Risk and Assurance Lead

Risk and Assurance Lead

Permanent, Full time: 35 hours per week

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 + Benefits

Home based in England, Scotland or Wales with occasional national travel

About the role

We’re looking for a Risk and Assurance Lead to join the team. Reporting to the Regulatory Compliance and Incident Manager, this role is responsible for delivering independent, evidence based risk and assurance activity across the organisation. The aim is to support strong governance, regulatory compliance and organisational resilience.

In this role you will provide objective assurance over how risks are identified, managed and monitored across EAL. You will also review compliance and contingency arrangements and produce clear reporting that helps senior colleagues understand where risks sit and what action may be needed. Your work will help ensure the organisation is well prepared, well governed and able to make informed decisions.

What you’ll be doing

You will carry out independent compliance audits and thematic assurance reviews to assess how effective existing controls are and whether regulatory requirements are being met. Alongside this, you will maintain oversight of EAL’s strategic, operational and project risks, helping teams to identify, assess and review risks in a consistent way. You will also facilitate risk discussions with departments, offering independent challenge while remaining separate from operational decision making.

A key part of the role involves producing clear and balanced assurance reports that set out findings, conclusions and practical recommendations. You will track management actions that arise from assurance work and escalate issues where necessary. The role also includes supporting the maintenance and testing of business continuity plans, keeping accurate records and audit trails, and preparing risk and assurance reports for senior leaders and governance forums.

You will lead and support a small team, providing guidance, coaching and direction so that work is delivered to a high standard. This includes encouraging a positive and collaborative team culture and ensuring the team stays up to date with good practice in risk, assurance and resilience.

What we’re looking for

First and foremost it is essential to have recent experience within the AO/EPAO sector. We are looking for someone with experience in a similar role who has led teams to deliver high quality work and meet targets. You will be comfortable presenting information to senior colleagues and able to communicate clearly.

Experience delivering or supporting risk management, assurance, audit, or compliance activity is key, including the review of evidence and preparation of clear findings and reports. You’ll be able to assess risks, controls, and evidence objectively, maintaining professional independence and providing constructive challenge where appropriate. Additionally you’ll have an understanding of business continuity, contingency planning, and organisational resilience, with the ability to review and provide assurance on readiness arrangements.

We’re also looking for experience leading or participating in testing activity (such as assurance reviews, audits, scenario exercises, or control testing) and documenting outcomes and lessons learned. Finally, you’ll have the ability to contribute to the development or delivery of guidance, briefings, or training to embed consistent risk, assurance, and resilience practices.

Other skills which would be desirable however not needed to apply for the role

It would be helpful if you hold, or are working towards, a recognised professional qualification in risk, audit, assurance, compliance or resilience such as IRM, IIA, ISO Lead Auditor or BCI. Knowledge of recognised standards or good practice guidance, for example ISO 31000 or ISO 22301, would also be beneficial.

Experience working with external audits, inspections or regulatory reviews would be an advantage, as would experience working across several departments and providing independent insight beyond a single operational area. The ability to use data, metrics or dashboards to support assurance conclusions and reporting would also be useful. A curious mindset and an interest in improving processes and ways of working over time would work well in this role.

Working for EAL/Enginuity Group

We offer a supportive work environment and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equity, diversity and inclusion are integral to everything we do, and we are committed to being an inclusive workplace where all colleagues feel valued and able to be themselves. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences.

Many of our team work flexibly, and we would be happy to discuss how flexible working could work for you and the business. If you are shortlisted for interview, please let us know so we can explore this together.

We also welcome discussions about any reasonable adjustments that may support you throughout the recruitment process.

Remote/home based working at Enginuity

Your working hours will be 35 per week, working 9am until 5pm with a 1 hour lunch.

As a home-based employee you will fulfil your job responsibilities from home. Interactions with work and colleagues will be from a virtual environment. Depending on your role you will be required to either have some occasional travel or UK national travel. This travel will be required to allow you to fulfil different parts of your role and to meet colleagues on a quarterly basis. Other meetings that might require you to travel are events such as all colleague away days, training, and project work. Please review the advert to gain this insight to how much travel is expected. Also, ask at interview stage to confirm the frequency of travel and distance.

The company will provide you with the IT equipment required to carry out your role but it is a requirement that you provide all the necessary facilities for working from home; including broadband, home office, desk and chair.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive externally benchmarked salaries

• A defined contribution pension (4.5% employer/employee contribution).

• 25 days paid holiday (increasing after 1 years’ service to 26 days and 2 years to 27 days), plus bank holidays.

• 3 additional paid days for company shutdown over Christmas and New Year

• A holiday buy scheme - option to buy up 5 days extra days holiday per year

• Life assurance of 2x your salary

• A Healthcare Cash Plan so you can claim back the costs of everyday health care such as dental, optical and physiotherapy. Plus, a virtual 24 hour GP service.

• Paid membership of a Professional Body to support your continuous development.

• An Employee Assistance Programme offering free confidential advice and support

• Wellbeing programmes, access to a free wellbeing website and wellbeing app

• Paid time off to volunteer in your local community or to support wider charitable causes

• A comprehensive discounts and benefits scheme, with discounts at many high street and online retailers

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependant leave

• Access to training and development opportunities

About Us

The Enginuity Group exists to find new ways to close skills gaps in UK engineering and manufacturing in order to create a more productive sector at the forefront of designing, making and maintaining the solutions to society’s greatest challenges. Enginuity is a charity that has created a ‘common language’ for engineering and manufacturing occupation and skills data, to help employers have the right skills at the right time to adapt faster to change.

We use this unique approach to sector data, alongside our deep understanding of the skills needs of UK engineering and manufacturing businesses, to:

• support engineering and manufacturing employers in discovering new sources of skills;

• provide insights and recommendations on the skills that are increasingly in demand so businesses, sectors and government can plan ahead;

• and alongside EAL, the Enginuity Group's specialist Awarding Organisation, End Point Assessment Organisation and skills partner for industry, connect organisations to ensure technical education is fit for purpose and keeps pace with changing industry needs, new technologies and the net-zero transition.

Further Information

If you have any questions, a request for further information, or would like to request this information in an alternative format, our Recruitment Team will be happy to help. Email us at recruitment@enginuity.org.

As part of our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, you’ll receive our Equal Opportunities Survey. We’d greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete it - it helps us monitor and improve our recruitment practices.

We’re unable support UK relocation or to sponsor a visa for this role.

Depending on the volume of applications, the closing date for this position may be extended or brought forward.

• Department
• Governance, Assurance and CI
• Locations
• UK
• Remote status
• Fully Remote