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Head of Compliance, Risk and Assurance

Employer
RNIB
Location
London or Peterborough
Salary
£65,000 per annum (Including London Weighting)
Closing date
6 May 2019

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Every day 250 people begin to lose their sight.  RNIB has a crucial role to play in creating a world where there are no barriers to people with sight loss. We want society, communities and individuals to see differently about sight loss.  To help achieve this, our Compliance, Risk and Assurance function provides essential leadership in ensuring that our risks are well managed and statutory compliance reporting requirements are met in full.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Head of Compliance, Risk and Assurance to lead the repositioning of this key function at RNIB.

Working very closely with both the Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, and Director of Finance, key accountabilities include:

  • Holding teams to account on performance compliance and ensuring robustness of reporting
  • Delivering a risk management function that informs strategic decision making, with a particular focus on the effectiveness of assurance activity
  • Driving a risk-based planning and delivery culture across the organisation
  • Managing the internal audit function
  • Developing and maintaining the business continuity plan

You will have:

  • Experience in delivering organisational compliance frameworks and reporting across one or more of the following areas: safeguarding, regulated services, fundraising, data protection
  • Significant experience of delivering a risk management function within a large organisation
  • Experience of overseeing an internal audit function, either through self, direct reports or external providers
  • Experience of direct working with committees/boards, providing papers and leading decision making therein
  • A professional qualification in risk management, internal audit, accountancy or equivalent

In exchange we offer a competitive salary, a stimulating and supportive working environment and a benefits package including:

  • 26 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), which increase with service
  • Excellent pension schemes
  • Interest free season ticket loans and cycle to work schemes
  • Free eye tests and Health Cash Plans
  • In-house training and development opportunities

If you would like to apply for this great job opportunity please click the apply button.

Closing date for applications: 6th May 2019.
Interview date: TBC.

We’re the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and we’re here for everyone affected by sight loss. Working for us means working for one of the UK’s biggest charities, supporting almost two million people living with sight loss in the UK.

RNIB is committed to being an Equal Opportunities organisation and we welcome applications from people with sight loss.

Company

RNIB (the Royal National Institute of Blind People) is a large, national charity offering information, support and advice to two million blind and partially sighted people throughout the UK. Founded in 1868, RNIB has an annual income of more than £114m, over 1,700 employees and 4,800 volunteers. It is headquartered in London.

RNIB’s vision is of a world where people who are blind and partially sighted enjoy the same rights, responsibilities, opportunities and quality of life as people who are fully sighted.

RNIB began life as in 1868 as the British and Foreign Blind Association for Improving the Embossed Literature of the Blind. It was founded by a partially sighted doctor, Thomas Rhodes Armitage. In 1949 the charity received a Royal Charter and, in 1953, changed its name to the Royal National Institute for the Blind. In 2002, RNIB became a membership organisation and changed its name again - to the Royal National Institute of Blind People, rather than for Blind People. Under RNIB’s Royal Charter and Bye-laws, the majority of its trustees must be blind or partially sighted.

One of the charity’s flagship services, Talking Books, began in 1935 and is still very popular. It gives access to 23,000 fiction and non-fiction books for adults and children. Subscribers can receive the books on a CD, USB stick, an app or mp3 format. They can also use RNIB’s digital download service or borrow from 22,000 braille books and 5,000 giant print books.

The charity runs an online shop and has four resource centres which sell accessible products. Products include talking clocks and watches, large button telephones, cookery aids and tactile toys and games.

RNIB’s Helpline has been running since 1997. Callers through the Helpline can reach the charity’s advice and counselling teams. The Advice Service is able to give advice to blind and partially sighted people, carers, friends, relatives and organisations helping people with sight loss. Common issues include eye conditions, registering sight loss, employment, education and benefits.

RNIB’s Counselling Team is a small group of telephone and online counsellors who give people struggling with the onset of sight loss the opportunity to talk about their feelings and gain support. Calls or sessions are not charged.

RNIB has recently decided to amalgamate its 24,000 membership in a new community called RNIB Connect. Membership is free and includes the charity’s 8,000 strong campaigning network and the charity Action for Blind People’s Action Connect online community (Action for Blind People became an associate charity of RNIB in 2009).

RNIB is also an active campaigning charity. It has 8,000 campaign supporters and campaign staff stationed across the UK. Recent campaigns have concerned the new Personal Independence Payments and changes to Attendance Allowance. The charity also undertakes permanent campaigning on transport and retail accessibility and pavement obstructions.

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Telephone
0303 123 9999
Location
105 Judd Street,
London
London
WC1H 9NE
GB

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