Provide end to end governance advice and support, working alongside Delivery Manager / Delivery Leads to enable the effective running of remediation & change initiatives (including delivery elements and other related activities (policy assurance, business continuity, framework assurance, risk management, effective planning, resourcing assistance etc).
This role is part of the Governance & Reporting team within Put Right & Stop Happening. The role sits directly in the remediation space, working alongside numerous stakeholders to help effectively manage end to end remediations.
At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.
For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon, London, Northampton, Wakefield or Dunfermline office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.
If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.
What you’ll be doing
To ensure the safe and timely delivery of remediations programmes by supporting the delivery of the Remediation CoE and Society’s strategic objectives. This will be done by, providing the appropriate level of challenge and support to Delivery and Operational colleagues. By supporting effective risk identification, management and mitigation. Ensuring all necessary governance activities and milestones are achieved and documented. Ensuring key stakeholders have complete and accurate visibility of progress throughout the project lifecycle.
About you
- You will have proven project management experience, ideally within a financial services institution.
- Proven experience in following a governance framework through a project lifecycle.
- Being able to evidence being the key governance link in programmes with the ability to support and challenge delivery leads.
- Ability to identify, log and articulate risks & issues then showcase for escalation where required.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to explain decisions confidently and clearly.
- Have experience of creating programme plans through collaboration and having the ability to identify risks, slippages and associated impacts.
- Establishing and creating content for governance forums, ensuring standards fit for purpose.
- People management experience of several staff at one time.
- Management of relevant governance repositories and project mailboxes.
- Experience working with risk and policy stakeholders to identify society attestations, and work required to progress returns.
Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.
- Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
- Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
- Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.
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The extras you’ll get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
- A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
- Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
- Life assurance worth 8x your salary
- A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
- Access to an annual performance related bonus
- Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
- 25 days holiday, pro rata
What makes us different
Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.
As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.