Risk Manager (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 6 months (with possibility of extension)

Contracting Authority: Network Rail

Location: Hybrid Working (up to 3 days per week office based - York)

Network Rail is at the heart of revitalising Britain’s railway. From Crossrail – Europe’s largest civil engineering project – to investment in world-class stations and major programmes of electrification, we're involved in some of the most ambitious and diverse ventures that this country has ever seen. We at Network Rail are dedicated to becoming one of Britain's best employers and believe this starts with placing the candidate at the heart of everything we do!

As a Risk Manager your main key responsibilities would be:

• To develop and deliver solutions for a wide range of projects including externally funded, high value, politically sensitive and multi-disciplinary projects (Project Complexity Assessment 1, 2, 3 & 4)
• To provide direction and guidance in the concept of project-based risk and value management (R&VM), maintaining or monitoring their appropriate and effective application to all stages of the project lifecycle as aligned to ACE principles to establish and maintain compliance with standards and good risk management practice
• To actively promote and support R&VM culture, maturity, competency and embedment of Enterprise Risk Management ERM in Capital Delivery Eastern (CDE)
• To establish with Project teams their R&VM needs consistent with R&V standards and CDE guidance. Direct &/or deliver specialist R&VM support as dictated by the R&VM maturity of the project community
• Producing quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses to establish project contingency/anticipated final costs and milestones and or confidence of project affordability and deliverability
• Producing possession QSRA analyses to establish confidence of right time hand back of possessions and deliverability of desired types/volumes of work within possession access
• Implementing Level 1 and 2 assurance activities as specified by the Principal R&V Manager to support project delivery via such things as ongoing assurance of R&V products, quarterly detailed project assurance reviews and bimonthly review of registers and their metrics

Essential:

• Demonstrable competence in all aspects of project and business risk management facilitation
• Demonstrable ability to build complicated cost, schedule, and business risk models in a number of applications
• Recognised either technically or professionally as an R&V expert
• Demonstrable commercial focus and financially astute understanding of the implications of different contract types on risk position
• Recognised professional qualification in Risk Management e.g., Management of Risk (MoR), IRM Certificate/Diploma etc
• Network rail or rail background

Desirable

• Demonstrable knowledge of the PACE Framework.
• Membership of the Institute of Risk Management
• Membership of the Association for Project Management Risk Practitioner
• Membership of the Institute of Value Management.

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Network Rail are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. They welcome applications from everyone

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following “this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different”.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.