Illustrative Reference profiles for a generic digital health care organization, not official job descriptions. About this reference.

Managing decisions and risks

Managing decisions and risks involves using risk-based approaches to make decisions, resolve challenges and guide others through complexity.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

This skill level is not defined.

2. Working

You can:

  • identify technical disputes and describe them in ways that are relevant both to direct peers and to local stakeholders
  • generate multiple solutions to a problem and test them
  • work collaboratively while recommending decisions and the reasoning behind them
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • work with consequential or complex risks
  • build consensus between services or independent stakeholders
  • lead others to make good design decisions
  • apply different risk methodologies in proportion to the risk
4. Expert

You can:

  • make and justify decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity
  • build consensus between organisations (private or public) or highly independent and diverse stakeholders
  • be trusted by senior risk owners as an expert in security
  • apply risk methodologies at the most complex levels of risk
  • guide others in applying risk methodologies in proportion to the risk

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Assistant project managerProject manager5Awareness
Project managerProject manager6Working
Senior project managerProject manager7Practitioner
Lead project managerProject manager8aPractitioner
Head of project managementProject manager8bExpert