Managing decisions and risks
Managing decisions and risks involves using risk-based approaches to make decisions, resolve challenges and guide others through complexity.
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
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Closest ESCO skills
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Role levels that expect this skill
| Role level | Role | Band | Expected level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant project manager | Project manager | 5 | Awareness |
| Project manager | Project manager | 6 | Working |
| Senior project manager | Project manager | 7 | Practitioner |
| Lead project manager | Project manager | 8a | Practitioner |
| Head of project management | Project manager | 8b | Expert |