Risk and Assurance Officer

Risk and Assurance Officer

Salary: £35,792 pa

Location: Manchester - Agile

Fixed Term Contract : 35 hours per week

Closing date: TBC

Interviews: 11 November

Support our communities. See the difference you can make in our city.

At One Manchester we are passionate about providing good quality homes, great services and real opportunities for customers and communities. We are more than just a landlord. We invest in new and existing homes, provide money advice and wellbeing, employment and training support and build strong partnerships to support inclusive growth.

We have an exciting position available for Risk and Assurance Officer to join us!

You will support the Risk and Assurance Manager in managing One Manchester's risk management programme, supporting, and facilitating a risk-based internal audit programme and providing support to the Team with key assurance activities.

The role will work closely with Risk Owners to assist with the completion of updates to ELT, Board and Audit & Risk Committee. It involves working with the Risk and Assurance Manager to support and update the risks, including their effectiveness and compliance with One Manchester's systems and assurance framework to provide independent/objective assurance to the LEADERSHIP TEAM, ELT and the Board.

This role will also support the wider activities of the Risk & Assurance Team with the completion of subject access requests (SARs) in line with the requirements stipulated under GDPR and the Data Protection Act; and reviewing and maintaining policy documentation and other key assurance systems and registers.

What we're looking for:

• Strong knowledge and experience of risk management processes, or alternatively risk recording/reporting.
• Knowledge and understanding of organisational risk management processes.
• Knowledge and understanding of audit planning, fieldwork, system evaluation, action monitoring, and evidence collation in accordance with agreed standards and related policies and procedures.
• Strong experience of business assurance functions including document management and register maintenance.
• Awareness of GDPR and data protection legislation in particular Subject Access Requests and Social Tenants Access to Information Request STAIRs) scheme.
• Ability to accurately record the right data and information at the right time within the right systems.
• A competent user of IT who has good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages.

Why take up the challenge with One Manchester? This really is a great place to work. We've bags of potential and have huge opportunities waiting to be unlocked. Supportive and flexible, we're rightly proud of our work and excited about the future. So, challenge yourself to be creative and ambitious and see the difference you can make in our great city.

If this sounds like you then apply today, we'd love to hear from you!

We own and manage over 12,000 homes in central, south and east Manchester. We have one purpose: to provide good quality homes, great services, and real opportunities for our customers and communities. Our role as a trusted Registered Provider of Social Housing goes well beyond putting people in safe and secure homes. That's not to say it's not one our key priorities, it's simply one of the many things we do to help our customers live happy and fulfilled lives. We put people at the heart of everything we do. We're constantly evolving as a business to ensure we're supporting our customers and communities. We focus on improving our communities by offering a range of services, including employment opportunities, building new developments, and ensuring our customers have safe homes to live in.

In accordance with the aims of our Equality and Diversity strategy and organisational commitment to address the employment of underrepresented groups, One Manchester is operating 'the Rooney Rule'. This means that we aim to interview at least one ethnically diverse candidate for all roles. We will also interview at least one female candidate for all our roles within our trades and facilities teams where we experience an under representation.

One Manchester strives for equality, diversity and inclusion in all that we do. We positively encourage applications for employment from eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

We are transitioning to a culture where agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also try to support and promote a culture of flexible working where possible and practical. If you are interested in a role but require flexibility or part time hours please give us a call and we can let you know if this can be considered for a particular role.