Title: Risk & Assurance Graduate
Contract Type: 2-Year Fixed-Term Contract, Full-Time, 35 hours
Salary: £31,000 per annum
Grade: Graduate
Reporting Office: London, Stratford
Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)
Closing Date: Sunday 9th August 2026
Interview Date: 20th August 2026, in person interview
Please click here for the role profile - Risk & Assurance Graduate Role Profile.docx
Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more…
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.
NB: Successful applicants must have, and maintain, the right to work in the UK for the duration of the development programme
L&Q reserves the right to not progress applications for candidates who have had one unsuccessful application/interview processes with L&Q for the same or similar role in the previous 12 months.
L&Q reserve the right not to progress applications from candidates with 3 or more unsuccessful applications/interview processes with L&Q in the previous 24 months.
The L&Q Early Talent Programme has been designed to help you build the career you’ve been working towards. As a Risk & Assurance Graduate, you’ll join a values-led organisation where your ideas matter, your development is prioritised, and your work directly supports the delivery of our new corporate strategy.
Introduction:
Our Risk and Assurance team sits within L&Q’s Transformation and Change function. We help the organisation make informed, confident decisions by strengthening how risk is identified, understood, and managed across the business.
From supporting the corporate strategy to ensuring we’re prepared for unexpected events, our work plays a critical role in keeping L&Q resilient in an increasingly complex and fast-moving world.
Overview of the role:
This is an exciting opportunity for a curious and motivated graduate to start a career in risk management and organisational resilience.
You’ll work closely with experienced professionals to help embed L&Q’s Risk and Assurance Framework across the organisation, while also playing a key role in strengthening our approach to critical incident management and business continuity.
From day one, you’ll be contributing to meaningful work — analysing risks, supporting workshops, working with colleagues across the business, and helping ensure we’re ready to respond to challenges when they arise.
Alongside your day-to-day role, you’ll complete recognised qualifications in Enterprise Risk Management and Business Continuity, building both technical expertise and practical experience.
Join our Risk and Assurance Team at L&Q:
L&Q is one of the UK’s largest housing associations and providers of social and affordable homes. We house around 250,000 people primarily across Greater London and Greater Manchester. Our purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of.
This is your chance to step into a role where you can:
- Make a real impact early in your career by helping shape how a major organisation manages risk and responds to disruption
- Build specialist expertise in risk management and business continuity — highly sought-after skills
- Work across the organisation, collaborating with a wide range of teams and senior stakeholders
- Bring fresh thinking and challenge the status quo, helping us continuously improve
- You’ll join a supportive and experienced Risk and Assurance team of 5 which sits within the larger Transformation and Change directorate which leads on the Group’s large Transformation Portfolio – central to the delivery of the new 5-year corporate strategy.
If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply!
Your impact in the role:
In this role, you’ll:
- Support the embedding of L&Q’s Risk and Assurance Framework across the organisation
- Assist with risk workshops and risk reviews, helping teams identify and manage key risks
- Analyse risk, control and assurance information to identify trends, gaps and opportunities for improvement
- Contribute to horizon scanning and scenario analysis, helping us prepare for emerging risks
- Help strengthen our critical incident and business continuity planning, working with teams to ensure robust plans are in place
- Support the testing of business continuity and incident response plans, ensuring we are prepared for real-world events
- Maintain and improve risk management systems and records
- Build strong working relationships with colleagues across the business to support a proactive risk culture
Through your work, you’ll directly contribute to the delivery of L&Q’s corporate strategy and help ensure we remain resilient in the face of change.
What you'll bring:
- A Degree; would especially suit someone with a Business Administration, Analytics, Housing or Public Policy. (any discipline, though Business, Analytics, Housing or Public Policy are particularly relevant but not essential).
- Minimum qualification level – Maths and English Level 4 GCSE
- Strong analytical skills and a questioning mindset — able to interpret information and challenge assumptions.
- Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present information clearly
- A collaborative approach, and able to gain confidence to work with a range of stakeholders
- Good organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities
- A proactive, solutions-focused attitude and willingness to take ownership
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
Graduates
Successful applicants must have, and maintain, the right to work in the UK for the duration of the development programme.
If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email
[email protected]
About L&Q:
We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Our purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of.
250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.
People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values, which outline our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q – click here to read more.
At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do.
When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome. Find out more here.
Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.
Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!
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