PMO Senior Risk Analyst
| Posting date: | 17 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £54,931 to £64,644 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 March 2026 |
| Location: | London, London, WC1H 9BT |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | University College London |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B28-00219_1773746765 |
Summary
About us
UCL manages one of the most complex and diverse estates in the higher education sector, comprising over 240 buildings, more than 6.5 million square feet of academic space and around 4,500 owned student bedrooms across Bloomsbury and UCL East.
Campus Experience and Infrastructure & Estates Development (CE&I and ED) are responsible for everything from strategic masterplanning and capital delivery to operational facilities management, supporting more than 46,000 students and 13,000 staff. At the centre of this activity sits the Portfolio Management Office (PMO), ensuring the integrity, resilience and successful delivery of a substantial portfolio of capital projects, minor works and strategic maintenance programmes. As our estate evolves, strengthening risk management maturity and insight is critical to delivering sustainable, high-quality outcomes.
About the role
The PMO Senior Risk Analyst will play a pivotal role in strengthening and embedding risk and value management across UCL Estates' portfolio of programmes and projects.
Reporting to the Assistant Director, Portfolio Management Office, you will lead at a functional level on risk, issue and value management, ensuring best practice principles are consistently applied across all stages of the project lifecycle.
You will support and challenge project teams in the development of costed risk registers, undertake and review Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis and Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis, and provide clear, actionable insight to senior stakeholders. The role involves identifying and analysing thematic risks, cross-project dependencies and constraints, and producing high-quality reporting that informs strategic decision-making. You will facilitate risk workshops, contribute to governance and assurance processes including stage gates, and help drive continuous improvement in risk oversight, data quality and reporting capability, including the move towards more automated solutions.
Operating across multiple fast-moving projects, you will influence, guide and coach colleagues within the PMO and wider Estates teams, strengthening risk culture and ensuring that risks are understood, communicated and managed effectively at portfolio, programme and project levels.
About you
You are an experienced risk professional with a strong background in risk and value management within complex projects or programmes, ideally within infrastructure, construction or estates environments. You bring a solid understanding of both qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, including experience with techniques such as Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) and Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis (QCRA).
You are confident facilitating risk workshops, analysing complex project information and translating insights into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders. Your analytical mindset is matched by excellent communication skills, enabling you to explain complex risks and dependencies in a way that supports effective decision-making.
You are comfortable working across multiple projects simultaneously, collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders and adapting quickly to shifting priorities. You take a proactive approach to improving risk practices, identifying opportunities to strengthen governance, reporting and assurance across programmes.
Ideally, you will hold a recognised qualification in risk management such as APM Risk, MoR or an equivalent certification, alongside a project or programme management qualification such as PRINCE2 or MSP.
Most importantly, you are motivated by the opportunity to contribute to the successful delivery of an ambitious estate programme that supports one of the world's leading universities.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.