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Risk & Assurance Officer

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Job Title: Risk & Assurance Officer

Salary:  £37,800 per annum Band F Level 3 - (Homebased)? £39,560 per annum Band F Level 3- (Gilwell based, inclusive of Outer London Weighting)

Location:   Gilwell Park (Hybrid), Chingford, London. 

Contract Type: Fixed term for 24 months

Working Hours: 35 hours per week

This is an exciting opportunity to shape how we support and enable excellent, safe Scouting through stronger assurance and risk practices.

As our new Risk and Assurance Executive, you’ll help lay the foundations of a refreshed assurance function — working alongside colleagues in safeguarding, safety, and governance primarily. You’ll support the delivery of assurance activities aligned to our “Reassuring Scouting” programme of work, and play a key role in embedding a practical, proportionate, and learning-focused approach to risk management.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys shaping a new and developing function, and getting into the thick of it to establish a mature approach to Enterprise Risk Management and Assurance.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the planning, delivery, and reporting of assurance reviews across core areas (i.e., safeguarding, safety, and governance to start with).

Help co-ordinate internal assurance activities and maintain the assurance schedule.

Support the development and testing of an integrated three lines of defence model tailored for Scouting.

Skills and abilities:

Ability to gather and analyse qualitative and quantitative information to draw insights and form clear recommendations.

Skilled in facilitating discussions or workshops that help others reflect, evaluate, or plan.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce accessible and engaging reports.

Comfortable working both independently and as part of a cross-functional team.

Benefits:

We are an award-winning Charity of the Year (Charity Times Awards 2022) with over 400 employees across multiple locations across the country.

28 days holiday and going up to 32 days after 2 years’ service

Flexible working hours

Work in a way that suits you, your role and your department

For more details about the Scouts and our great benefits

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