Director of Risk and Compliance

BBC Group and Public Services; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The BBC Group and Public Services is seeking a Director of Risk to provide strategic leadership across risk, resilience, compliance and organisational integrity. You will advise the Board and Executive Committee, shaping risk exposure and opportunities while safeguarding people, operations and reputation.

You will lead a pan-BBC function of 50+ professionals, championing culture, governance and responsible conduct, and ensuring robust controls across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience advising Boards, Committees and Executive teams in PLCs or large public sector organisations, operating within a mature Three Lines governance framework.
• Ability to provide clear, evidence-based advice on risk, governance and controls.
• Agility and flexibility in uncertainty to lead across strategic priorities.
• Experience developing and embedding enterprise risk, resilience, business continuity and crisis management frameworks.
• Experience leading risk, compliance or assurance functions, building high-performing teams.
• Knowledge of organisation resilience, business continuity, crisis management and incident response in complex organisations.
• Knowledge of corporate investigations, whistleblowing and Speak Up frameworks and governance of sensitive investigations.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent insight, challenge and assurance to the Board and senior leaders on risk management and control effectiveness.
• Lead a pan-BBC function with 50+ professionals across risk, compliance, resilience, investigations, safety, safeguarding and security.
• Set and champion the organisation's risk, resilience and compliance strategy and governance frameworks.
• Oversee governance arrangements, risk appetite, escalation and reporting to inform executive decision-making.
• Promote a culture of accountability and integrity across the BBC Group, embedding learning from risk events.
• Ensure preparedness for incidents through crisis management frameworks and lessons learned.

Job description

Belfast, GBR, BT2 8HQ
| Birmingham, GBR, B1 1AY
| Cardiff, GBR, CF10 1FT
| Glasgow, GBR, G511DA
| London, GBR, W1A 1AA
| Salford, GBR, M50 2HQ

JOB DETAILS

Band: SL
Contract type: 1 x continuing (permanent) role
Location: Salford, Birmingham, Cardiff, Belfast, London, Glasgow

JOB INTRODUCTION

As Director of Risk, you will provide strategic leadership of risk, resilience, compliance and organisational integrity across the BBC Group. Acting as a trusted adviser to the Board and Executive Committee, you will help the organisation understand its risk exposure, anticipate emerging threats and opportunities, balance risk and reward, and make informed strategic choices. You will strengthen accountability and risk management, enabling the successful delivery of the BBC's strategic objectives while protecting its people, operations and reputation.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

This role has significant strategic and reputational influence across the BBC Group, shaping how risk, resilience, compliance and organisational integrity support performance, decision-making and accountability.

As a trusted adviser to Executive and Non-Executive leaders, you will provide independent insight, challenge and assurance, helping shape strategic choices and giving the Board confidence that the BBC's principal risks and opportunities are understood and actively managed.

You will also play a key role in promoting a culture of accountability, integrity and responsible conduct across the BBC Group, ensuring concerns are raised, investigated and addressed appropriately, and that learning is embedded across the organisation.

Leading a pan-BBC function of more than 50 professionals, you will oversee risk, compliance, resilience, investigations, safety, safeguarding and security, ensuring the organisation is prepared to anticipate, respond to and learn from risk while delivering its strategic objectives.

• Leading a multi-disciplinary team across Corporate Risk Management, Compliance, Business Continuity and Resilience, Corporate Investigations, Whistleblowing, Safety, Safeguarding and Security, championing culture, conduct and organisational integrity.
• Setting and championing the organisation's risk, resilience and compliance strategy, strengthening culture, governance and frameworks while enabling effective, trusted business partnering and informed strategic-decisions
• Maintaining effective governance arrangements, including risk appetite, escalation frameworks and management reporting processes, ensuring risk appetite informs Executive-decision making and supports intelligent risk-taking.
• Ensuring risk and resilience considerations inform strategic planning, major investment decisions, transformation programmes, partnerships and organisational change initiatives with emerging threats and opportunities identified, understood and addressed.
• Designing and overseeing corporate risk, resilience and compliance frameworks, ensuring effective governance, assurance and reporting across the BBC.
• Overseeing the assessment and assurance of material risk and controls pan-BBC, supporting Board attestations and partnering with Internal Audit regarding control effectiveness.
• Providing independent assurance to the Board, Audit & Risk Committee and BBC Executive on the adequacy, effectiveness and maturity of the BBC Group's risk management and control framework, giving the Board confidence that the BBC's overall risk exposure is understood and effectively managed.
• Overseeing the BBC's non-editorial compliance, investigations and whistleblowing frameworks, acting as a senior sponsor of Call it Out and ensuring the independent and proportionate handling of sensitive matters.
• Leading the BBC's organisational resilience, business continuity and crisis management frameworks, including testing, exercising, preparedness and lessons learned, and providing strategic leadership and direction during major incidents and organisational crises.

ARE YOU THE RIGHT CANDIDATE?

You will be an established leader, with the credibility and judgement to operate effectively at Board and Executive level. You will combine deep professional expertise with the ability to lead strategic priorities, influence decision-making, and build effective relationships in complex and evolving environments.

You will:

• Demonstrate experience advising Boards, Committees and Executive teams in PLCs or large public sector organisations, operating within a mature Three Lines governance framework and partnering with Internal Audit and external assurance providers.
• Bring the ability to provide clear, evidence-based advice and challenge on risk, governance and controls matters.
• Demonstrate agility and flexibility in uncertainty, with the ability to lead effectively across a range of strategic priorities.
• Demonstrate significant experience developing and embedding enterprise risk, organisational resilience, business continuity and crisis management frameworks.
• Demonstrate experience leading risk, compliance or assurance functions, building effective relationships and high-performing teams within a complex organisation.
• Demonstrate experience overseeing material risks, controls and assurance activities across organisational boundaries, including business continuity and crisis management arrangements.
• Hold professional accreditation in risk management, governance, compliance, resilience, audit, safety, security, investigations or a related discipline.
• Show deep expertise in risk, compliance and assurance providing professional leadership and credibility at Executive and Board levels.
• Bring well-established external networks and credibility with fellow senior leaders/professionals in industry, professional services and/or regulatory bodies.
• Demonstrate knowledge of organisation resilience, business continuity, crisis management and incident response within complex organisations.
• Demonstrate knowledge of corporate investigations, whistleblowing and Speak Up frameworks, including the governance of high risk or sensitive investigations.
• Understand financial controls, assurance, organisational sustainability, ethical governance, organisational integrity and the factors that shape organisational culture.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: [e-mail]

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.