Job Title: Risk and Assurance Support

Salary: The starting salary is £38,926, which includes allowances totalling £2,928.

The salary is broken down as £35,998 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £38,523 Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: London and Hybrid (60% of your time you will work from a Met location, of which at least one day a week will be at your base location in New Scotland Yard)

This role will be required to work across the Strategic Planning and Risk team supporting the Head of Strategic Planning and Risk, Risk Leads and managers to deliver an expert planning, risk and assurance service at both corporate and business group levels. Key responsibilities will include:

• Working with the Risk leads to ensure an effective understanding of key MPS and business group level risks and organisational learning opportunities. Facilitating the work of internal audit providing relevant information and advice.
• Collecting, collating and analysing information to enable the monitoring of audit recommendations, risk areas, organisational learning and research. Maintaining a database of corporate memory relating to this.
• Preparing inputs to corporate and business group level reports and guidance ensuring that they are of high quality and delivered within timescale.
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with external and internal stakeholders, ensuring that the MPS approach to risk and assurance is well understood and guidance is easily accessible.

This role holder will have a key influence on the development of the risk and assurance framework and the understanding of risk and assurance information. The role holder will be responsible for:

• Supporting the production of risk and assurance reports to improve policing outcomes
• Collating and maintaining a database of corporate memory relating to audit, risk, assurance and organisational learning.
• Ensuring effective access to audit, risk and assurance information and guidance for internal stakeholders
• Joining up services across Strategy
• Supporting the effective day-to-day running of the Strategic Planning and Risk team.

The role holder will have a key part in supporting the development of business planning across the organisation alongside maintaining the reporting mechanisms in place. The role holder will be responsible for:

• Supporting the development of the Met’s business planning processes
• Supporting engagement across the Met, partnering with business groups to develop their individual group business plans.
• Collating quarterly reports, data gathering and communication with Business Groups.
• Assisting in raising and maintaining the overall profile of Strategy across the business.
• Responding proactively to requests and work effectively with others to undertake focused activity to meet and deliver priorities.

Note: In addition you may from time to time be required to undertake additional duties necessary to meet the needs of the Met; such duties to be commensurate with the responsibilities and grading of the post.

How to apply

To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply now" button below. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form.

In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate and evidence how you have delivered:

• Operational effectiveness
• Organisational Influence
• Resource Management
• Explain your understanding of key MPS and Business Group level risks an organisational learning opportunities

Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and Personal Statement.

Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 10th September 2025.

Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. The application review for this vacancy will commence 2-3 weeks after the vacancy has closed.

Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates will commence 3-4 weeks after the hiring managers review.

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Skills and Knowledge required:

Strategic perspective

• A good understanding of the workings of the MPS, its vision, objectives and performance regimes including the effect on the MPS of associated risks and learning issues
• Able to understand the strategic issues facing the MPS and the potential impact of these on business-as-usual activity.
• A team player, with dynamic problem-solving skills with a focus upon continuous improvement

Communication and reporting skills

• Strong communication and relationship skills to maintain effective relationships with external and internal stakeholders, ensuring that the MPS approach to risk and assurance is well understood
• An ability to work across traditional boundaries
• Utilise excellent written and verbal communication skills to input to strategic reports on key risk and assurance issues and assist in the development of written guidance for colleagues.
• An ability to utilise available technology to create effective reports.

Planning and organisational skills

• Collate diverse sets of information both operational and non-operational and present in a way that enables risk and opportunities to be identified
• Good time management and organisational skills with the ability to meet demanding deadlines in a pressurised environment.
• The ability to manage a diverse workload.
• Strong team player but the ability to work unsupervised as part of that team.

Other skills

• An understanding of the principles of risk management and assurance including audit and the benefits of organisational learning
• Good IT skills and attention to detail to enable maintenance of databases of information and intranet/SharePoint pages
• The ability to be flexible and support a multi-disciplinary team.
• Energetic and resilient in the face of competing demands, with the ability to prioritise
• Ability to build strong, long-term relationships across organisational boundaries.

Qualifications/Experience

• Desirable but not essential is an ability to demonstrate expertise, skills and competencies in risk management, organisational learning or assurance gained through experience of working within business or project risk management, assurance or organisational learning environments