Risk Lead
Risk Lead
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21-05-2025
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Job Description
Job Title: Risk Lead
Work Location: Hybrid 2 days in office at Cambridge
Role Description:
- Establish an Exam Technology Risk Management process that integrates nonproject risk with Corporate Risk reporting ensuring compliance and positioning Exam Technology as the preferred IT service supplier to Product Groups.
- Collaborate with senior leads across CUP&A technology to promote best practices with practical implementation.
- Work closely with Solution Area leadership teams to proactively manage all categories of IT Risk related to highstakes assessment products.
- Support the organizations regulatory position by ensuring compliance with the Ofqual C1 condition and risk management frameworks.
- Act as the Risk Champion within Exam Technology working with the Technical Responsible Officer (TRO) Head of Exam Assurance and leadership teams to identify manage and remediate IT risks.
- Although focused on highstakes exam products the risk management outputs may be extended to mid and lowstakes assessment products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop implement and manage Exam Technologys Risk Management framework strategies and procedures.
- Design develop and manage realtime risk strategies.
- Identify risk across highstakes assessment products and services.
- Provide preventive instructions identify controls and propose solutions for violations.
- Investigate and review actual or potential failures in businesscritical controls and processes.
- Engage with thirdparty investigations (e.g. ISO 9001) and auditors to meet external requirements.
- Lead risk assessment campaigns assurance reviews and produce risk assessment reports.
- Assist in designing and launching new highstakes products from a risk perspective.
- Lead and maintain risk evaluation processes supporting Group Wide Risk reporting.
Key Skills / Knowledge / Experience:
Essential Knowledge:
- Familiarity with risk management frameworks: ISO 31000 NIST COSO
- Knowledge of integrated risk and quality management systems
- Understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals including threat modelling and incident response
- Knowledge of incident management processes
- Awareness of regulatory and audit requirements for IT risk and controls (e.g. GDPR)
- Understanding of IT infrastructure: networks servers databases cloud services
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Knowledge of risk and quality management systems
- Ability to quickly assimilate and analyze complex technical information
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal negotiation and influencing skills
- Confident presenting to senior audiences
- Tact and diplomacy
- Ability to work under pressure
- Excellent judgment and strategic decisionmaking
- Experience in technology environments
- Background in the assessment sector
- Experience working with senior management exercising autonomous judgment
- Strong influencing skills
Person Specification:
- Negotiating skills
- Clientfacing experience
- Excellent communication
- Leadership experience
Employment Type
Full Time
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