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Public Sector Risk OKR Tracker Template

Track risk mitigation coverage, high-priority risk reduction, remediation time, and residual exposure in one quarterly OKR template.

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OKR Tracker

Public Sector Risk OKR Tracker

Operations · Compliance

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Overall Score

O1

Extend risk mitigation coverage and register discipline

43%
KR1.1On Track

Increase share of identified risks with active mitigation plans from 54% to 88%

Owner

Head of Risk Management

Target

88% risks with mitigation ( from 54%)

Progress

64%
KR1.2At Risk

Increase share of high-priority risks reduced to acceptable level from 42% to 75%

Owner

Enterprise Risk Officer

Target

75% high-priority risks reduced ( from 42%)

Progress

46%
KR1.3Off Track

Increase risk register review completion rate from 58% to 92%

Owner

Risk Register Coordinator

Target

92% register reviewed ( from 58%)

Progress

20%
O2

Accelerate remediation and assess new initiatives

47%
KR2.1On Track

Reduce overdue risk mitigation actions from 48 to 15

Owner

Risk Treatment Manager

Target

15 overdue actions ( from 48)

Progress

62%
KR2.2At Risk

Increase share of major initiatives with completed risk assessments from 50% to 90%

Owner

Project Risk Analyst

Target

90% initiatives assessed ( from 50%)

Progress

40%
KR2.3At Risk

Reduce average risk remediation time from 45 to 20 business days

Owner

Risk Remediation Lead

Target

20 business days ( from 45)

Progress

38%
O3

Lower residual exposure and build resilience

48%
KR3.1On Track

Reduce overall residual risk exposure score from 68 to 40

Owner

Chief Risk Officer

Target

40 residual exposure score ( from 68)

Progress

67%
KR3.2On Track

Increase share of business continuity plans tested annually from 38% to 85%

Owner

Business Continuity Manager

Target

85% BCPs tested ( from 38%)

Progress

60%
KR3.3Off Track

Increase share of staff completing risk awareness training from 60% to 92%

Owner

Risk Culture & Training Lead

Target

92% risk training complete ( from 60%)

Progress

18%
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Six steps that turn your goals into scored, visible outcomes every quarter.

  1. Create your OKRs

    Set objectives and key results at corporate, department, team, and individual levels. Profit.co's AI Authoring drafts high-quality OKRs in seconds, ready for you to refine.

  2. Align goals across every team

    Cascade corporate OKRs down to departments, teams, and individuals. The alignment view shows every owner exactly how their key results contribute to the company's priorities.

  3. Assign owners and automate check-ins

    Give every key result an owner and a check-in frequency. Automated reminders prompt owners to update progress, status, and comments, so nothing slips between reviews.

  4. Track progress with live dashboards

    Heatmaps, confidence scores, and status charts show progress at a glance. Switch between eight OKR views, from Gantt to hierarchy, to suit every stakeholder's needs.

  5. Review and course-correct mid-quarter

    Confidence-based statuses flag at-risk key results automatically. AI Summaries turn check-ins into concise review notes, so you can decide what to accelerate, escalate, or rework.

  6. Reflect and reset

    Answer reflection questions at quarter-end to capture what worked well. Then reset each key result for next quarter: continue, modify, or complete and close it.

Who is this for

Government risk management, enterprise risk, and business continuity leaders accountable for mitigation coverage, remediation speed, and residual exposure reduction.

  • Head of Risk Management

    Owns overall mitigation coverage and sets the quarterly risk reduction agenda across the organization's risk register.

  • Enterprise Risk Officer

    Owns high-priority risk reduction and drives treatment of the exposures with the greatest potential impact on the agency.

  • Risk Register Coordinator

    Owns risk register review completion and keeps the register current, accurate, and actively maintained each quarter.

  • Risk Treatment Manager

    Owns overdue mitigation actions and ensures agreed risk treatments are completed within their planned timelines.

  • Business Continuity Manager

    Owns business continuity plan testing and ensures the agency can maintain critical services through disruption.

  • Chief Risk Officer

    Owns the residual exposure score and reports the organization's overall risk position to leadership and the risk committee.

Why teams use this template

Owned goals, measurable targets, and progress every stakeholder can see.

  • Move risks from logged to actively mitigated.

    Risks are often identified and recorded but never given an active mitigation plan or owner. Making the share of risks with active mitigation a KR owned by a Head of Risk Management ensures the register drives treatment rather than just documenting exposure.

  • Give overdue mitigation actions a hard target.

    Mitigation actions slip past their due dates because overdue counts are rarely tracked as an owned metric. Making overdue mitigation actions a KR with a Risk Treatment Manager as owner creates the pressure needed to keep risk treatment on schedule.

  • Track residual exposure as a single, falling number.

    Residual risk — what remains after mitigation — is the truest measure of risk position, yet it is seldom expressed as one tracked figure. Making residual exposure score a KR with a Chief Risk Officer as owner gives leadership a clear, quarter-over-quarter measure of whether the agency is genuinely getting safer.

  • Prove continuity plans work by testing them.

    Business continuity plans that are written but never tested provide false assurance. Making the share of BCPs tested annually a KR with a Business Continuity Manager as owner ensures resilience is demonstrated, not just documented, before a real disruption tests it.

How to use this template

Three steps to go from download to a filled-in plan for your team.

  1. Review the filled example (Sheet 1)

    Walk through three pre-filled objectives and nine key results with realistic targets, owners, progress scores, and lifecycle statuses. Use it as a reference before entering your own data.

  2. Fill in the blank template (Sheet 2)

    Add your department and quarter. Write your three objectives and nine key results, giving every KR an owner, a baseline, and a target.

  3. Track progress in the Excel tracker

    Enter the latest value in the Actual column each week. Progress and Lifecycle Status calculate automatically, and the Overall OKR Score updates in real time.

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Frequently asked questions

A public sector risk OKR is a quarterly framework that sets measurable targets for how effectively a government agency identifies, mitigates, and reduces its risks. The Objective is a qualitative goal — such as extending mitigation coverage or lowering residual exposure — and the Key Results are the specific metrics that define success: mitigation coverage, high-priority risk reduction, overdue mitigation actions, remediation time, and residual exposure score. It turns the risk register from a static document into an actively managed quarterly commitment with named owners.

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