Strategic Risk Leader, Manchester Digital Campus

Government Recruitment Service; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Nottingham is seeking a Risk Manager for the Manchester Digital Campus project. You will lead the risk, issue and opportunity management across the MDC programme, coordinating with client teams, partners and senior stakeholders to ensure robust governance and value delivery.

The role requires strong risk analytics, horizon scanning and the ability to translate uncertainty into actionable plans within complex public-sector programmes.

Responsibilities

• Issue management strategy, ensuring all parts of the enterprise actively engage to collectively manage the uncertainty.
• Develop a regular cadence of risk, opportunity and issue reviews with each Line of Development, client side support and external partners, ensuring the central risk, opportunities and issue register is robust and that the programme cost, time and benefit estimates appropriately factor in uncertainty.
• Conduct adhoc deep dives into specific risks, opportunities or issues as necessary developing, with the wider team, effective strategies to best manage the concern and/or accept the uncertainty.
• Collect and share the data, ensuring learning from MDC supports wider GPA, Cabinet Office and NISTA delivery and using the wider data sources, and AI tools available to best understand the risks MDC faces.
• Actively scan the horizon for opportunity, change and risk and ensure these are reflected in programme activity and briefed at the appropriate Governance Boards.
• Work closely with the SRO, MDC Programme Directors and HMT to ensure risks, issues and opportunities are subject to appropriate assurance, scrutiny and quantification within the Full Business Case and wider whole Programme delivery.

Job description

Government Recruitment Service in Nottingham is seeking a Risk Manager for the Manchester Digital Campus project. You will lead the risk, issue and opportunity management across the MDC programme, coordinating with client teams, partners and senior stakeholders to ensure robust governance and value delivery.

The role requires strong risk analytics, horizon scanning and the ability to translate uncertainty into actionable plans within complex public-sector programmes.