Risk Specialist
We are at the heart of Ireland’s energy transition, connecting, operating and transforming the electricity grid to support a low carbon, renewable future. We are building talented teams that tackle real world challenges every day and help us to achieve our goal to prepare the grid to carry up to 80% of Ireland’s electricity from renewable sources.
We are proud to be a certified Great Place to Work, recognised for our culture built on trust, collaboration and inclusion. At EirGrid you will find supportive teams, opportunities to grow and meaningful work. We also offer secure employment with a range of flexible and family friendly working policies to support your life and wellbeing.
If you are ready to make an impact and grow your career in a purpose-led organisation, your journey starts here.
The Opportunity
The Risk Specialist plays a key role in supporting the delivery and continuous enhancement of EirGrid’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework. This role involves working across business units to identify, assess, monitor, and report risks that may impact the organisation’s ability to meet its objectives. The Risk Specialist also contributes to strategic and operational risk analysis, supports risk systems and data quality, and helps ensure that risk insights are embedded in key decision-making processes. This position is central to maintaining regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and informed risk-based planning in a highly dynamic and regulated energy environment.
Key Responsibilities
Risk Management Framework and Processes
We're dedicated to diversity and inclusion at EirGrid. We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and the importance of a supportive culture for all our people to achieve their potential. Our diversity and inclusion networks have been designed to create an inclusive culture that enables our people to feel a sense of belonging at work.
As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process
We are proud to be a certified Great Place to Work, recognised for our culture built on trust, collaboration and inclusion. At EirGrid you will find supportive teams, opportunities to grow and meaningful work. We also offer secure employment with a range of flexible and family friendly working policies to support your life and wellbeing.
If you are ready to make an impact and grow your career in a purpose-led organisation, your journey starts here.
The Opportunity
The Risk Specialist plays a key role in supporting the delivery and continuous enhancement of EirGrid’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework. This role involves working across business units to identify, assess, monitor, and report risks that may impact the organisation’s ability to meet its objectives. The Risk Specialist also contributes to strategic and operational risk analysis, supports risk systems and data quality, and helps ensure that risk insights are embedded in key decision-making processes. This position is central to maintaining regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and informed risk-based planning in a highly dynamic and regulated energy environment.
Key Responsibilities
Risk Management Framework and Processes
- Support the application of EirGrid’s ERM framework across the organisation, ensuring consistency in risk identification, assessment, and treatment.
- Facilitate risk workshops and reviews with business units to maintain up-to-date risk registers and identify emerging risks.
- Assist in the development and periodic review of risk policies, procedures, and guidance documents.
- Promote the integration of risk thinking into strategic initiatives, operational planning, and project management.
- Analyse risk data to produce actionable insights and contribute to the preparation of risk reports for senior management, the Executive Team, and the Audit and Risk Committee.
- Monitor trends and support analysis and testing for key business risks (e.g. energy security, data governance, regulatory change).
- Track and report on the effectiveness of risk mitigation actions and controls.
- Ensure alignment of risk reporting with corporate performance, compliance, and strate-gic planning processes.
- Support the design, implementation, and ongoing optimisation of governance, risk and compliance system(s), ensuring they are capable of managing GRC data and reporting.
- Support system enhancements and ensure data structures enable effective risk tracking, aggregation, and reporting.
- Maintain the integrity and accuracy of data within EirGrid’s risk management system or platform.
- Develop dashboards and visualisations to improve the communication of risk insights across the organisation.
- Ensure risks are consistently categorised, scored, and aligned with the organisation’s risk categorisation/taxonomy.
- Monitor and escalate significant risk exposures and trends.
- Engage with key stakeholders across all levels to raise awareness of enterprise risk and improve risk literacy.
- Support the development and delivery of risk training materials and awareness cam-paigns.
- Act as a trusted advisor to business units on risk matters, encouraging proactive risk management.
- Identify opportunities to improve risk tools, methodologies, and reporting practices.
- Benchmark EirGrid’s risk practices against industry standards and contribute to the adoption of best practices.
- Participate in cross-functional projects and working groups to support enterprise-wide risk-related initiatives.
- Minimum of 3–6 years of experience in risk management.
- Qualified to degree level or professional qualification in a relevant discipline.
- Experience in enhancing, implementing and/or overseeing risk management and business resilience frameworks, programmes and processes.
- Skilled in stakeholder management and influencing at all levels, while maintaining strong credibility and relationships.
- Excellent presentation and communications skills, verbal and written.
- Ability to take information and present it to stakeholders in a non-complex manner
- Ability to multi-task and prioritise under pressure of deadlines, whilst working independently.
- Prior experience working in the energy industry and/or a regulated environment is helpful, but not essential.
We're dedicated to diversity and inclusion at EirGrid. We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and the importance of a supportive culture for all our people to achieve their potential. Our diversity and inclusion networks have been designed to create an inclusive culture that enables our people to feel a sense of belonging at work.
As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process