Consultant (Risk Management)

ABOUT SQUARCLE / THE TEAM

Squarcle is a growing strategy, operations and digital consultancy dedicated to improving the performance of our clients.

We are a people-orientated organisation and pride ourselves on our people-first culture.

Unlike many consultancies, Squarcle is equally committed to delivery as it is to design, working alongside our clients to turn strategy into tangible outcomes.

Our Defence and Digital teams support clients operating within complex, fast-paced and highly regulated environments.

We work collaboratively with client delivery teams and key stakeholders to provide the planning, governance and delivery expertise required to successfully deliver complex programmes and projects.

Squarcle is committed to equality and diversity, and our aim is to build a diverse, dedicated and high-performing team of subject matter experts who can support our clients in achieving operational and digital excellence.

JOB OVERVIEW / INTRODUCTION

The Consultant (Risk Management) will deliver agreed risk management activities across a wide range of projects and programmes.

This includes identifying, assessing, managing and reporting risks within the scope and level of autonomy agreed for the engagement.

Working closely with Project and Programme Managers, delivery teams and client stakeholders, the Consultant (Risk Management) will maintain accurate risk information, facilitate risk reviews and help ensure appropriate mitigation actions are identified and tracked.

The role will support effective project controls and governance by providing clear visibility of risks, opportunities and their potential impact on successful delivery.

PRIMARY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Success in the role means maintaining accurate, current risk and opportunity information; producing clear reports to agreed governance deadlines; ensuring response actions have named owners and tracked progress; and escalating significant changes in exposure promptly through agreed channels.

Primary Duties of the Consultant (Risk Management) are

• Maintain project and programme risk and opportunity registers, ensuring information is accurate and up to date.
• Support teams in identifying, assessing and documenting risks and opportunities.

Work with the relevant owners to define mitigation actions for threats and actions to realise opportunities.

• Facilitate regular risk reviews and workshops with project teams and stakeholders.
• Monitor risk exposure, track mitigation actions with named owners and agreed completion dates, and elevate significant or emerging risks through agreed governance routes.

Support risk owners in reviewing residual exposure, while leaving decisions on risk acceptance and implementation of responses with the authorised owners.

• Undertake qualitative risk assessments using agreed probability and impact criteria.
• Where required and appropriate to the level of the role, support quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis by preparing and validating risk inputs, documenting assumptions and helping explain the results, with guidance from experienced analysts.
• Work alongside Project Managers, Schedulers and wider Project Controls teams to understand the potential impact of risks on cost, schedule and delivery.
• Produce regular risk reports and management information to support project governance and decision-making.
• Support the management of RAID logs, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies are appropriately captured and managed.
• Ensure risk management activity follows agreed client governance, processes and controls.
• SECONDARY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Secondary Duties of the Consultant (Risk Management) are

• Support continuous improvement of project risk management processes and templates.
• Assist with project and programme governance activities and reporting.
• Support the development of a positive risk management culture across delivery teams.
• Maintain appropriate risk documentation and audit trails.
• Contribute to wider Squarcle project controls capability and knowledge sharing.
• Support other project and programme activities as required.
• KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL

• Previous experience within project risk management, project controls or project delivery.
• Experience maintaining risk registers and supporting risk identification and assessment.
• Understanding of risk probability, impact, exposure and mitigation.
• Experience facilitating or contributing to project risk reviews, with the ability to prepare an agenda, draw out stakeholder input and capture agreed risks, owners and actions when facilitating a review.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interpret risk information and communicate key points clearly to project stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Competent user of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
• Ability to work collaboratively with Project Managers, Project Controls teams and wider delivery stakeholders.
• Ability to meet the security requirements associated with the role and relevant client engagements

DESIRABLE

• Experience working within Defence, Defence Digital, central government or another regulated environment.
• Experience supporting digital, technology or transformation programmes.
• Familiarity with risk management tools such as Active Risk Manager (ARM) or similar systems.
• Understanding of quantitative risk analysis, including schedule and/or cost risk.
• Knowledge of wider Project Controls disciplines, including scheduling, change control and cost management.
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery environments.
• A relevant qualification such as APM Project Risk Management Single Subject Certificate, APM PMQ or PRINCE2 would be advantageous.

What we offer

We believe great work deserves great rewards. Here’s what you can expect as part of the team:

• Generous leave package
• 26 days of annual leave (including your birthday!) plus UK bank holidays - increasing to 27 days after three years, and 28 after seven years
• You’ll also get five extra days for your 5 and 10-year anniversaries
• Additional leave for members of the Reserve Forces and CFAV.
• Private medical insurance
• Provided once you’ve completed your probation.
• Recognition and rewards
• £1,000 referral bonus for successful hires
• Performance-related awards
• Milestone and life-event hampers to celebrate life’s big moments
• Development & learning
• Annual training week abroad
• Funding for qualifications that benefit both you and the business
• Travel & wellbeing
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted travel through funded railcards
• Pension
• Our pension provider is NOW Pensions; pension contributions are 3% employer and 5% employee
• Maternity Package
• 6 months full pay

We review our benefits regularly to ensure they stay competitive and meaningful - so this list may evolve as we grow.

Our working hours are 8:30 am – 5:30 pm (with an hour for lunch), Monday – Friday.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This role requires you to have lived in the UK for the last 5 years and obtain Security Check (SC) security clearance.

Clearance must be obtained without any caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role you’ve been recruited for.

If it isn’t obtained, or is obtained but with caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role, any conditional offer made to you will be withdrawn.

Obtaining SC security clearance can be a lengthy process, and we reserve the right to withdraw any conditional offer made if the necessary security clearance isn’t obtained within 6 months.

If you hold dual citizenship or nationality from another country, please make us aware of this during the application phase.

We’re unable to offer visa sponsorship.

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