Head of Risk and Compliance

Overview

The Risk and Compliance team at Oxford Policy Management is currently seeking a Head of Risk and Compliance on a Permanent basis .

The position will be located at our Oxford Office .

We are an international development consultancy working to improve lives through sustainable policy change in low- and middle-income countries. Our vision is for fair public policy that benefits both people and the planet.

Through our global network of offices, we work in partnership with national stakeholders and decision makers to research, design, implement and evaluate impactful public policy. We draw on our local and international sector experts to provide the very best evidence-based support. We deliver projects with expert knowledge and experience and can be relied upon for excellence in all aspects of project delivery. We work collaboratively, with ambition, to help deliver impactful public policy that will bring about lasting change.

Position Summary

The position of Head of Risk and Compliance is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining risk and compliance systems for OPM, ensuring legal and client requirements are met and to advise and support the Board and the SMT to enhance organizational performance in risk and compliance. You will be working as part of an interdisciplinary team across our global network. You will also be working with people from all parts of the business up to and including the Board.

As a Head of Risk and Compliance at OPM you will:

1. Manage the risk and compliance function including:
   • Develop and manage enterprise risk management framework
   • Maintain, monitor, and update corporate risk register and update key risk indicators
   • Support others in maintaining, monitoring and updating their risk registers and compliance checklists
   • Oversee supplier due diligence framework
2. Oversee Internal Audit including:
   • Supplier management of internal audit service provider.
   • Support internal audit function and coordinate teams
   • Create and manage effective action plans in response to audit recommendations and compliance violations
3. Policy Management including:
   • Maintain and manage policy register and framework
   • Support development of company policies across all entities
4. Safeguarding Lead including:
   • Direct policy and define corporate safeguarding processes
   • Act as OPM representative and liaison with external bodies and internal stakeholders
5. Co-ordinate investigations including:
   • Whistleblowing hotline oversight
   • Co-ordinate and conduct internal investigations
   • Critical Incident Management support and co-ordination
6. Training and Reporting including:
   • Providing training on risk management and compliance matters as necessary
   • Ensure continuous knowledge development regarding sector’s rules, regulations, best practices, tools, techniques and performance standards
   • Provide regular reports to Senior Management and the Board on areas of responsibility
   • Carry out external Compliance reporting

Key Qualifications / Experience / Skills / Behaviours

• Graduate with 8 years’ work experience of risk management and the support of continuous organizational improvement.
• Risk Management qualification, or equivalent, by a recognized provider.
• Experience of:
  • introducing robust processes to private businesses including those around compliance and risk
  • designing and adapting business processes to comply with legal and client requirements with a proportionate and business friendly design
• Excellent influencing and interpersonal skills with people at all levels of the business and effective professional liaison with external contacts.
• High standard of both spoken and written English, with particular emphasis on oral communication skills, with strong influencing and presenting skills.
• Good organizational skills.
• Pragmatic and solution-oriented, the candidate must have the ability to move between big picture and detail.

Desired qualifications/experience:

• Experience of business process re-engineering and designing management processes.
• Exposure to working internationally and has an appreciation of local contextual requirements.

Our Offer

• We enable colleagues’ capacity to grow professionally through enhanced learning resources, opportunities to work cross functionally, and space to engage with a range of internal and external industry events.
• Our non-hierarchical culture values support, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, and a rich diversity of perspectives.
• We provide an exceptionally generous annual leave entitlement and a hybrid working model to encourage and enable healthy work/life balance.
• Wellbeing resources including a global Employee Assistance Programme and access to the UnMind app.
• Competitive salary and contributory pension scheme.

We are strengthened by the diversity of colleagues across our global business and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer, promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace for all.

Our recruitment practices reflect our ambition to make the international development sector more inclusive and firm belief that our work delivers the best outcomes when we actively include a diversity of perspectives and experiences.

Application

If you share our vision for fair public policy that benefits both people and planet, we would love to hear from you.

Please submit your application through our careers’ site by the closing date. We review and interview applicants on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply by way of CV via our careers site at the earliest.

We may close this advertisement before the published closing date, should a suitable candidate be identified.

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role and candidates must have a pre-existing right to work in the UK for their application to be considered.

Oxford Policy Management is committed to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion at every level of the business. Should you require adjustments to make the application process more accessible please contact us via:

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