Director of Risk and Compliance

Band: SL
Contract type: 1 x continuing (permanent) role
Location: Salford, Birmingham, Cardiff, Belfast, London, Glasgow

JOB INTRODUCTION

As Director of Risk, you will provide strategic leadership of risk, resilience, compliance and organisational integrity across the BBC Group. Acting as a trusted adviser to the Board and Executive Committee, you will help the organisation understand its risk exposure, anticipate emerging threats and opportunities, balance risk and reward, and make informed strategic choices. You will strengthen accountability and risk management, enabling the successful delivery of the BBC's strategic objectives while protecting its people, operations and reputation.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

This role has significant strategic and reputational influence across the BBC Group, shaping how risk, resilience, compliance and organisational integrity support performance, decision-making and accountability.

As a trusted adviser to Executive and Non-Executive leaders, you will provide independent insight, challenge and assurance, helping shape strategic choices and giving the Board confidence that the BBC's principal risks and opportunities are understood and actively managed.

You will also play a key role in promoting a culture of accountability, integrity and responsible conduct across the BBC Group, ensuring concerns are raised, investigated and addressed appropriately, and that learning is embedded across the organisation.

Leading a pan-BBC function of more than 50 professionals, you will oversee risk, compliance, resilience, investigations, safety, safeguarding and security, ensuring the organisation is prepared to anticipate, respond to and learn from risk while delivering its strategic objectives.

• Leading a multi-disciplinary team across Corporate Risk Management, Compliance, Business Continuity and Resilience, Corporate Investigations, Whistleblowing, Safety, Safeguarding and Security, championing culture, conduct and organisational integrity.
• Setting and championing the organisation's risk, resilience and compliance strategy, strengthening culture, governance and frameworks while enabling effective, trusted business partnering and informed strategic-decisions
• Maintaining effective governance arrangements, including risk appetite, escalation frameworks and management reporting processes, ensuring risk appetite informs Executive-decision making and supports intelligent risk-taking.
• Ensuring risk and resilience considerations inform strategic planning, major investment decisions, transformation programmes, partnerships and organisational change initiatives with emerging threats and opportunities identified, understood and addressed.
• Designing and overseeing corporate risk, resilience and compliance frameworks, ensuring effective governance, assurance and reporting across the BBC.
• Overseeing the assessment and assurance of material risk and controls pan-BBC, supporting Board attestations and partnering with Internal Audit regarding control effectiveness.
• Providing independent assurance to the Board, Audit & Risk Committee and BBC Executive on the adequacy, effectiveness and maturity of the BBC Group's risk management and control framework, giving the Board confidence that the BBC's overall risk exposure is understood and effectively managed.

• Overseeing the BBC's non-editorial compliance, investigations and whistleblowing frameworks, acting as a senior sponsor of Call it Out and ensuring the independent and proportionate handling of sensitive matters.
• Leading the BBC's organisational resilience, business continuity and crisis management frameworks, including testing, exercising, preparedness and lessons learned, and providing strategic leadership and direction during major incidents and organisational crises.

ARE YOU THE RIGHT CANDIDATE?

You will be an established leader, with the credibility and judgement to operate effectively at Board and Executive level. You will combine deep professional expertise with the ability to lead strategic priorities, influence decision-making, and build effective relationships in complex and evolving environments.

You will:

• Demonstrate experience advising Boards, Committees and Executive teams in PLCs or large public sector organisations, operating within a mature Three Lines governance framework and partnering with Internal Audit and external assurance providers.

• Bring the ability to provide clear, evidence-based advice and challenge on risk, governance and controls matters.
• Demonstrate agility and flexibility in uncertainty, with the ability to lead effectively across a range of strategic priorities.
• Demonstrate significant experience developing and embedding enterprise risk, organisational resilience, business continuity and crisis management frameworks.
• Demonstrate experience leading risk, compliance or assurance functions, building effective relationships and high-performing teams within a complex organisation.
• Demonstrate experience overseeing material risks, controls and assurance activities across organisational boundaries, including business continuity and crisis management arrangements.
• Hold professional accreditation in risk management, governance, compliance, resilience, audit, safety, security, investigations or a related discipline.
• Show deep expertise in risk, compliance and assurance providing professional leadership and credibility at Executive and Board levels.
• Bring well-established external networks and credibility with fellow senior leaders/professionals in industry, professional services and/or regulatory bodies.
• Demonstrate knowledge of organisation resilience, business continuity, crisis management and incident response within complex organisations
• Demonstrate knowledge of corporate investigations, whistleblowing and Speak Up frameworks, including the governance of high risk or sensitive investigations.
• Understand financial controls, assurance, organisational sustainability, ethical governance, organisational integrity and the factors that shape organisational culture.