A career at Arup offers you the chance to make a positive difference in the world. Independently owned and independently minded, Arup is the creative force at the heart of many of the world’s most prominent projects in the built environment. We believe that flexible arrangements, such as hybrid working, create a more inclusive way of working that supports our diversity and the wellbeing of our people.

Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of designers, consultants and experts working globally. Founded to be humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology, and rigour to shape a better world.

Governance Risk and Compliance Consultant

The Advisory and Digital Services team is made up of a diverse group of individuals and experts from around the world, encompassing a broad range of advisory and digital services skillsets. In collaboration with our colleagues across the Arup community, we deliver specialist services across a range of sectors including transport, cities, water, energy and science, industry, and technology, throughout Ireland and across Europe. Our clients face a myriad of complex challenges, from successfully adapting for the green economy to the operational resilience challenges brought about by emerging global events. We strive to collaborate across Arup, deepening our understanding of our clients’ visions for the future and thereby delivering meaningful and impactful work.

Your responsibilities

• To develop and manage a Governance, Risk and Compliance framework for clients and, where applicable, their externally delivered operation services providers, ensuring compliance with all regulatory, legislative and contractual requirements and alignment with any client policies and procedures.
• Ensure both initial and ongoing ISO and GDPR compliance and deal with any new or emerging compliance requirements as they come.
• Advise clients of best practice in relation to data security and management, include Data Protection Policies, Data Retention, Data and Information Security, Subject Access Requests, etc.
• To review business continuity planning by clients and their service providers, ensuring Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management planning is comprehensive and its resilience tested.
• Implement a governance programme including risk management processes, data security management and a structured audit programme, including management of audit actions and remediation plans.
• Maintaining Risks and Issues Registers, Audit logs, Actions Lists, etc and coordinating and facilitating regular reviews.
• Provide reporting into the client to support their relevant GRC corporate requirements.

Your Education/Profile

• 4 years minimum experience working in a GRC or related environment.
• Degree or 3rd level qualification (HETAC Level 7 or higher) in business, accounting, engineering, management or other relevant experience.
• Project Management, Quality Management, Risk Management and/or Change Management or related certifications preferred.
• Experience with ISO standards is desirable but not essential.
• Experience in risk management, compliance management and governance of an operation or project would be desirable.
• Experience in incident management, technical change management and SDLC.
• Experience in managing stakeholders.

What to expect at Arup:

• A multicultural and informal working environment where you can develop professionally by being part of a team who enjoy what they do.
• We believe that flexible arrangements, such as hybrid working, create a more inclusive way of working that supports our diversity and the wellbeing of our people.
• Opportunities for short or long assignments at Arup’s offices and projects anywhere in the world.
• Employees are eligible for the Global Profit Share scheme, which is dependent on the firm’s financial performance.
• Competitive performance-based salary growth.
• A strong corporate culture committed to its values: quality of work, holistic approach, humane organization, straight and honourable dealings, social usefulness and reasonable prosperity.
• Continuous training and professional development that will allow you to adapt to the growing needs of our clients as we embrace digital transformation.

Join us in shaping a better world.

Our goal is to shape a better world, finding solutions for some of the world’s most complex problems. From climate action to social value, we consider the most expansive impacts of our work. Our drive to build a more sustainable, resilient and equitable future shapes our culture and has made us leaders in sustainable development. The successful candidate will join our multi-disciplinary design teams focusing on technical excellence and innovative solutions that create a better future for people, places, and the planet.

'A better way'- Sustainability and Social Equity

At Arup, we strive to bring environmental sustainability and social equity together. We put sustainability at the heart of our projects and invest in research and development that helps tackle issues such as climate change and poverty. We have made a commitment to reach net zero by 2030 and to contribute meaningfully to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, creating shared value for our clients and our communities while safeguarding our planet. Read our net zero carbon plan here. Read our net zero carbon plan here.

A career at Arup gives you the chance to have a positive impact on the world. For us, corporate responsibility is not just a policy; it’s a way of working.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion is at the heart of what we do

We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for talented people of any background based on merit, fairness and respect. At Arup, you’ll be a welcomed member of the team with opportunities to participate in social, cultural and educational events with the local community (e.g. as a STEM ambassador) or with your colleagues by joining staff networks such as those for women, culture or the LGBTQ+ community.

We are a certified CPD accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2020

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