Risk Business Partner

Help shape better decisions and strengthen risk management across HM Land Registry.

Are you an experienced risk professional who enjoys working with senior leaders, providing constructive challenge and turning complex information into clear, actionable insight?

We're looking for a Risk Business Partner to join our Second Line Risk & Resilience team. You'll play an influential role in helping HM Land Registry understand and manage its most significant risks, supporting informed decision-making and the delivery of our strategic objectives.

Working closely with Directors and senior leadership teams, you'll provide independent advice, challenge existing thinking and help colleagues understand the balance between risk and opportunity.

This is an opportunity to influence decisions across a complex national organisation, strengthen its risk culture and help ensure that risk management is a valuable part of decision-making rather than simply a compliance exercise.

This is an influential role at the heart of HMLR's risk management framework.

As a Risk Business Partner, you'll be a trusted adviser to designated business areas, building strong relationships with senior leaders and supporting them to identify, assess and manage risks effectively.

You'll help leaders understand their risk exposure, apply HM Land Registry's risk appetite and evaluate the effectiveness of controls and mitigating actions. You'll provide independent, evidence-based challenge, helping ensure that significant risks receive appropriate management attention and are escalated when necessary.

A key part of your role will be turning information into insight. You'll bring together risk assessments, performance information, Key Risk Indicators and assurance findings to identify emerging threats, changing risk exposures and potential weaknesses in controls.

Your work will contribute to risk reporting, deep dives and discussions at senior governance forums, including Executive and Board-level committees, helping inform important organisational decisions.

You'll also champion a positive risk culture, coaching colleagues, sharing good practice and working collaboratively across HM Land Registry and the wider Government Risk Profession to improve our approach to risk management.

This is a role where your professional judgement, analytical skills and ability to influence others will make a meaningful contribution to the organisation.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

To apply, you will need to enter your qualifications and career history into the CV section of the online application form and complete a Personal Statement by 11:55pm on Friday 16th October

The Personal Statement section (in up to 500 words) should be used to outline your skills and experience for the role and provide details of how you meet the following essential Experience criteria:

• Strong practical knowledge and experience of risk management, with the ability to apply risk management principles effectively and proportionately within a complex organisation.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date.

In the event of high volume of applications, we will sift on the technical criteria, Hold a qualification in Risk Management (IRM) or equivalent experience in a risk management role.

If successful at Sift stage, the final stage will consist of a blended interview in which we will ask you to prepare a presentation, candidates will be informed of the subject of the presentation prior.

The blended interview will test the Essential experience and Behaviours listed in the Person Specification

Candidates may refer to notes within their interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.

You must ensure that any evidence submitted as part of your application, including your CV, personal statement, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application.

Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 11:55pm on the advertised date.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.

If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.