Assurance Business Partner
| Posting date: | 06 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £34,233 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 409070/1 |
Summary
Do you have an awareness in project/programme delivery?
Are you a natural influencer who loves to have challenging conversations?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably. We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- make roads safer
- improve services for our customers
- make road transport greener and healthier
- harness the potential of technology and data
- grow and level up the economy
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DVSA.
Join DVSA’s Assurance Team and help shape how we deliver change. You’ll provide independent assurance across a portfolio of projects, using insights from governance, risk, and control to support informed decision-making.
Working with senior leaders, you’ll promote a transparent assurance culture and deliver data-driven insights to guide strategic choices. You’ll support project teams with expert advice, lead assurance reviews, and help improve governance and risk practices.
You’ll also manage DVSA’s Programme and Project Management Framework (PPMF), aligning with government standards. This is a key role driving continuous improvement across the organisation.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Act as a key point of contact and provide for best practice advice for programmes, associated projects and related business areas
- Advise Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), programme and project teams with quality assurance and quality control activities within project lifecycles using insight from governance risk, and controls
- Provide a quality assurance service on key project management products such as Business Cases to ensure compliance with portfolio management framework requirements and support successful change delivery
- Check compliance with risk management processes and risk escalation in line with the required standards
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