Specialist (Strategy, Governance & Enterprise Risk Management)

The Corporate Strategy & Development Department drives CDAC’s annual planning cycle, aligning strategy, workplans, risk, and budget. You will partner departments to run the annual planning cycle end‑to‑end using a data‑driven, evidence‑based approach, support governance through policy development and Board/Committee secretariat work and drive organisation development initiatives such as capacity building and productivity improvements across CDAC.

What You Will Work On

• Conduct and drive annual planning cycle, consolidating a clear portfolio of initiatives with outputs, outcomes, milestones, risks, budget, and resourcing.
• Analyse internal and external data to inform strategy, prioritisation, resource allocation, and risk identification.
• Run mid-year and year end reviews; build and maintain a balanced scorecard and dashboards to track results vs targets (timeline, outputs and outcomes).
• Facilitate deep dives with stakeholders; recommend keep/accelerate/stop/intervene decisions and reallocate resources to priorities.
• Prepare strategy and decision papers for Senior Management and the Board.

• Maintain and enhance the ERM framework and risk policy; embed risk into strategy, project gates, and budget trade-offs.
• Facilitate risk assessments at enterprise, departmental, and workplan levels.
• Maintain the enterprise risk register and track mitigation actions.

• Serve as secretariat to the Board and/or relevant Committees where required. Support forward planning, prepare agendas, papers, minutes, track and follow through on action items.
• Maintain and strengthen governance policies (e.g., whistleblowing), ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements (e.g., Charities Act), industry codes and best practices (e.g., Code of Governance for Charities and IPCs).

• Engage internal/external stakeholders (e.g., department heads, programme leads, partners, agencies) to inform strategy and secure buy-in.
• Drive change management for key initiatives (e.g., internal communications, training, AI adoption etc.).

Other tasks as required by Reporting officer

• A degree in relevant field with at least 3 years of relevant experience in strategic planning, committee/board governance support, data protection, analytics, policy governance, enterprise risk and compliance. Candidates with relevant training and experience in 3 or more of the areas listed are encouraged to apply.
• Prior experience in non-profit, public sector, social services and healthcare is preferred. Candidates from other sectors with relevant skills and experience are also encouraged to apply.
• Proven ability to drive annual strategic planning and review cadences (mid-year and year-end) with integrated risk and budget alignment.
• Experience in using logic model or Theory of Change to frame strategy, output, outcome and impact.
• Good Track record at producing Board/Committee/Senior Management papers.
• Proficient in MS Office suite of applications.
• Experience in Salesforce CRM, data extraction, analysis and dashboarding (e.g. Power BI) will be advantageous though not mandatory.
• Strategic thinking, excellent writing, synthesis, facilitation and stakeholder engagement.