SRM - Risk Analyst

Justice Digital; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 523,000; Full time

Job description

SRM - Risk Analyst

Location: National*

Closing Date: 08 May 2025

Interviews: from 16 May 2025

Grade: SEO

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: London: £47,657 - £52,040; National: £41,463 - £45,276

Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working, job share or compressed hours.

Contract Type: Permanent

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We're recruiting for a Strategic Risk Management (SRM) - Risk Analyst here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Portfolio & Controls team.

As a risk management practitioner, the role holder is a business partner providing a service at business group level and having day-to-day contact with risk managers and co-ordinators across the organisation. This role supports the business to identify, assess and monitor risk and to implement improvements in risk maturity.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Contribute to the development and implementation of a risk management framework which is aligned to the Orange Book and associated guides.
2. Contribute to and support the development and implementation of frameworks and tools for a consistent risk management approach in line with the Chief Risk Officer's (CRO's) vision.
3. Produce intelligent risk reports, which provide succinct, reliable, timely and persuasive analysis, commentary and insight on the effectiveness of risk control measures.
4. Monitor, Challenge and report on the quality and content of risk reports produced across the Department, using information and data from multiple sources and stakeholders to drive continuous improvement.
5. Maintain good relationships with other governance processes to ensure risk management advice is aligned with organisational objectives and priorities and takes account of wider organisational and external contexts.
6. Provide expert advice to enable the business to conduct the risk management process.
7. Ensuring expert advice and upskilling delivered promotes an improvement in risk management maturity.
8. Building strong risk community relationships, through proactive and targeted engagement with and across the organisation, including Agencies and Arm's Length Bodies.
9. Developing an understanding of organisational principal risks through risk identification and analysis and ensuring risk owners are appropriately supported.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Benefits

1. 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
2. A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
3. Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow.
4. Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates).
5. 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings' birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
6. Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
7. Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
8. Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location).
9. Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
10. 5 days volunteering paid leave.
11. Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

Person Specification

Essential

1. Proactive in gathering, evaluating and analysing information and evidence from a range of sources to support strategic change.
2. A high-level understanding of the Orange Book.
3. Achieved or working towards; OGC Management of Risk Foundation or practitioner, IRM Fundamentals of Risk Management, IRM Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management or IRM Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management qualifications or similar qualification.
4. Familiarity with Agile methodology and appreciation for iterative, continuous improvement.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and statement of suitability (of no more than 750 words) via our applicant website JobTrain, which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above. Candidates who do not submit both a CV and a separate statement of suitability will not be invited to attend an interview.

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

1. Making effective decisions.
2. Communicating and Influencing.
3. Delivering at pace.
4. Seeing the big picture.
5. Changing and Improving.
6. Developing self and others.

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on whether you have achieved or are working towards; OGC Management of Risk Foundation or practitioner, IRM Fundamentals of Risk Management, IRM Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management or IRM Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management qualifications or similar qualification will be conducted before the sift.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact [e-mail].