Risk Management 2.0 for Granting Programs

One-day course from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Instructor: Colin Wiltshire

Cost:  $595 + HST
(includes training material and CD, certificate of participation, lunch, breakfast and refreshments) 

OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• Describe ‘Success Infrastructure’ in granting programs and the key inherent and external risks that may jeopardize project and program success;
• Describe a ‘risk management framework’ that enables more efficient application approval and project administration;
• Describe better practice methodology (Risk Factoring) that efficiently and effectively provides accurate and reliable risk information for decision-making across the granting life cycle with an emphasis on Achieve Risk Management

DATES

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Granting Managers and Officers who would like advance the risk maturity of their organization
• Granting Managers and officers who would like to acquire practical templates and tools for risk assessment and management

COURSE OUTLINE

Introductions, Objectives, Agenda

Review of Key Risk Management Concepts

• 2 Parts of Risk
• Future and Uncertainty
• Risk Assessment (RA) and Risk Factoring (RF)
• Weighting to Impact or Factors

Success Infrastructure and Key Risks in Granting Programs

• Components of Success Infrastructure
• Key Inherent and External Risks to Project and Program Success

Risk Management Framework & Integrated Model for Granting Programs

• Risk Management Framework (RMF)
  ● Program Governance – Defining Risk-based Approval
  ● Risk Tolerance Strategies (RTS) – Directing Risk-based Administration
   
• Integrated Model (IM)
  ● 8As Life Cycle
  ● RA and RF Methodologies Applied at 3 Levels and Across the 8As
   

Risk Factoring Methodology Models

• Rules & Tools
• Application Templates
• Managing the Risks
• Integrating Assessment Horizontally and Vertically
   

Building the Rules & Tools

• Categories, Factors, Weighting & Criteria
• Rating Schemes and Algorithms
• Flexibility Rules and RTS
• Rules & Tools Exercise
   

Achieve Risk management

• Focus on Achieve Risk Management in 4 of the 8As
• Factors which Predict Achieve Risk
• RTS for Achieve Risk
• Achieve Risk Management Exercise
   

Evaluation and Wrap-up