Associate Director- Risk

Overview

As an Associate Director in PMO Risk, you will lead risk and opportunity activities across water and infrastructure projects, guiding multidisciplinary teams to embed robust risk processes. You’ll work with clients and delivery partners to implement risk frameworks and ensure high-quality risk outputs. The role combines advisory leadership with hands-on risk management and continuous improvement. You’ll join a cross-functional Controls & Performance community focused on delivering better programme outcomes at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working
• work-life balance
• inclusive environment
• opportunity for career development
• collaboration across Controls & Performance community
• global exposure

Responsibilities

• Lead quality delivery of risk and opportunity management across assigned projects and programmes
• Direct risk management teams and workstreams and provide specialist client advisory
• Embed effective risk management within the PMO and align with the wider risk framework
• Manage scope independently and escalate significant risks to governance
• Integrate risk management with programme schedules, cost data and delivery plans
• Design, run and facilitate risk workshops and training to improve risk awareness
• Coordinate reporting of risk information and performance data for decision making
• Run QSRA/QCRA activities and interpret outputs to focus mitigation efforts
• Build and manage client/stakeholder relationships and influence senior stakeholders
• Contribute to bids and identify risk management opportunities for clients

Key requirements

• Extensive infrastructure, engineering, or construction risk management experience in a client-facing environment
• Proven track record delivering major programmes with complex stakeholders and budgets
• Experience leading risk management teams across large projects and programmes
• Strong knowledge of risk management frameworks and development of PMO risk capabilities
• Experience managing risk across the project lifecycle (identification to monitoring)
• Continuous improvement mindset to enhance risk processes and efficiency
• Ability to challenge risk assessments and agree practical mitigations with risk owners
• Experience in risk reporting, risk registers, mitigation plans and governance
• Ability to integrate risk with programme controls and delivery teams
• Proven ability to work in a consultancy environment and manage multiple stakeholders

• Stakeholder management
• Clear communication of complex risk information
• Influencing senior stakeholders
• Risk management principles (ISO31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA)
• Risk tools (ARM, Predict!, Risk Controller, riskHive, Xactium)
• Quantitative Risk Analysis (Monte-Carlo) with Primavera Risk Analysis, @Risk, Safran

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