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The Group shall:

• Provide horizon scanning of future risk and business opportunity
• Escalate as necessary any local specific risks that require to be presented to SMG
• Collaborate in the development and maintenance a single University wide risk register
• Review and report where risk is beyond University appetite as stated in the policy
• Ensure that the identification, assessment and monitoring of risk is robustly managed at a local level.  This will include maintaining local risk registers and submitting as part of a quarterly cycle
• Develop and maintain a single mitigation plan that can be interrogated at local and risk categorisation levels.  Extract data and present back to local College or University Services groups
• Support the preparation of quarterly risk reporting packs and present these to local leadership groups including SMG and CMGs.  This will include escalation of single or grouped risks.
• Champion and promote highly effective risk management practices ensuring that the risk management process and culture is embedded throughout the University
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the Risk Management Framework and act as the focus group for any proposed changes to the policy

This is an executive chaired Group with the following membership:

• Director of Risk and Strategic Projects (Chair)
• Head of Finance (each College)
• Director of IT Services
• Deputy Director of People & OD
• Director of Programme Delivery (Transformation)
• Director of Business Support (External Relations)
• Head of Portfolio Management Office (Estates)
• Financial Controls, Compliance and Insurance Manager
• PMO Analyst (Estates)

Each Group member has a responsibility to:

• Provide scrutiny and challenge to all strategic documents, policies and papers
• Apply current thinking and subject matter expertise in relevant fields to risk topics
• Provide critical analysis on cross cutting themes to develop a unified set of mitigating action plans
• Foster a culture that promotes cooperation, compromise, collegiality and collective ownership of risk
• Activity and behaviour should embody the University’s values (click here for details)

The CNC will follow the UofG procedure for the management of any conflicts,  The procedure defines declaration of conflicts as a standard agenda item at the start of the meeting, the maintenance of a register of conflicts, and a process for managing all conflicts which are declared.

Meetings will be held quarterly

INPUTS

• University Strategy 2020-2025
• All thematic and enabling strategies with a focus on Learning and Teaching and Research Strategies
• College specific strategies and roadmaps
• School SPR risk analysis sections
• Audit and Risk Committee update
• Summary of changes made to action log and previous minutes
• Papers to be presented

OUTPUTS

• Action Log
• This meeting is not minuted

Substitutions are not permitted and there is no minimum quorum required as no formal decision making takes place