Head of Strategic Risk

  • Employer: Ofqual
  • Location: Coventry, UK
  • Salary: Competitive salary

What we do touches the lives of all people. We’re Ofqual, the strategic, risk-based regulator for qualifications and assessments.

Job description:

Qualifications need to be of the right quality, time after time, and they need to be of real, enduring value to those taking them and those using them. We are focusing our energies on the providers of qualifications and leading the standards debate. We have a big job to do in a dynamic and changing sector and we are seeking an experienced individual to lead a new team to ensure we manage risk on a system wide basis.

Using a variety of techniques your team will develop and manage a new, systemic risk framework and create a holistic view of the qualifications market. We have a lot to achieve in this exciting and challenging time of change. Reporting to the Director of Risk and Markets, you will join Ofqual’s extended senior management team in driving the performance of the organisation.

As well as your technical background in managing strategic risks and analysing business systems in a fast-changing market, it is important that you are a strong senior team leader and have a track record of success in your respective field. If you meet these requirements and are committed to the success of a system that is of national importance, we’d love to hear from you.

For more information please visit www.futureofqual.co.uk. For an informal conversation please call our advising consultants at Veredus, Paul Aristides 020 7932 4240 or Ed Pritchard 020 7932 4279.

Closing date: Monday 3 December 2012.

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