Hireup is an online platform and community for people with disability and their families to find, hire and manage support workers that fit their needs and share their interests. Whether it’s support with getting to work or catching a local footy game, Hireup gives people the tools to live life on their own terms.

With thousands of registered users and support workers in big cities and remote communities all across Australia, Hireup is a national network of local supports, committed to delivering an individualised approach to support and community-driven future for the disability sector.

As a purpose-led organisation with over 200 HQ staff (and growing), we are dedicated to powering the evolution of the disability sector. We do this by keeping the community at the heart of our decision making and encouraging a culture defined by kindness, innovation, equality and storytelling.

The Risk team at Hireup is focused on protecting the safety of our community and safeguarding our operations to ensure Hireup and our community can continue to grow. We work to build credibility, trust and confidence in our organisation to execute on ambitious strategic goals so that we can offer more support to more people.
Reporting to our Head of Risk, you will support the ongoing development and implementation of the Hireup Risk Management Framework as well as deliver advisory services and risk mitigation strategies to the wider business.

Priorities - the work

• Support ongoing development and implementation of the Hireup Risk Management Framework
• Act as a risk advisory partner to a number of teams across the organisation, providing expertise, guidance and mentoring around risk assessment for projects, Business as Usual activities and strategic initiatives
• Work with Product teams to assess risks throughout the Agile delivery cycle (from discovery through to delivery phases) and help to develop and evolve relevant mitigation strategies as the organisation continues to scale up
• Drive the preparation of risk reporting to senior management and to the Risk & Safety Committee of the Board
• Assist in the roll out of a peer review process to gain confidence on the effective operation of controls to mitigate key categories of risk
• Partner with relevant teams around incidents, such as incident response, fraud, compliance and legal
• Work with relevant stakeholders to maintain effective business continuity protocols and ensure ongoing preparedness to respond to uncertain events

Skills - the person

• Strong experience in risk management roles with exposure to multiple industries, ideally health and/or technology or industries with a major focus on safety
• Experience in developing risk frameworks, relevant policy and corresponding procedures / guidance documentation
• Comfortable with organising data to extract relevant insights and drive recommendations
• Exposure to defining and managing business continuity, disaster recovery, emergency response
• Ability to build exceptional relationships with all stakeholders across the organisation
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and influence with empathy to partner with different levels of the organisation
• Strong project management skills, ability to work autonomously, self organised, meeting deadlines, achieving outcomes. You will excel at turning ideas into action.
• Ability to work in ambiguous situations, on complex new problems with limited guidance
• Familiar with concepts of human centred design approach to problem solving

Apply now

People with lived experience of disability are strongly encouraged to apply.

Apply below or for more information about the role and how it fits within Hireup, contact our Talent Acquisition Manager, Ria on [email protected], using the subject line: Risk Manager enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Hireup is dedicated to creating inclusive and accessible candidate experiences for all and encourage you to contact us if you have suggestions on how we can improve or adjust our approach to ensure an enjoyable, fair and informative candidate experience.