**Application Instructions:  

Please apply directly to Training Qualifications UK –  Risk Manager   

Applications submitted to AQA will be referred back to the sender**  

For any queries relating to this role, please contact the Training Qualifications UK directly on the following email address: [email protected]  

​Closing date: 24/07/2026

Job Description

​​Permanent Full-Time
Location: Hybrid/Remote, Sale Manchester UK
Salary: £50,000
Reports to: Head of Audit, Risk and Compliance
Line Management Responsibilities: No
 

Overview

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Training Qualifications UK is the fastest-growing Awarding Organisation in the UK and a market-leading End-Point Assessment Organisation. We work with over 500 schools, colleges, universities, and training providers across the world to provide qualification certificates, endorsements, and apprenticeships to over 150,000 learners.   

What’s the secret to our success? Simply put, we do things differently here!

​​This role is responsible for supporting effective risk management practices across TQUK, enabling managers and teams to identify, manage, escalate and monitor risks consistently and proportionately.

The Risk Manager is instrumental in helping the organisation understand and manage uncertainty as it grows. They will play a key role in strengthening TQUK’s approach to risk, ensuring that risks are clearly articulated, owned and actively managed to support delivery of strategic objectives.

The postholder will work collaboratively across the organisation, providing guidance, tools and challenge, while promoting a positive risk culture that supports innovation and growth within a controlled environment.

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Key responsibilities

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• Maintain and develop TQUK’s risk management framework, including risk appetite, policies and supporting guidance.
• Support managers and teams with risk identification, assessment, mitigation and escalation.
• Own and maintain organisational risk registers, ensuring risks are clearly articulated, current and appropriately controlled.
• Embed risk management into project and change activity, supporting project risk assessments and reviews.
• Provide oversight of risk trends and emerging risks, escalating issues where appropriate.
• Support the Leadership Team and Executive with risk reporting, insight and assurance.
• Coordinate responses to audit findings related to risk management and control effectiveness.
• Promote a consistent and proportionate approach to risk management across the organisation.
• Support the development of a positive risk culture, balancing opportunity and control.

Other responsibilities

• Work closely with Audit and Compliance colleagues to ensure alignment across the ARC function.
• Keep abreast of best practice in enterprise risk management and governance.
• Maintain a strong knowledge of sector developments and TQUK products, systems and processes.
• Support training and awareness activity to build risk capability across the organisation.
• Undertake other duties considered within your skill and competence to support the effective running of the business.
   

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Key requirements

• Experience working in risk management, governance or assurance roles.
• Practical experience supporting risk identification, assessment and reporting.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Experience working in regulated, education or complex organisational environments.
• Professional qualifications or memberships such as IRM, CII, or similar are desirable.
   

Key characteristics

• Pragmatic, proportionate and commercially aware.
• Confident engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
• Structured and analytical, with the ability to see the bigger picture.
• Calm under pressure and comfortable dealing with uncertainty.
• Passionate about enabling good decision-making through effective risk management.

​​​Key Benefits

• Training, Qualifications & Apprenticeships. It’s what we do!
• Company sick pay upon completion of probation.
• 25 days annual leave plus 8 days Bank Holiday (33 in total).
• Additional annual leave day each year, after 2 years of continuous service (up to 28 days).
• An extra day off to celebrate your birthday.
• Annual Loyalty Bonus.
• Annual salary review.
• Bupa healthcare benefits.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• NEST pension.
• Cycle-to-work scheme.
• A positive and supportive working environment.
• Comprehensive onboarding.
• A workplace that supports a healthy work/life balance.

*We are an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Should you require any additional support during the recruitment process due to a disability, please contact us so we can assist you.*

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