle our priority risks, considering new ways of working to increase the resilience of HMPPS. The job holder will need to be experienced at communicating with a variety of audiences on developing security risks and understand how the organisation can develop its resilience. This needs to be done in the most effective way to ensure key messages are successfully conveyed.
• The post holder will feel comfortable making informed and effective decisions on what the service should do to build its resilience to prioritised risks. They will be highly organised and able to deliver under time pressure – this role is part of a new and developing unit whose workflow is constantly evolving, the ability to multi-task and manage pressing deadlines is a must.
• The post holder will be required to demonstrate the values that guide our work when dealing with colleagues and external bodies at all levels, in all transactions. SRU’s values are creativity, communication, integrity, effectiveness, purpose and teamwork. We continue to be a values-driven organisation and will use these to set a common standard for behaviour and set expectations around how we interact with one another.

Responsibilities, Activities & Duties

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

• To identify, assess and report in a timely manner on new and emerging risks to HMPPS security.
• To define our current operational resilience and tolerance to emerging risks.
• To build HMPPS resilience to prioritised risks, through engagement with the relevant stakeholders and provide recommendations on response plans.
• To inform and contribute to HMPPS Control Strategy, identifying and prioritising security risks from which decisions will be made on the appropriate allocation of resources.
• To become a subject matter expert in prioritised risk areas and provide advice and guidance across the estate on various risks, working with internal and external stakeholders as required.
• To be accountable for the identification and prioritisation of the risks associated with crime, technology, legal, political, economic, health or environmental trends that might have an impact on HMPPS security.
• To be responsible for monitoring the impact of the resilience measures implemented to reassess the trajectory of the risk.
• To engage with and build a network of security risk experts to support the identification and assessment of new risks.  
• To successfully communicate identified risks to different target audiences through varying communication tools and, where necessary, influence senior decision makers to support resilience building activity.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The Job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the Job Holder.

Competencies

For the purpose of selection the following competencies will be measured:

• Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Leading and Communicating
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace

Essential Qualifications, accreditation Registration & Skills

Essential

• Strong communication (written and verbal), leadership and partnership working skills
• Problem-solving, thinking creatively and decision-making skills
• Ability to deliver at pace, multi-task and manage pressing deadlines
• Ability to be adaptable and willingness to become involved in new things – the work of the team is dynamic and we are all required to be adaptable and respond to emerging pressures and areas for consideration.

Desirable

• An understanding of criminal justice.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh    

Closing Date: 2nd January 2018 at 23:55 hours

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