Risk Management
Assignment:
You have been employed as a Security Consultant Team Leader for a large, UK based NGO that conducts projects worldwide, often in remote and hostile environments.
Further details, a description of the organisation, its activities and its current Security Risk Management framework can be seen at Annex A and B.
Also see Annex D for Task 2.
The assignment can be broken down into 2 distinct tasks as follows;
(Task 1)
Identify situations when the organisation (Annex A & B) may find it helpful to use the services of a consultant, explaining the benefits this approach offers to the organisation, and how a consultant can add value.
Relate the importance of the consultant understanding the client’s needs and overcoming potential barriers when initiating change.
This section must:
Explain the key phases in the consultancy cycle and the information you would expect to gain at each stage.
Discuss the strategies used to overcome the potential risks and challenges you expect to face during the consultancy intervention.
See suggested evidence on page 3
Word Count: 1000-2000 words
(Task 2)
You have now been tasked to lead your team in a Security Consultancy Project Intervention. The full brief concerning the intervention has been passed to you from the client account manager and can be seen at Annex D. In short, the client has requested a change management program to align a security conscious culture throughout the organisation.
The strategy for implementing the culture change will be decided on further client meetings. At this stage you are tasked with creating a brief for your team that analyses the consultancy life cycle that best suits the project outlined in Annex D and evidences the deliverables to be expected at each stage.
This section must include:
A detailed analysis of differing consultancy cycle methods and a reasoning for your chosen method in a security consultancy intervention context.
Discuss your project plan: how will it be controlled and delivered
What systems do you intend to put in place to analyse information and data and what practices will you implement to manage potential risks to project fulfilment.
Evaluate the tools and techniques available to you and your team when implementing an intervention and delivering a solution to the client
Your proposal for delivering a potential solution to the client
You will deliver this as a brief to your team, this can be as a written document, ppt with supplementary notes or other method (e.g. recorded presentation with accompanying handout) so long as it meets the above requirements.
