# Service Justice System and Policing Governance, Risk and Assurance Manager **Company**: Ministry of Defence **Location**: City of Westminster, Greater London **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: GBP 46,040 per year **Category**: Defence & Intelligence **Industry**: Aerospace & Defence **Apply**: https://www.jobsgopublic.com/job/service-justice-system-and-policing-governance-risk-and-assurance-manager-116319?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/service-justice-system-and-policing-governance-a4831a1c-4b6/ ## Description The Conduct, Justice & Legislation Directorate provides strategic leadership, policy direction and assurance across Defence's conduct, discipline, policing, complaints, legislation and casework systems. This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. The post holder will work in a bespoke Directorate-wide risk and assurance function across Conduct, Justice and Legislation. The post holder will support the Risk & Assurance lead to establish and maintain a single process of strategic and delivery risk, design proportionate assurance arrangements, strengthen controls, provide evidence-based reporting and support senior leaders and governance Boards to make timely, defensible decisions. Key responsibilities: - Assist in the design, implementation and continuous improvement of a Directorate-wide risk model, including risk appetite, ownership, scoring, controls, mitigations, review rhythm and escalation routes. - Assist in establishing and maintaining a proportionate assurance framework aligned to Directorate governance, portfolio priorities, delivery milestones, performance reporting and senior decision points. - Maintain the strategic oversight of risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, opportunities and controls across the Conduct, Justice and Legislation portfolio, ensuring timely escalation and resolution. - Produce decision-ready reporting for senior leaders and governance boards, including consolidated risk reports, assurance summaries, control assessments and evidence-based recommendations. - Work with programme, sponsorship, policy and operational teams to create clear audit trails for decisions, risks, controls, approvals, actions and delivery evidence. - Assist assurance activity across high-priority programmes, implementation activity and emerging business requirements, identifying gaps, weaknesses, duplication and opportunities for improvement. - Coordinate risk and assurance inputs for ministerial, parliamentary, senior board or external scrutiny requirements where required. - Strengthen portfolio controls, including action tracking, recommendation tracking, benefits evidence, dependency management and governance reporting. - Provide appropriate leadership and direction to any supporting risk or assurance resource, setting standards for analysis, reporting, escalation and assurance products. Person specification: Essential criteria: - Significant operational experience across risk, assurance, governance, controls, PMO, programme delivery or portfolio management activity in a complex organisation. - Experience of developing and operating risk management frameworks, assurance approaches, governance products and senior-level reporting. - Experience of providing evidence-based advice to senior leaders, including clear analysis of risks, controls, dependencies, options and recommended action. - Strong understanding of risk management, assurance, internal controls, delivery governance, dependency management, escalation and audit trails. - Experience working with multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholders to improve delivery grip, reporting quality and accountability. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn complex or sensitive information into clear, balanced and actionable advice. - Ability to work at pace, manage ambiguity and maintain professional judgement in high-profile or scrutinised environments. Desirable criteria: - Experience in Defence, wider public sector, regulated, statutory, assurance, audit or high-scrutiny environments. - Professional project delivery, risk, assurance, audit or governance qualification, or equivalent experience. - Experience designing assurance frameworks, portfolio controls, benefits evidence, recommendation trackers or senior board reporting products. - Experience in embedding standards and improving risk, assurance or project delivery maturity. Behaviours: - Changing and Improving - Making Effective Decisions - Communicating and Influencing - Delivering at Pace For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - risk management - assurance - governance - controls - portfolio management ### Nice to have - Defence - public sector - regulated - statutory - audit --- Source: [Apply at jobsgopublic.com](https://www.jobsgopublic.com/job/service-justice-system-and-policing-governance-risk-and-assurance-manager-116319?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)