Senior Enterprise Risk Officer
Job Description
Senior Enterprise Risk Officer
Put your career on the map
Grade: Senior Executive Officer (SEO)
Salary: £46,677 – £54,957
Pension: 28.97% of salary (RoS contribution)
Annual leave: 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Duration: Permanent
Working pattern: 35 hours per week. We are a flexible employer and will consider a variety of working patterns; compressed hours, term time working or part time working on a case-by-case basis, depending on the role and departmental requirements.
Location: Hybrid working model. Contractual base either at Meadowbank House, Edinburgh (EH8 7AU), or St Vincent Plaza, Glasgow (G2 5LD). You will be expected to occasionally visit one of these locations as per the requirements of the role.
Department: Risk and Information Governance
Directorate: Corporate Services
Role Reports to: Head of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Closing date:31 August at 11:59pm
Number of vacancies: One
About Registers of Scotland (RoS)
Registers of Scotland is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. We hold the answer to the question, “Who owns Scotland?” We’re a modern, digital organisation and our success relies on building a diverse team of dedicated, skilled and motivated people.
The role
This is a key role in a small team providing risk management and business continuity support across RoS and is the ideal opportunity for both experienced and aspiring people managers.
The role holder’s responsibilities include operational management of the ERM service, coaching and developing the team and service delivery through engagement with customers across the organisation (e.g. by facilitating risk assessments).
You will set the standard for the service and prioritise supporting your team to meet and exceed that standard. You will be confident in engaging at all levels of the organisation and collaborating with risk practitioners in other teams.
The role holder will play a pivotal part in maintaining and growing a healthy risk culture in which risk management is integral to how RoS conducts its business.
On a typical day you will
- Manage the ERM team and resources to ensure team and individual objectives are achieved.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of ERM as a discipline.
- Demonstrate exemplary customer service by responding to customer needs and maintaining relationships, setting a standard for the team.
- Provide quality assurance for ERM service delivery through effective performance management and commitment to continuous professional development for team members.
- Support Head of ERM in Key Risk management support, including preparation of governance papers and attendance at governance groups including but not limited to the Executive Management Team, Audit and Risk Committee and RoS Board.
- Lead ERM support for change initiatives including projects, maintaining and improving ERM ‘change risk’ services.
- Support risk owners in escalating risks or managing risks that have been delegated.
- Provide support, education and training to staff across RoS to build risk awareness and risk maturity, and a healthy risk culture.
- Contribute to the wider Risk and Information Governance team’s communications and engagement work, incorporating the intranet, events and other engagement activities.
The full role profile can be accessed here.
This job is for you if you want
- Work with purpose: working for the people of Scotland to set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.
- Flexible and hybrid working: depending on the role and team requirements, work when and where it’s best for you and your stakeholders.
- Benefits: enjoy pay progression, pension contributions of up to 28.97%, up to a year’s parental leave, and 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
- Investment in professional development: we invest in all our people so that they have the right skills to be productive and confident in their job.
- Diversity and Inclusion: We are an ‘Investor in People’ and a ‘Disability Confident’ employer. We are inclusive, stronger together, and committed to putting our people first.
- Positive work culture: RoS is an agile, digital organisation using leading-edge technology.Colleagues understand their role in achieving our strategy and have the autonomy to deliver.
To learn more about RoS and what we offer visit our careers pages or watch this short video.
Essential Criteria – Skills and Attributes for Success
Experience/Technical:
We will assess you against the following Experience/Technical skills during the application process:
- Risk management qualification and/or substantial experience of delivering risk management support and services.
Behaviours
At application stage, you will be scored against the bolded behaviours and against all behaviours on the assessment day:
- Making effective decisions
- Leadership
- Communicating and influencing
- Managing a quality service
Please find full behaviour descriptors here.
Stage one – Application Process
To apply, click on ‘Apply now’ and complete the online application form. You will need to submit:
- A CV outlining your career history and how you meet the technical/experience criteria (max 4 pages).
- A Statement of suitability (no more than 1000 words) detailing how you meet the behaviours, being assessed, for the role. Please use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) in your examples.
Please note:
- If we receive a high number of applications, we may carry out an initial sift on the Experience/Technical criteria.
- Your CV and Supporting statement should be submitted as a single MS Word file.
- We reserve the right to invite candidates to participate in a telephone interview prior to being further assessed.
- Applications that are not accompanied by CVs will not be scored and/or statements over 1000 words will not be considered.
- We would strongly recommend that your statement is written in the STAR format(Situation, Task, Action & Result) and suggest preparing your answers using software such as MS Word or Google Docs, and then uploading the file.
- We strongly advise you review our policy on responsible use of A I in the application process. RoS may check answers with an AI detection tool and will contact you for a pre-screening call to verify your responses.
- Applications and appointments are subject to a strict merit-based assessment process, in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles.
Stage two – assessment
If successful at application stage, you will be invited to an in-person interview, in Meadowbank House, Edinburgh, which will include the following:
- Pre-prepared presentation
- Behaviour based interview
Information on Success Profiles
For further information on success profiles, visit our Success Profiles.
Recruitment timeline
- Closing date: 31 August at 11:59pm
- Application sift:1-4 September
- Invites to assessment and presentation topic sent:5 September
- Presentations to be returned:14 September
- Assessment day:wc 15 September
Please note dates are subject to change.
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you progress to interview stage.
Reserve List
In the event that further posts are required, a reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for up to 12 months.
Nationality and immigration status
In general, only nationals from the following countries (and associations of countries) are eligible for employment in the Civil Service: the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the Commonwealth. EU nationals (with settled or pre-settled status), certain EEA nationals, Swiss and Turkish nationals are also eligible for employment. Detailed provisions on determining eligibility on the grounds of nationality and, where relevant, immigration status can be reviewed here
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a Basic Disclosure Scotland check.
Individuals working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standardchecks.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
As a proud member of the Disability Confident Scheme, we welcome applications from disabled candidates. RoS is a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of selection process is used. To learn more please see our EDI strategy.
As part of the application process, we would like to invite you to please complete our diversity monitoring form. This information is not shared with recruitment panels.
If you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please let us know via Please see this page for more information on adjustments.
Further information
For further information relating to RoS, including:
- Additional details on pay & benefits
- The Civil Service Code
- Complaints process
- Use of AI in the application/recruitment process,
Please view our additional information page online
If you have any questions, please contact
