Lead Risk Management Specialist
The ideal candidate will have high attention to detail and a drive to enhance healthcare outcomes.
We are seeking an experienced Lead Risk Management Specialist to join our team in a complex delivery portfolio.
Main responsibilities include:
* Providing risk/issue advice, review, and challenge to Program Directors and Project Managers to ensure risks and issues are managed in line with project governance and operational risk frameworks.
* Ensuring consistent project risk and governance processes are implemented across programs and projects, and that risks are accurately reported to governance bodies.
* Collaborating with operational and delivery areas to undertake risk profiling and risk identification for programs and projects, and ensuring risks are managed and reported effectively.
* Reviewing project and operational risk/issue registers to validate that risks and issues are appropriately described, rated, and mitigated, and that risks and issues are actively tracked and managed.
* Leading efforts to increase the maturity of risk and issue management practices across the project portfolio, promoting continuous improvement in risk and issue awareness and mitigation strategies.
* Undertaking data and trend analysis and developing timely, accurate, and meaningful reports relating to the overall risk and governance profile.
* Producing monthly delivery risk profile reports to governing bodies, providing a view of the overall risk landscape across the portfolio, supporting stakeholders to understand collective risks, trends, areas of concern, mitigation efforts, and changes in risk status over time.
* Supporting the development and enhancement of risk and issue management and governance frameworks, processes, and other resources.
* Providing support in coordinating, managing, and reporting audit outcomes.
Required experience includes provision of support to large scale, complex IM/ICT programs and projects, specifically in governance, risk, and issue management and reporting.
Essential Skills:
* Advanced Microsoft Office Suite skills.
* Advanced stakeholder management experience.
* Experience in a similar role providing services to a large and complex delivery portfolio.
* Experience working within the Government or Health sectors.
* Knowledge of program and project management governance structures and roles.
* Knowledge of sound risk management processes and practices.
Desirable Qualifications:
* P3 management qualifications, such as Prince2, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Portfolio/Programme/Project Office (P3O).