Associate Director – Risk – Defence

Overview

In this role you will lead risk management across major defence-led programmes, shaping how threats and opportunities are identified, assessed, and acted upon to protect national capability. You will collaborate with a regional defence team on high-profile projects, driving risk planning, reporting, and response delivery. Your work will influence investment decisions and contingency planning while coordinating with contractors and client teams. This is a mission-driven opportunity to apply advanced risk methods in a complex, multi-project environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive packages with a range of benefits
• Meaningful, high impact work
• Lifelong learning and development
• Supportive, people-focused culture
• Recognition for your contribution
• Diversity and inclusion

Responsibilities

• Implement and support an integrated risk management framework across a major programme or project
• Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities and issues within the sub-programme
• Maintain visibility of risk trigger points to support risk cost profiling and budget drawdown
• Use risk data to inform investment planning or business case development
• Identify and record measurable management responses and assess post-mitigation positions
• Monitor overall risk exposure against remaining contingency or budget
• Progress management responses to deliver target positions
• Collaborate with contractors to assess risks and views affecting clients
• Produce timely risk reports to communicate threat and opportunity status
• Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform contingency levels
• Demonstrate competence with PRA, @risk, Safran or similar; familiarity with ARM, Predict, Risk Hive, Tableau and Power BI
• Provide excellent oral and written communication and continuously seek more effective ways of working

Key requirements

• Proven risk delivery experience on major infrastructure projects/programmes
• APM/IRM/MoR risk certification
• UK MoD security clearance (or ability to obtain)
• British passport

• Excellent written and oral communication
• Proactive problem solving
• Stakeholder engagement and collaboration
• PRA
• @risk
• Safran

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