Head of Risk & Business Continuity - 6373

Job Title: Head of Risk & Business Continuity

Salary: £66,400-£88,900 per annum

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (2-3 days per week in Cambridge)

Contract: Full time, permanent, 35 hours per week

Are you driven by purpose and ready to make a global impact? Join us to protect what matters most-enabling millions of learners to pursue their potential, every day.

At Cambridge University Press & Assessment, we're in pursuit of potential- yours, ours, and the millions of learners we serve worldwide. Join us as our new Head of Risk & Business Continuity and play a key role in safeguarding our reputation and enabling innovation across International Education.

About the role

This is a unique opportunity to lead and continuously improve risk management and business continuity for our International Education division. You'll collaborate with senior leaders and teams across the world, ensuring our operations remain resilient, compliant, and ready for the future. Your expertise will help us maintain the trust of our stakeholders and empower us to move faster and further with our strategic ambitions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing, implementing, and managing our risk management and business continuity frameworks, policies, and strategies.
• Leading the management of risk identification, assessment and controls across all our assessment and publishing products and services across the world.
• Fostering a culture of risk awareness and resilience through training, workshops, and leadership.
• Leading and developing a small, expert team based in Cambridge and Manila.
• Supporting major change programmes and advising on risk for new projects and ventures.

About you

You are a strategic thinker with relentless curiosity who thrives in complex environments and is motivated by making a real impact. You bring deep expertise in risk management and business continuity, and you're ready to lead, influence, and collaborate at all levels.

You'll bring:

• Significant experience in risk management within regulated, complex settings
• Proven ability to design and lead risk and business continuity frameworks (such as ISO 31000, ISO 22301, COSO)
• Strong analytical, communication, and influencing skills
• Experience working with senior leaders and managing teams
• Understanding of compliance and regulatory requirements (e.g. GDPR)
• Relevant professional qualifications in risk management or business continuity are desirable

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 28th September. Interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 6th October.

Interview Process:

1st round- Virtual interview with a presentation to prepare

2nd round- Face-to-face interview in Cambridge. You may be asked to complete a psychometric questionnaire ahead of this interview.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.