Governance, Risk and Compliance Manager

About the Role

The Governance, Risk and Compliance Manager is a senior role within the Information Security team, responsible for maintaining and improving governance and risk frameworks for IT Services. The postholder will define risk and governance processes, including how process owners are identified and the activities to ensure that the process is governed effectively, to ensure that IT systems and information assets are adequately protected. The postholder is responsible for identifying, evaluating and reporting on governance and compliance risks and issues in a manner that meets the University’s regulatory and legal requirements. The Governance, Risk and Compliance Manager works proactively with the various departments, schools, faculties, business units and other internal departments to implement practices that meet the University’s defined policies and standards for information risk management, governance and compliance.

About You

You will have a significant level of specialist expertise in IT Governance, Risk and Compliance, with proven responsibility for, and experience of, executing a robust risk and governance process and frameworks in a complex environment. You will be successful at delivering high quality, robust, resilient, responsive and secure enterprise-wide IT and Information Security governance, pursuing customer-focused approaches to achieve good governance within a risk-based approach.

You should ideally have a degree and/or professional qualification in an IT subject or in-depth experience in relevant technical area. It is essential that you either hold a risk management qualification (e.g. CRISC) or can otherwise demonstrate significant management and operational experience using appropriate best practice information risk frameworks such as ISO 27001. It is desirable that you have project management qualifications e.g. Prince 2, MSP, PMP qualified or demonstrable experience of managing projects.

About the Department

IT Services are dedicated to enabling transformational change, improving and maintaining complex operations, and delivering change. They support excellence in research and teaching through comprehensive services such as high-performance computing, data storage, desktop support, and digital solutions design, ensuring seamless IT experiences for students and staff.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality.

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