Work role Associate Director of Risk and Assurance for a charity

[RosieLeaLovesTea]

• Hi all I saw this role role advertised an Associate Director of Assurance for a charity. These are the key skills from the job desciption
• Strategic Leadership: Guide teams to deliver results efficiently and collaboratively, ensuring the Society achieves its strategic goals while maintaining control, resilience, and compliance. Champion a culture of risk assurance and compliance.
• Line Management: Oversee Assurance, Risk, Legal, and Governance teams, managing their leaders directly.
• Strategic Impact & Risk Management: Ensure the Society meets legal and regulatory obligations while managing risks effectively. Oversee the assurance framework and reporting systems, ensuring compliance and best practices, with input from those living with dementia shaping decisions.
• Service Delivery: Collaborate with the Executive and Senior Leadership Teams to provide risk oversight and management, reporting regularly on risk status and compliance with Charity Commission regulations.
• People & Leadership: Lead on risk and assurance, fostering accountability and empowering teams to manage their risks. Promote inclusion and high performance through clear goals, coaching, and feedback, embodying the Society's values and leadership competencies.

in a role like this what would you actually do?
what would you diary look lke?

Attending a lot of meetings.

Ensure feedback from inspections and audits are implemented.

Draft and update policies.

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me can provide more input.

Are you the charity and have created a new role that yu know you need but don't know really what it involves, so asking here for advice?
Or are you applying for this job as a complete novice in terms of what is required and wanting some clues behore interview?
Either way, I think in such jobs, knowing what a weekly diary will like is very hard as much of the work will be self-generating!

I think I've seen which charity is advertising this role and it isn't a small one. It's one of the major UK charities.

Unless you already work in risk, compliance or assurance, this is not a role that you will be able to pick up on the job. You will be required to hit the ground running.

You will be a senior leader, managing the heads of 4 teams. i would expect the day to day to consist of meetings with other senior leaders in the organisation, people management of your team, reviewing docs, policies, procedures, assurance outcomes of work undertaken by your team and providing sign off, generating plans for work for the team moving forwards, managing processes, training and undertaking L&D to keep up to date with charity commission regulations and developments, managing the outcomes of risk incidents or near misses as they occur plus plans to prevent in future.

Do you have any experience in risk, legal or assurance, OP?