Senior Risk & Resilience Specialist

Senior Risk & Resilience Specialist

Contract Type:
Permanent

Location:

London

Salary:
London based-c.£82,000 (more may be available for exceptional candidates + Civil Service Pension)

Are you ready to play a pivotal role at the heart of government accountability?

The National Audit Office (NAO) supports Parliament in holding government to account and improving public services. The NAO  sets two strategic outcomes: improving the productivity and resilience of public services and strengthening financial management and reporting across government.

As the Senior Risk & Resilience Specialist within the NAO’s Financial & Risk Management Insights team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and strengthening risk and resilience practices across public services. This high‑profile role provides significant exposure to senior civil servants and other strategic stakeholders, offering the opportunity to shape insights that inform Parliament’s scrutiny of government and support improvements in public service delivery.

Acting as the organisation’s specialist adviser on risk and resilience, you will provide expert guidance to both the NAO and government departments across Whitehall and Parliament, and the wider public sector, to shape good practice and drive continuous improvement. You will also build and sustain strong external relationships across government and communities of practice, including academia, think tanks and recognised thought leaders, to ensure NAO insights are informed by leading and emerging practice.

The breadth and complexity of this role mean you will be trusted to deliver authoritative insights and make a transformative impact on public sector resilience and risk management.

Working within Financial and Risk Management (FaRM) Insights, you will lead and develop the NAO’s risk and resilience capability, provide advisory support to client service delivery teams, design and shape audit methodologies, curate good practice, and strengthen risk management and resilience practices across government, drawing on insights, good practice and lessons learned, through engagement, influence, collaboration.

This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to the NAO’s ambition to improve the productivity and resilience of public services by generating authoritative risk and resilience insight that strengthens Parliament’s scrutiny of government.

To apply, candidates should submit no more than two sides of A4, clearly outlining their suitability and providing concrete examples of how they meet each of the five key shortlist criteria listed above. In addition, applicants are required to submit their CV alongside their supporting statement.

• Demonstrable subject matter expertise and technical leadership in risk management and resilience: to credibly lead, shape and strengthen the NAO’s risk and resilience expertise.
• Insight generation and knowledge: to leverage subject matter expertise to distil complex risk and resilience activity into actionable insights matter expertise
• Influence, judgement and communication: to exercise independent judgement and influence senior stakeholders and experts
• Collaboration, networks and engagement: to operate effectively across a complex and varied range of stakeholders to establish and build sustainable and effective relationships
• Capability building and inclusive leadership: to build and nurture sustainable specialist capability, leading and managing by example