Job Title: Governance and Risk Manager – Met Business Services (MBS)
Salary: The starting salary is £48,995 which includes allowances totalling £3,009.
The salary is broken down as £45,986 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £54,863 Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: Kilburn
The Met Business Service (MBS) is a critical enabler of the Met’s strategic objectives, including the delivery of the New Met for London. The MBS Delivery Services function is primarily responsible for ensuring that business services are delivered consistently, efficiently, and in alignment with user needs and strategic priorities.
The Role
The Governance and Risk team are responsible for the operational monitoring and reporting of MBS risks and audit activity to support an integrated governance regime, ensuring delivery of services for compliant and in line with MPS agreed processes.
The Governance and Risk Manager plays a key role in ensuring that enabling functions operate within a robust governance and compliance framework that supports effective decision-making, risk management, and service resilience. The postholder leads the coordination of governance activities, ensuring the forums, processes, and reporting are consistent, and support organisational priorities. Working under the direction of the Governance and Risk Lead, the postholder helps maintain oversight of operational risk and compliance across enabling service functions. This includes managing risk registers, coordinating governance submissions and supporting assurance reporting to senior leadership.
Working for the Met doesn’t have to mean patrolling the streets. Just as important as our uniformed officers is our 14,000-strong team of professional and support staff working behind the scenes. It’s these skilled people who provide the organisational capability to police London.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Governance Framework Management: Maintain and enhance enabling functions governance frameworks, ensuring clear accountability, escalation, and decision-making. Coordinate governance forums, track actions, and communicate outcomes effectively.
- Wider MPS Governance Integration: Ensure governance and risk reporting feeds into MPS-wide governance forums. Communicate issues, escalations, and assurance insights to senior leadership. Highlight dependencies and trends to inform organisation-wide decisions.
- Risk Management and Compliance: Oversee risk registers, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, and mitigated. Monitor compliance with policies, standards, and audit requirements, escalating issues where needed. Work with Service Leads and the Performance & Assurance team to ensure operational risks are reflected in governance.
- Strategic Assurance and Reporting: Maintain audit and governance documentation/frameworks, ensuring accuracy and alignment to policy. Coordinate assurance checks to verify adherence to agreed processes. Provide risk and compliance insight to support reporting and decision making.
- Performance Alignment and Insight: Collaborate with Performance & Assurance team to ensure governance and risk insights inform performance reviews. Highlight emerging trends and dependencies to support prioritisation and resource allocation.
- Long-Term Risk & Assurance Planning: Work with colleagues across the Met to develop and assess future scenarios and strategic risks, providing insight into long-term organisational priorities. Communicate findings effectively with senior leaders and external stakeholders (e.g. MOPAC, Home Office) to support strategic decision-making and enhance assurance frameworks.
- Continuous Improvement: Maintain governance and risk frameworks to improve efficiency and accountability. Capture lessons learned from audits, reviews, and risk activity to strength governance practice.
Benefits
You will enjoy the kind of great benefits that you’d expect from one of London's largest employers.
These include:
- Annual leave entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service
- Civil service pension arrangements
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Membership of Met sports and social clubs
- Flexible working conditions and many more.
London is one of the most exciting and diverse cities in the world – and policing it is no easy task. It takes a huge number of people from all sorts of different backgrounds with a wide range of skills and experience. Do you have what it takes to be one of them? Find out if a career with the Met is what you’re looking for and what kind of challenges; experience and rewards you could have in store.
To streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
How to apply
To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply button “. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and Personal Statement.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 4th March 2026.
Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. The application review for this vacancy will commence one to two weeks after vacancy has closed
Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates are to be confirmed.
