Working in a team with our Assistant Director - Enterprise and Operational Risk, the Head of Risk Policy and Frameworks will play a critical role in developing, maintaining and continuously improving enterprise risk management framework, policies and guidance. The role leads risk reporting, providing leaders with risk insights to make informed, balanced decisions.

You will also work closely with leaders to support the review of principal risks, offering critical insight, thoughtful challenge and encouraging robust discussion. You will be joining our talented, highly skilled and experienced team of risk professionals, who are committed to making positive change to enable a mature risk culture, where risks are understood and managed to support balanced risk-taking.

Our Assistant Director - Enterprise and Operational Risk is committed to delivering an exceptional service to colleagues and stakeholders, taking an open and transparent approach to risk requests and resolving challenging requests informally where possible. Rebekah believes in working collaboratively and values diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team.

This is a rare chance to shape the approach to managing risk in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional risk team you will ensure efficient, consistent, robust and forward looking approach to managing risk across the whole organisation.

The role will support the design and delivery of enterprise-wide risk management framework, embedding of risk appetite and driving consistency in the application of risk framework, guidance and tooling. There are some exciting projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to improving the team's service offer.

A bit about you…

You'll be an experienced risk professional with a deep expertise in developing and embedding enterprise-wide risk frameworks, policies and guidance. You'll bring strong technical knowledge, with expertise in translating complex risk concepts into accessible presentations and a proven track record in drafting high quality risk reports with clarity and impact. You will be proficient in collaborating across a wide group of internal stakeholders, building relationships to succeed in your role and gently challenging when necessary.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a Risk team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced risk professional you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Who are we?

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer...

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.

Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go.

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK at this stage.

Your application needs to be in your own words, reflect your personal understanding and experience, and must not have been generated by AI tools such as ChatGPT.