Enterprise Risk Management Program Manager

WAPA operates in a complex and rapidly changing electric utility industry. The ERM Program Manager will advance WAPA’s enterprise risk management capabilities to address the most pressing issues in our high-risk industry. The ERM Program Manager reports to WAPA’s Chief Strategy Officer and serves the Senior Leadership Team in the management of WAPA-wide risk issues. Through leadership, vision, direction and oversight, the ERM Program Manager works across the organization to establish and operate a sustainable risk management program, driving identification, evaluation, and management of the most significant risks to WAPA’s mission, strategic goals and operations.

Responsibilities

• Designing and executing a comprehensive ERM program.
• Managing risk data and related systems for ongoing collection and analysis of risk metrics.
• Leading and collaborating with risk owners across the enterprise to identify, manage, and address priority risks.
• Conducting detailed risk analyses to evaluate likelihood, impact, volatility, velocity and interdependences of the most crucial risks to WAPA.
• Working with WAPA’s leaders to define WAPA’s risk appetite and tolerance.
• Building a risk management culture through training, awareness, and business and operational integration.

Qualifications

• Experience conducting complex risk analyses, using qualitative and quantitative methods, and developing and reporting on risk metrics to identify key risk exposures.
• Experience working with leaders on the most complex organizational risks.
• Interpersonal skills to work with internal and external stakeholders to foster risk awareness and knowledge, build risk competencies and culture, and collaborate to solve shared issues.
• Experience leading and maturing enterprise risk management programs, including establishing initial governance, policies and procedures, and rigorous, systematic processes to identify, analyze, evaluate, and mitigate risks.
• Extensive ERM experience, preferably with a minimum of five consecutive years in the risk management profession.
• Proven skill in addressing electric utility risks, including risks associated with energy transmission, operations and maintenance, and/or other utility and major infrastructure risks.