Regulatory Risk Manager in London

We are looking for a Regulatory Risk Manager to be based at any of our office locations: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, York, Glasgow. At ORR we have adopted hybrid working and are currently expected to work from a workplace location for a minimum of two days per week or 40%.

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is the independent economic and safety regulator for Britain’s railways and monitor of performance on England’s strategic road network. This is an exciting time to join ORR, we are delivering a significant transformation programme to create a consistently agile and enabling organisation, with the right capability and a strong, inclusive culture that reflects our talented people. This will ensure we continue to operate as an independent, expert regulator, fit for the future and equipped with the capabilities and ways of working required to support sector-wide rail reform, while contributing to the government’s broader agenda on regulatory reform and economic growth.

This role sits within RSD’s Capability team. The team delivers a range of policy, regulatory and corporate functions, as well as providing strategic direction to RSD’s work through our Strategic Risk Chapters (SRCs), risk profiling workshops, data analysis and business planning. The team also leads on new projects and continuous improvements to many of the RSD systems and processes that facilitate the delivery of core regulatory activities and support the competence and capability of our staff.

The Regulatory Risk Manager will focus on managing and improving how we identify and prioritise safety risks across the railway and leading the development & publication of our SRCs to help ORR and the wider industry focus on the areas that matter most for health and safety. You will lead risk profiling activities and ensure decisions are based on robust evidence and data. You will apply your risk management experience and technical skills, particularly risk modelling and data analysis in the challenging and diverse railway health and safety regulatory environment, ensuring RSD priorities align with the strategic ORR objective to deliver a safer and healthier railway, particularly as we respond to the changes arising from Rail Reform.

A key part of the role will be helping RSD understand and challenge the use of health and safety data and risk analysis within each of the sectors we regulate - mainline, trams and light rail, heritage and Transport for London. Each of these sectors is at a different stage of maturity and collaboration in gathering evidence to support understanding of risk. For the mainline railway, the Rail Standards and Safety Board (RSSB) helps its members to deliver health and safety on the railway through, amongst other things, analysis of shared data. RSD must be able to challenge all sectors to improve the way they manage risk, as well as ensuring RSD has the required data and understanding of that data, to deliver our regulatory role.

Two key areas of work will be facilitating our annual programme of risk profiling workshops which help shape our business planning and intervention work plans, and the successful implementation of the project to improve our suite of SRCs.