Risk Manager

For jobs located in Wales, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the government’s largest public service departments with a sizeable annual budget, serving over 20 million citizens.

The estate spans 1.4 million square metres across 800+ sites and supports around 78,000 colleagues.

Our vision includes DWP colleagues, supply chain, partners and, most fundamentally, the customers the Department exists to serve. They are the reason for our existence.

We are responsible for the day-to-day operation of our vast Estate by managing a private sector supply chain that delivers essential services such as Security Guarding, Maintenance, Property and Leasehold Management, Construction, Cleaning and Facilities Management.

DWP Estates is not just about maintaining buildings - it’s about transformation. Our strategic goals include:

• Transitioning to a smaller, more affordable, and adaptable estate to meet future needs
• Investing in infrastructure through planned replacement works
• Embedding sustainability in line with Government Greening Commitments (GGCs)
• Delivering cost-effective services while maintaining high standards
• Creating a professional, best-in-class working culture across the Government Property profession

Our Estates strategy ambitions have been refreshed to take us through to 2030:

• OPTIMISE: Continue to transition to a more affordable and adaptable DWP estate that creates productive environments
• INVEST: Investment in an improved environment that better meets the needs of customers and colleagues and minimises service disruption
• SUPPORT the drive for sustainability throughout DWP
• DELIVER: Expertly deliver improving, cost-effective services for DWP
• THRIVE: Continue to develop a working culture for DWP Estates that is best in class across government

There is no better time to join the award winning DWP Estates team.

This role supports the Estates Governance and Risk Lead in the development and approval of the DWP Estates Directorate risk requirement, attending regular meetings at various regional office locations with key stakeholders, building and maintaining a framework to ensure work to assess and identify the potential risks that may hinder the reputation, safety, security and financial prosperity of the DWP Estates function.

It will support colleagues across the Design, Compliance and Sustainability Function, as well as the wider DWP Estates function in driving the cultural transformation we aspire to whilst preserving the department’s integrity by making sure it stays on a lawful and ethical course.

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This role sits within the following:

• Job Family – Strategic Asset Management
• Core Role – Estates Strategy
• Level – Practitioner

The Estates team is based across the corporate hub network. Regular travel to other corporate hubs to connect with colleagues and participate in workshops, meetings and events is a feature of the role.

• Develop, implement, maintain and review systems and services to ensure delivery of a professional risk management approach across estates, relating to business as usual key risk areas (including reputational; financial; security and operational)
• Provide risk assurance for risks being managed by the Estates supply chain and by Estates projects and programme PMO teams.
• Monitor and maintain the estates risk system (built in SharePoint) in order to manage risk events including progress on open mitigations; reviewing closed risks; ensuring risk assessments have been updated; and continuous testing of control and mitigation plans – including the risk escalation processes.
• Provide specialist oversight and challenge to the business at various levels to ensure that risk is being managed proactively and within the stated risk category appetite and tolerance.
• To act as subject matter expert and advisor to senior leaders across the business on matters relating to all aspects of internal and external risk – thereby promoting a culture across DWP Estates where risks are assessed and mitigated.
• Encourage joined up teamwork within own team and across the Estates supply…