Risk Officer

**Job no**: 516487

**Work type**: full time

**Location**: Sydney, NSW

**Categories**: Risk & Safety
- **Employment Type: Full time (35 hours per week)**:

- **Duration: Continuing**:

- **Remuneration: $112,154 - $126,366 (depending on experience) + 17% super + leave loading**:

- **Location: Kensington, NSW (Hybrid Working)**

The Risk Officer - Faculties is a vital resource to the Risk Management Unit and the University. This role plays an important part in the transformation of risk across the university from supporting the risk profiling program, embedding risk management into business processes, advising, and educating key stakeholders on risk management.

The role is integral to building capability in and supporting risk champions in Faculties as well as supporting the development and strengthening of the risk culture across UNSW.

Their work will include:

- Developing, and conducting risk training sessions.
- Working with different levels of stakeholders to build their capability to identify, evaluate and manage risk and opportunity succinctly and accurately.
- Building practical risk guidance materials and manage the risk management feedback and question channel.
- Developing and utilising data, in conjunction with the UNSW Data team to build risk insights to improve the overall profile of the University and aid scenario planning.
- Supporting the Director, Risk in the development and evolution of the risk appetite statements.

As part of supporting the building of risk capability and execute effective risk governance across the University, this role will be integral to risk activities around complex projects (strategic and business sponsored and research/ collaborations), risk profiling for faculties, schools, and controlled entities. The output of these will feed into the overall risk governance framework to inform the University enterprise level risks.

The role reports to the Director, Risk and has no direct reports.

**Responsibilities**
- Support, challenge and ensure top 10 risk assessments for Faculties, Schools and Controlled Entities (as appropriate) are defined, quality checked, analysed and monitored, with feedback provided to Faculty staff.
- Coach and train the faculty staff in the steps required to complete the risk profiling and assessment exercise.
- Support and challenge Faculties to identify and execute risk mitigation actions and clarify how these will impact the risk exposure.
- Promote constructive risk discussions to move towards a value adding exercise and embedding risk management into core business processes.
- Aggregate the data from school level top 10 risk assessments to challenge, inform and support the faculty level top 10 risk assessment.
- Aggregate the data from all the faculty level risk assessments to provide a university level top 10 faculty risks view to inform the top strategic and operational risks of the university.
- Work with the Data team and other key stakeholders to identify and establish data links/reporting to the Risk Management function to enable the Unit to analyse and evaluate UNSW positions to assess/identify existing and emerging risks
- Establish and develop external mechanisms to get market and external insights to help inform UNSW’s risk profile, planning process and identify any emerging risks
- Work with the Director, Risk to agree an Annual Risk Management Plan with the Faculties for areas of focus as the risk management framework matures.

**Skills and Experience**
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline and experience in risk management. This includes demonstrated experience in implementing elements of risk management frameworks.
- Excellent level of core risk management skills and ability to articulate to stakeholders in a clear and easy to understand way.
- High level demonstrated industry knowledge in risk management and success in supporting the delivery of strategies, programs, and initiatives, with the demonstrated ability to effectively prioritise and work on multiple or conflicting deadlines successfully.
- Strong track record in managing a range of activities/risk projects, assessing, and implementing operational and strategic risks to realise practical value, shifting from a form filling exercise to a constructive discussion leading to real management actions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to actively listen to key stakeholders to support a continuous improvement culture across Risk Management activities across the university.
- Experience and demonstrated success in working with and engaging with all levels of internal and external stakeholders to effectively collaborate on initiatives.
- Ability to work as part of a team, engaging with colleagues and assisting as required to support activities being delivered by the Risk Management unit.
- Demonstrated understanding of the risk context and risk culture of the higher education sector.
- An understanding of and commitment to UNS