Risk and Compliance Officer Remote
Job description
Join Police Digital Service as a Risk and Compliance Officer.
The Risk and Compliance Officer will play a key role in supporting the Compliance and Risk Manager in the ongoing development of proportionate corporate and operational risk management, ensuring that effective controls are in place and actions are completed in a timely manner. The post holder will work with the business to drive improvement through effective communication and independent challenge.
About Police Digital Service
To protect people from harm in our rapidly changing world, police services must not only keep up with technology and business changes but develop capabilities and ways of working that will enable them to adapt to and deal with the complexity of modern criminality.
Police Digital Service strives to be the go-to partner for technology developments and programmes across UK policing. Our team provides technical advice and delivers services to help policing and law enforcement organisations across the UK prioritise and focus on technology efforts.
Our vision is to support UK policing to keep people safe, get more from technology investments and make better use of public money, and we’re always on the lookout for great talent to help us achieve this.
Our Values are:
- We value People
- We do the right thing
- We are innovative
- We are one Team
- We are proud and passionate
Why Join us?
- Balance is important and we want you to take time off to recharge – we offer 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service. Holiday Purchase also available
- Flexible working hours - We trust you to do your job and we appreciate that life doesn’t always fit around a 9 to 5 workday. We operate core hours of 10 to 4, Monday to Friday (37hr week)
- We care about your well-being – we have an EAP that offers not just welfare benefits but also retail discounts
- Plan for the future – we offer an excellent pension scheme and life assurance cover
- Put your mind at rest regarding your health – offering remote GP, mental health and physiotherapy appointments via video consultation
- Family - Enhanced maternity and paternity pay along with a flexible return to work
- Community - one paid day off per year for volunteering
You can find out more here:
Benefits – Police Digital Service (pds.police.uk)
Key Responsibilities
- Support teams in the creation and management of operational risk registers. Including appropriate controls, mitigations and risk treatment plans, ensuring they are up to date, relevant, meaningful to the business and aligned to internal frameworks and standards meaningful to the business.
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Support the Risk and Compliance Manager in obtaining updates and changes to the Corporate risk register.
Responsible for the monitoring and update of internal audit actions and ensure evidence is available to the organisations third party Internal Auditors. - Support with the creation of appropriate and timely risk and compliance reports to Senior Leadership, Audit and Risk Committee and the PDS Board.
- Undertake the process of ensuring early identification of upcoming regulatory change (Horizon Scanning) and work with the Risk and Compliance Manager to communicate this to the business in a clear and consistent manner.
- Support in the development and completion of a programme of risk based themed reviews of Policy, Process and Guidance to provide assurance of control effectiveness and/or identify gaps.
- Provide support to colleagues to build risk awareness within the organisation.
What you need to succeed in the role
- Demonstrable understanding of the principles of risk management including an ability to understand and manage risk and any associated processes, treatments and mitigations.
- Strong organisational and planning skills, with excellent attention to detail.
- Strong engagement focus and proactive style, that motivates, builds trust and inspires colleagues to engage
- Ability to work on own initiative and develop proactive solutions to business problems and prioritise tasks to meet deadlines.
Diversity, equity and inclusion
We are committed to equal opportunity for all and will not discriminate on any grounds. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible span of experience. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates and people with disabilities.
Working Arrangements
This is a remote role.
