Head of Chief Inspectors Office

Requirements of the role

We’re looking for a Head of the Chief Inspectors Office to be based at any of our office locations: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, York, Glasgow. At ORR we have adopted hybrid working and are currently expected to work from a workplace location for a minimum of two days per week or 40%.

Railway Safety ensures duty-holders in the railway industry manage health and safety risks effectively and comply with their statutory duties.

The Chief Inspector’s Office (CIO) is a new team that’s being created to safeguard delivery of the Railway Safety Directorate’s (RSD’s) work, ensuring clear accountability, strong assurance and proactive risk management. It will also play an important role in supporting continuous improvement within RSD, including through programme management leadership and oversight of change management.

As the first Head of the CIO, you will shape the function from day one. You will build on and expand the governance for RSD’s work, providing focused assurance and oversight while avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy. You will provide strategic advice and constructive challenge to the Chief Inspector and will carry the authority to take certain decisions on their behalf, enabling them to focus on strategic leadership of the directorate while enabling progress for colleagues. You will assure the quality and clarity of content entering Board-level forums, provide forward looking insight, and anticipate strategic risks and delivery constraints.

In short, you will enable better, faster decisions, reduce delays and rework, and help to keep statutory and other commitments on track, while ensuring the Chief Inspector has the right intelligence at the right time to lead the Directorate strategically, at pace, and with impact.

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