Manager – Risk Advisory, Public Sector Risk and Resilience

Company:

Marsh

Description:

Local Government | Risk, Resilience and Community Impact

JLT Public Sector, part of Marsh, is a long-standing specialist in risk, insurance and claims solutions for local government. For more than 50 years, we have worked with councils to help protect community assets, strengthen service resilience and reduce the impact of claims on local communities.

This is an opportunity to join a specialist public sector risk team working directly with more than 100 local government organisations across Victoria and Tasmania, and alongside your peers, across more than LGA’s 500 nationally.

Local government is complex, diverse and deeply connected to community outcomes. Councils manage public infrastructure, community facilities, roads, recreation reserves, essential services, climate exposures, statutory obligations and high public expectations. The risks are practical, visible and important. As Manager – Risk Advisory, Public Sector Risk and Resilience, you will help councils improve their understanding, management, and response to those risks.

You will be part of a Risk Team with a clear purpose: To help make communities safer, protect community assets, improve business resilience and reduce the impact of claims on our Mutual and Member clients.

Reporting to the Divisional Manager – Risk, this is a hands-on, client-facing advisory role. You will work directly with council executives, senior managers and risk professionals to develop and deliver practical risk services across strategic risk, business resilience, property risk, liability risk and emerging public sector risk issues.

A key focus of the role will be supporting councils to strengthen business continuity, emergency readiness and organisational resilience. This role will suit an experienced risk professional who wants to apply their capability to work that has a direct and positive impact on communities.

We will count on you to: 

• Provide high-quality risk management advice to local government Members, including written advice, verbal guidance, workshops and practical support.
• Lead and deliver risk advisory projects across business resilience, strategic risk, property risk, liability risk, climate-related risk and emerging public sector issues.
• Develop practical guidance, tools, templates and assurance resources that help councils improve risk management capability.
• Support councils to strengthen business continuity planning, critical service resilience and incident readiness.
• Design and deliver training, seminars and workshops for council officers, managers and executives.
• Identify sector trends, claims drivers and emerging risks, and translate these into practical member support.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior council stakeholders.
• Support and mentor colleagues within the Risk Team.
• Apply strong communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills to complex and varied local government risk issues.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of JLT Public Sector’s risk services and member value proposition.

What you need to have:

• Strong practical experience in risk management, assurance, business resilience,
• insurance, claims, governance, public sector advisory or a related field.
• The ability to provide clear, practical and credible advice to senior stakeholders.
• Experience planning and delivering advisory, consulting, policy or operational improvement projects.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to prepare guidance, reports, tools and member-facing resources.
• Confidence facilitating meetings, workshops, training sessions or stakeholder discussions.
• Sound judgement, curiosity and the ability to work through complex or ambiguous risk issues.
• A tertiary qualification in risk management, business, law, public policy, governance, emergency management, business continuity or a related discipline is desirable.

What makes you stand out?

• Over 10 years’ experience working in or with local or state government.
• Demonstrable experience in business continuity, asset resilience, and critical service planning.
• Knowledge of liability, property risk, insurance, and claims management.
• Deep understanding of civil liability, public authority risk or local government statutory obligations.
• Mastery of leading projects that improve organisational risk capability.
• Significant experience with the Local Government Act and other legislation relevant to councils.
• A genuine interest in community safety, public value and asset resilience.

Why this role matters:

This is not a generic risk role.

The advice, tools and support you will create and provide will help councils make better decisions about the services, assets and places their communities rely on every day. You will work on practical risk issues affecting roads, footpaths, facilities, open spaces, community services, business continuity, emergency readiness, and long-term public value.

For an experienced risk professional, this is an opportunity to move beyond internal risk and contribute to risk improvement across an entire sector.

Please apply using the link below, applications will only be considered from candidates who have the appropriate approval to work in Australia. Successful applicants will be required to complete a Criminal & Bankruptcy check prior to commencement of employment.

Marsh Risk is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information about Marsh Risk, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Applications will only be considered from candidates who have the appropriate approval to work in Australia. Successful applicants will be required to complete a Criminal & Bankruptcy check prior to commencing of employment.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.