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The Government Security Function (GSF) oversees the delivery of protective security across Government. Our Mission is to enable Government to protect citizens and provide vital public services by understanding and managing security risks. We set the strategy and standards for Government Security, monitor departmental security performance, manage pan-government security incidents, support the delivery of key security capabilities and lead the Government Security Profession.

The Government Security Group (GSG) is the centre of the Security Function, based within the Cabinet Office. GSG is transforming the Government’s approach to protective security to ensure it is fit to meet the challenges of the digital age. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, dynamic team, with a breadth of stakeholders including in other Government departments, the National Technical Authorities and the Agencies, and to contribute to delivering improved security across Government. 

Job Description

The Threat, Incident Response and Coordination team sits within an award winning team in GSG to provide cross-government support, guidance and coordination to manage and mitigate security incidents and promote a shared understanding of threats as they apply to government.

We are looking for a Senior Executive Officer to lead incident response and coordination for significant security incidents across government. If you are passionate about working in partnership to manage and mitigate risk, then we’d like to hear from you.

As the Incident Response and Coordination Manager, you will develop partnerships both across government and with external partners that will help support and inform incident response policy and practice across government.

This role will:

• Work with stakeholders across HMG and externally to develop knowledge of the security landscape across HMG and support the coordination of response to significant security incidents.
• Lead on lessons learned exercises following incidents and support cross government incident response exercises to test planning and preparation. 

Key responsibilities

The role holder will work on all the areas listed below and will lead on the delivery of several (exact responsibilities will be divided across the team depending on skills and priority areas):

• Lead incident response and coordination of challenging and often sensitive security incidents, providing support to individual departments and across government where needed.
• Work with policy colleagues in GSG and elsewhere to develop incident management policy and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for specific incidents.
• Develop a programme of training and exercising for the management of cross government incidents and assist in its delivery.
• Develop relationships with other government departments and external stakeholders to inform incident response planning, and coordinate incident response activity across departments. 
• Work across government departments to implement a single data set for incident reporting to be shared with GSG and develop reports from analysis of the results to identify areas of risk, issues for improvement and provide recommendations. 
• Provide briefings on potential incidents and lessons learned.
• Line management and professional development of one HEO. 
• Deputising for G7 where appropriate.

Personal and Professional Development

If you are interested in the post and have relevant, transferable experience and skills, back yourself and apply. GSG is committed to supporting people’s personal and professional development and in providing training.  We will help you to develop your knowledge and skills and help you build a rewarding and challenging career in government security.

Key Skills:

Candidates should be able to demonstrate:

• Ability to lead, deliver through others, and work as part of a team.
• Strong written and verbal skills with the ability to communicate information clearly often at short notice.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work to tight deadlines.
• Organisational and time management skills for planning and delivery.
• Excellent interpersonal skills that create and maintain effective operational and strategic relationships.
• Ability to thrive in an environment that can fluctuate between fast-paced and steady state, balancing long-term projects with short-term, high energy responses. 
• Ability to review, analyse and present data, providing evidence-led observations and recommendations 
• Ability to think creatively and identify opportunities to improve processes.

Experience:

• Experience of working in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
• Experience of effective decision making, both tactical/operational and strategic. 
• Experience of identifying opportunities to improve processes, delivering and evaluating success.
• Experience of building stakeholder relationships to work effectively between departments/organisations.
• Experience of using data / evidence to identify trends and make recommendations.

Desirable:

• Experience of leading and coordinating incident response in challenging and sensitive areas.
• Experience of working in a security related or incident response environment.
• Experience in designing or running exercises.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions

Alongside your salary of £44,500, Cabinet Office contributes £11,181 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

Belfast, Birmingham, Bridgend, Bristol, Wakefield (Calder) , Chelmsford, Crawley, Dover, Exeter, Gartcosh, Gillingham (Kent), Heathrow, Leicester, London*, Normanton, Nottingham, Slough, Stevenage, Sunderland, Warrington, Kingston Upon Thames (Tolworth), Bedford (Wyboston) *For London based roles your contractual place of work will be Endeavour Square, Stratford. However, as that site will not be operational until early 2025 in the interim period you will be required to carry out your contractual duties from Spring Gardens, Vauxhall or such other reasonable location. As your contractual place of work is Endeavour Square, your move to this location in 2025 will not give rise to any entitlement to payments for travel time or costs under the Relocation and Excess Travel Policy.

The NCA has grown in size and complexity in recent years and it is vital that it maintains a security posture and capabilities to protect against existing, new and emerging threats.

The Integrated Protective Security Command (IPS) is responsible for securing the Agency to protect the public.

IPS safeguards the NCA from the full range of security threats that target the Agency, our officers and our assets, to enable the organisation to achieve its operational objectives, both domestically and overseas, with flexibility, agility and integrity. Its officers provide specialist security services to the Agency 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to mitigate security risks.

The NCA’S Operational Security Team works within the NCA’s Integrated Protective Security (IPS) command. Our role is to maintain relationships with all areas of NCA business, being operationally focused in providing independent and pragmatic security advice and guidance to enable the NCA to conduct its UK and overseas operations safely and securely helping to protect all NCA staff, its operations/investigations, assets, capabilities and reputation.

We are currently looking to recruit a Deputy Technical Operational Security Advisor (TOPSY) to join our team and welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates.

The Deputy Technical Operational Security Advisor will address operational security issues and matters at the outset. This will require a knowledge and skill set over and above that of an Operational Officer.

Technology is now at the forefront of tackling Serious and Organised Crime and its use is ever increasing as new capabilities and methodology are developed and deployed in support of operational teams. These capabilities and the methodology are bringing greater challenges in relation to operational security.

**To be considered, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role and achieve DV clearance within the first 12 months in post.**

Responsibilities

As a  Deputy Technical Operational Security Advisor you will:

• Have responsibility for the coordination of NCA Operational Security Advisors (OPSY), ensuring that the relevant technical knowledge is provided to protect the Agency.
• Provide a single point of contact for the OPSY, on matters of operational security that impact on the technical and digital developments and deployments in relation to tackling serious and organised crime.
• Coordinate operational security activity in these areas and to provide internal and external advice and liaise with the various partner agencies providing respective capabilities.
• Provide a point of expertise for all technical, digital and signals operational security advice.
• Have knowledge of technical, digital and signal equipment and capabilities. This includes an awareness of hardware, protocols, networking, digital forensics, computer security, encryption and software engineering.
• Maintain oversight of and coordinate significant technical and digital operational security issues.
• Build and maintain relationships with strategic partners to ensure a consistent approach is applied to the protection of capabilities, methodology and entities.
• Provide support to the Agency by providing or obtaining advice in relation to issues and best practice for matters of technical, digital and signals operational security. Assist in producing or reviewing policy.
• Attend national meetings to provide an input on operational security.
• Co-ordinate CPD for the OPSY Community in respect of advances in technical and digital development and deployments. They will provide relevant CPD days for the OPSYs where knowledge can be cascaded at lower level.

Please Note; This post will require travel to sites/meetings throughout the UK, including overnight stays as required.

Hold a full current driving licence.

The following qualifications/skills are essential to the role and proof will be required at interview:

HND qualifications or equivalent in a technical/scientific related discipline.

Please ensure the dates of any accreditations you are relying on, are entered on to the CV.
Should you progress to the assessment stage of the process, you will be required to provide a copy of the original certificate.
Failure to provide evidence at interview may result in your application not progressing to the next stage.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Good knowledge of legislation and policy in relation to law enforcement, defence or national security technical surveillance operations.
• Experience of assessing security threats and mitigating the associated risks.
• Proven experience of working in a covert technical operational environment.
• Proven experience of analysing and assessing information from a range of technical, digital and signals equipment from deployments for both intelligence and evidential gathering purposes.

Alongside your salary of £38,642, National Crime Agency contributes £10,433 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career with the Agency and wider Civil Service.

If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us as if you were a serving police officer. If you do remain an active member and subsequently return to a police force, you should be able to continue your membership there too.

All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:

• Civil Service pension scheme
• 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service
• Training and development opportunities
• Cycle2work scheme

We take the welfare of NCA officers very seriously. All staff have access to Occupational Health services and there are a number of staff representative groups. We also have a range of sporting and other activities on offer.

We can provide flexible working arrangements if the role in question is suitable. These include flexi-time, job sharing and compressed hours (working contracted hours over a shorter period).

*London and Birmingham. *For London based roles your contractual place of work will be Endeavour Square, Stratford. However, as that site will not be operational until early 2025 in the interim period you will be required to carry out your contractual duties from Spring Gardens, Vauxhall or such other reasonable location. As your contractual place of work is Endeavour Square, your move to this location in 2025 will not give rise to any entitlement to payments for travel time or costs under the Relocation and Excess Travel Policy.

The role will entail working collaboratively with both NCA and Home Office intelligence and investigation officers to tackle Organised Immigration Crime (OIC). The work ranges from detailed research and analysis of intelligence to fast-paced tactical support on operational deployments. Each intelligence team are responsible for receiving, enhancing and disseminating all source intelligence focused on tackling serious and organised crime affecting the UK.

Excellent decision making, communication and team working skills are required.  Successful candidates will need to engage with stakeholders and customers at all levels, developing strong working relationships and working in close collaboration with internal and external partners to identify opportunities which drive NCA and partnership activity in response to the highest harm threats.
Officers will require a degree of flexibility around working hours and applicants will be expected to participate in a paid on call roster to respond to the threat as necessary

We are looking to fill vacancies across the following four teams:

Joint Fusion Cell – Working directly alongside the Home Office Intelligence to generate and assess new intelligence leads, to prioritise and task further development across the OIC enforcement community

National Targeting Centre – Develops intelligence leads against Organised immigration crime groups that are the most high harm and risk to the UK.

Online Capabilities Centre – A new team which will look at innovative ways to disrupt OIC assisted by the use of online tools.

Alternative Disruptions Team – Provides intelligence support to the investigation team to achieve disruptive outcomes against facilitators of OIC.

You will be required to conduct intelligence development, research and analysis in support of the National Crime Agency’s Annual Plan, National Control Strategy and other identified priorities in the fight to cut serious and organised crime; focusing on tackling Organised Immigration Crime.

You will be required to carry out all-source data exploitation, analysis, delivery and dissemination of Intelligence product relating to serious and organised crime, in support of  operational, tactical and strategic objectives, through interaction with other NCA departments and teams, and also with external partners.

You will be required to support analytical teams with the tasking of Intelligence assets and collection of information.

**To be considered, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role and achieve DV STRAP clearance within the first 12 months in post. Applicants must be willing to undergo DV clearance and STRAP induction and be full UK Nationals or Dual Nationals, of whom one component is British may be considered on a case by case basis.**

Carry out research and/or gather intelligence in support of operational, tactical and strategic objectives, deploying on operations as appropriate;

Interact with customers and providers of intelligence through verbal and written dissemination or briefings, ensuring thorough understanding of intelligence requirements and effective communication of these to analytic teams and/or other stakeholders;

Proactively identify and exploit potential intelligence sources, in collaboration with specialist teams where necessary;

Request, support or coordinate the tasking of intelligence assets;

Carry out the gathering, handling, storage, utilisation and dissemination of intelligence in support of operational objectives, including exploitation of live intelligence sources and fusion with other data and analytical products, in accordance with relevant legislation, policies and procedures;

Draft and submit applications, as required, to carry out covert and other activity for the purpose of intelligence gathering.

The following qualifications/skills are essential to the role and proof will be required at interview:

IPP Intelligence Officer certification
or
Non-certificated IPP Intelligence Officer (G5/EO/PC) currently working towards this certificate as a substantive officer in an IPP aligned role (but not as an IOTP or ODP Officer)
or
Equivalent experience gained from performing Intelligence Officer functions either previously or currently

Please ensure the dates of any accreditations you are relying on, are entered on to the CV.
Should you progress to the assessment stage of the process, you will be required to provide a copy of the original certificate.
Failure to provide evidence at interview may result in your application not progressing to the next stage.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Knowledge of intelligence collection methods and techniques
• Knowledge of relevant legislation (e.g. CPIA, IPA) and its impact on the role and Agency activity
• Demonstrate experience in managing risk.

Alongside your salary of £34,672, National Crime Agency contributes £9,361 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career with the Agency and wider Civil Service.

If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us as if you were a serving police officer. If you do remain an active member and subsequently return to a police force, you should be able to continue your membership there too.

All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:

• Civil Service pension scheme
• 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service
• Training and development opportunities
• Cycle2work scheme

We take the welfare of NCA officers very seriously. All staff have access to Occupational Health services and there are a number of staff representative groups. We also have a range of sporting and other activities on offer.

We can provide flexible working arrangements if the role in question is suitable. These include flexi-time, job sharing and compressed hours (working contracted hours over a shorter period).

London*, Slough, Kingston-upon-Thames, Crawley, Gillingham (Kent), Heathrow, Dover with potential to travel to other NCA sites. *For London based roles your contractual place of work will be Endeavour Square, Stratford. However, as that site will not be operational until early 2025 in the interim period you will be required to carry out your contractual duties from Spring Gardens, Vauxhall or such other reasonable location. As your contractual place of work is Endeavour Square, your move to this location in 2025 will not give rise to any entitlement to payments for travel time or costs under the Relocation and Excess Travel Policy.

The NCA has grown in size and complexity in recent years and it is vital that it maintains a security posture and capabilities to protect against existing, new and emerging threats.

The Integrated Protective Security Command (IPS) is responsible for securing the Agency to protect the public. The IPS mission statement is:
“Delivering integrated protective security to build a resilient, high-trust Agency able to lead the UK’s fight to cut serious and organised crime.”

IPS safeguards the NCA from the full range of security threats that target the Agency, our officers and our assets, to enable the organisation to achieve its operational objectives, both domestically and overseas, with flexibility, agility and integrity. Its officers provide specialist security services to the Agency 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to mitigate security risks.

The NCA’S Operational Security Team works within the NCA’s Integrated Protective Security command. Our role is to maintain relationships with all NCA areas of business, being operationally focused in providing pragmatic operational security advice and guidance to enable the NCA to conduct its U.K and overseas operations safely and securely.

Our core role being to help protect all NCA staff, its operations/investigations, assets, capabilities and reputation.

We are currently looking to recruit a Deputy Operational Security Advisor to join our team to work under the Operational Security Adviser (OpSy), to help protect NCA operations, investigations, officers, assets, capability and reputation by providing impartial advice and guidance on operational security and risk management.

***To be considered, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role and achieve DV clearance within the first 12 months in post***

As a Deputy Operational Security Advisor your responsibilities will include:

Main responsibilities:

• Supporting the Operational Security advisors to advise Senior Managers, Senior Investigating Officers on operational security management, thus helping to protect NCA operations, investigations, officers, assets, capability and reputation by providing impartial advice and guidance on operational security and risk management.

• To identify and promulgate best practice and organisational learning through a ‘check and challenge’ process.

• Review security incidents and other organisational risks to assess and help minimise impact when appropriate.

• Support the Operational Security Advisor to conduct Personal Security Risk Assessments with the assistance of OSINT and PND.

• Draft full assurance reports on compliance and security related inspections.

Please Note: This post will require travel to sites/meetings throughout the UK, including overnight stays as required.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Background in law enforcement with experience in covert investigation techniques.
• Good understanding of relevant legislation affecting operational activity focused on Serious Organised Crime Groups.
• Good knowledge of a National Security Functions
• Experience of analysing and assessing information from a range of sources.

Alongside your salary of £38,642, National Crime Agency contributes £10,433 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career with the Agency and wider Civil Service.

If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us as if you were a serving police officer. If you do remain an active member and subsequently return to a police force, you should be able to continue your membership there too.

All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:

• Civil Service pension scheme
• 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service
• Training and development opportunities
• Cycle2work scheme

We take the welfare of NCA officers very seriously. All staff have access to Occupational Health services and there are a number of staff representative groups. We also have a range of sporting and other activities on offer.

We can provide flexible working arrangements if the role in question is suitable. These include flexi-time, job sharing and compressed hours (working contracted hours over a shorter period).

London*, Warrington – *For London based roles your contractual place of work will be Endeavour Square, Stratford. However, as that site will not be operational until early 2025 in the interim period you will be required to carry out your contractual duties from Spring Gardens, Vauxall or such other reasonable location. As your contractual place of work is Endeavour Square, your move to this location in 2025 will not give rise to any entitlement to payments for travel time or costs under the Relocation and Excess Travel Policy.

Intercept Operations is a key part of the NCA’s Intelligence Directorate.

Operating within the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 Intercept Operations officers target and intercept criminal communications. Officers apply their specialist skills to analyse the content of communications, identifying tactical and strategic intelligence which drives the Agency’s response.

Working collaboratively with NCA Investigations, other intelligence departments, UKIC and broader Law Enforcement partners, Intercept Operations are at the forefront of NCA operations tackling Serious and Organised Crime.

Intercept Operations (IO) Officers are responsible for the covert collection and analysis of criminal communications. The unique and critical insight provided by IO means that Officers are at the forefront of tacking the threat from Serious and Organised Crime, providing the intelligence obtained from intercepted communications to operational teams to effect arrests, the seizure of money, drugs and firearms and prevent loss of life.

Successful candidates will undertake a dedicated training programme to ensure they have the skills needed to operate effectively in this rewarding and dynamic environment.

• This is a designated post that is open to UK Nationals.
• IPP Accreditation or equivalent experience in a relevant role is desirable but not essential.
• All successful candidates must be able to attain DV clearance within 12 months.
• Your appointment as an TI officer of the National Crime Agency and continued employment is dependent on successful completion of the Pre-Training Assessment and a 10 week TI training programme (which is pass or fail).

***To be considered, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role and achieve DV clearance within the first 12 months in post.***

***All NCA officers must hold SC Enhanced upon entry as a minimum. To meet the National Security Vetting requirements for this role you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 out of the past 5 years. For DV clearance you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 5 out of the past 7 years. For more information please see the Candidate information Pack***

Responsibilities:

• Within the department specialist skilled Officers exploit intercepted communications to direct response to the highest harm criminals impacting the UK.
• The NCA’s pursuit of criminals operating upstream, overseas and online requires an intercept capability that can produce live-time tactical intelligence to operational teams. Officers apply their expert knowledge to intercepted product to produce timely tactical and strategic intelligence. This mission critical capability underpins operational activity, whether it is identifying and disseminating intelligence around a firearms, cash or drugs handover or an opportunity to identify a person of interest, Interceptors ensure that NCA operations are directed to achieve the greatest impact.
• Working alongside a number of the NCA’s other covert intelligence capabilities Officers play a pivotal role, drawing intelligence from a range of sources to determine the required response.
• This is a challenging but rewarding role unlike any other, the position afforded to Interceptors means you will gain an unparalleled insight and understanding of Serious Organised Crime. You can expect a varied and fulfilling career with exposure to all the threats that the NCA targets, no two days will ever be quite the same.
• As well as directly contributing to operational results you will also learn to manage high-pressure situations and apply your training to deliver the national Kidnap response, working with operational teams to recover hostages and arrest those responsible. You will also respond to threat to life situations, ensuring that whether as a result of a drug dispute or exploitation of trafficked migrants, life is preserved and the public is protected.
• Intercept Operations is an aptitude based role, our Pre-Training Assessment is designed to identify if you have the aptitude needed. As a result it does not matter what your background is, whilst IPP or PIP accreditation will give you a great starting point and valuable experience, our in house training team will ensure you have all the necessary skills to operate successfully as an Interceptor.
• As the nature of criminal communications and technology continues to develop the skills of Intercept Officers must also adapt. Significant focus is placed on the development of new ways to target and exploit content and any interest, skills or experience you have in data exploitation, programming or foreign languages will also give you a good basis from which to develop your skills as an Interceptor.
• Once in post successful candidates will undertake a 10 week Intercept Training Programme to develop your ability to interpret and manage intercepted product.
• The NCA is a 24/7 organisation, successful candidates will be required to work shifts. An early shift is 06:30 to 14:30 and late is 14:00 – 22:00 with a night shift 22:00-06:30. You are also required to work 1 weekend in 4. Requirement will be directed by your line manager.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Changing and Improving

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Effective communication to a wide range of stakeholders
• Application of understanding to solve problems
• Ability to analyse information from a number of sources

Alongside your salary of £34,672, National Crime Agency contributes £9,361 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career with the Agency and wider Civil Service.

If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us as if you were a serving police officer. If you do remain an active member and subsequently return to a police force, you should be able to continue your membership there too.

All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:

• Civil Service pension scheme
• 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service
• Training and development opportunities
• Cycle2work scheme

We take the welfare of NCA officers very seriously. All staff have access to Occupational Health services and there are a number of staff representative groups. We also have a range of sporting and other activities on offer.

We can provide flexible working arrangements if the role in question is suitable. These include flexi-time, job sharing and compressed hours (working contracted hours over a shorter period).

HM Naval base Clyde – RNAD Coulport

His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde (HMNB Clyde) is home to the United Kingdom’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, Astute Class Attack Submarines, Sandown Class Mine Hunter Vessels and 43 Cdo Royal Marines. It is an operational support and maintenance base, within the Navy Command TLB and comprises both Faslane and Coulport sites. HMNB Clyde’s primary purpose is to provide engineering and logistical support to the Royal Navy in maintaining Continuous at Sea Deterrent (CASD). This is achieved by ensuring at least one Vanguard Class submarine is on patrol at sea every day of the year.

RNAD Coulport is responsible for the storage, processing, maintenance and issue of the Trident Weapon System and the am-munitioning of all submarine-embarked tactical weapons.

HMNB Clyde will be the single operational home of the Submarine Service from 2020 and will become the United Kingdom’s Submarine Centre of Excellence. Creating this single integrated operating base is to ensure that the Royal Navy is able to deliver its operational commitments across all Defence Lines of Development from Scotland on an enduring basis.

This transition will provide excellent opportunities for commencing and developing exciting and challenging careers within the Civil Service across a broad range of functions and numerous skill sets in direct support of output delivery.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

As the Physical Security Officer, you will have the opportunity to:

1. Assist with physical security projects for the Nuclear Security Manager (NSM) and provide Subject matter expert (SME) support to other Base projects as the need arises.

2. Review all MoD Police Occurrence Reports, noting any trends in degradation or lapses in security.

3. To provide physical security advice on security aspects of Projects, so that required standards of security are addressed at planning, briefs, construction, handover, and maintained in subsequent operation.

4. In the absence of NSM, deliver comprehensive brief to Fleet Protection Group Royal Marines (FPGRM) prior to and during deployment.

5. In the absence of NSM attend all daily security briefings capturing all key Physical Security issues across RNAD Coulport and brief at the appropriate weekly meetings and any other security briefings as directed by the Deputy Nuclear Security Authority (Coulport) (DNSA(C)) and NSM.

6. Conduct initial investigations into all breaches of physical security, including preparation of subsequent reports.

7. Provide support to undertaking the Threat vulnerability Assessment Period Review (TVAPR) process.

8. Designated NSM Security Key Officer.

9. Conduct regular spot checks on the Physical Security Equipment across the RNAD Coulport estate (including in the Control Rooms), and areas of particular interest such as Armouries, in line with the Nuclear Self Assurance regime.

10. Review the state of security systems, including CCTV, PIDS and IDS daily and, where there are faults, work to remedy these and mitigate risks.

11. Prepare amendments to local security documentation.

12. In consultation with the Nuclear Security Manager, produce Operational Requirements for any projects at RNAD Coulport where Security is a stakeholder or DHNBS is the lead.

13. Develop and produce to a Security Asset Register for RNAD Coulport, capturing all Security Equipment, its maintainer, and any contractural details.

14. Act as Assistant Atomic Liaison Officer (A/ALO).

15. Provide cross-site support as directed by DNSA(C).

16. Conduct physical security briefings to visitors at RNAD Coulport.

17. Conduct any other Physical Security tasking as directed by NSM, DNSA(C) or NSA Asst Hd at HMNB Clyde

18. Contribute to the Security Assurance team’s Nuclear Self Assurance process at RNAD Coulport ensuring reports are written following assurance activities for the attention of DNSA(C).

19. Conduct Protective Security Assurance Visits as directed by DNSA and NSM.

20. Represent Clyde Security Organisationat meetings where Physical Security advice is required.

21. Compilation of statistics for Deputy Head Navel Base Security successes, opportunities, failures, threats (SOFT) report and daily stats for security system and defect reports.

22. In addition the post holder will undertake tasking as identified by NSM to ensure delivery of Departmental outputs.

The preferred candidate will be a security professional with working experience and application of Security policy and physical security measures. A self starter with the ability to work in a high pressured environment to tight deadlines, they should be able to think on their feet and make decisions with limited information. 
The successful candidate will be required to complete a variety of security related courses.

A full UK driving licence would be desirable.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Alongside your salary of £28,300, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,641 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Alongside your salary of £35,290, Ministry of Defence contributes £9,528 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service pension scheme provides.
As a Civil Servant, you will be part of a forward-Looking organisation with inclusive workplace policies, excellent career prospects, and a job that makes a difference. Navy Command prides itself on being a supportive employer and where possible encourages flexible working, helping you to maintain a great work/Life balance. Other benefits
for Navy Command Civil Servants include:
·    Competitive Salary
·    Opportunities for continuous personal and professional development
·    25 days paid annual leave rising by 1 day per completed year of service to a maximum of 30 days
·    9 Paid Public Holidays per year
·    Flexible Working Arrangements/Alternative Working Patterns
·    Generous Maternity and Paternity Leave Packages
·    On-site facilities (gymnasium, Ski Club, recreational shopping mall, café, messing facilities etc)
·    Free On-site car parking
·    Assisted Travel Scheme
This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances. Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not
be reimbursed.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on
those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
A separate Terms Of Reference review will be conducted which may result in changes to job taskings.

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – we may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.

Redford Barracks, Colinton Road, EDINBURGH, EH13 0PP

Join the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and have a future that matters: Be proud; Be challenged; Be unique.

Do you want to join the 2021 Government Security team of the year and be part of our Gold Standard security service?

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) provides high quality security services at approximately 100 MOD sites across Great Britain. The MGS has guarded the Defence Estate for over 25 years including high profile locations such as MOD Main Building in London and His Majesty’s Naval Bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde. We provide access control, military working dogs, control room operations and other security services. We play a vital role supporting the Defence Mission and work to protect the defence estate and personnel from crime, terrorism, espionage and sabotage threats.

The MGS is part of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and employs over 2,500 staff. MGS Officers are often the first point of contact with the MOD for employees, visitors and contractors and we pride ourselves on our professional, customer-focused culture.

All our Security Officers are required to have excellent customer service skills and must be willing to go above and beyond to support security operations across the defence estate. Due to the high profile and strategic locations of the sites we guard, it is essential our Security Officers have a strong work ethic, are able to work as part of a team, are observant to threats and are capable to challenge and de-escalate difficult situations if required. We also require our Security Officers to have good written and verbal communication skills. Our Officers must have resilience and remain positive and friendly in all weather conditions and on all occasions.

We provide our staff with a market leading salary, excellent sickness benefits, together with a defined benefit civil service pension. Free full uniform will be provided.

We are a growing organisation with opportunities for good quality staff to progress their security careers.

The MGS holds the Committed to Equality Gold Standard and we positively encourage applications from all under-represented communities and from all types of working backgrounds.

See more information about the MGS, please read the candidate pack and watch our Security Officer YouTube video https://youtu.be/nzSK9OPOoDI

About MGS

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) is a professionally qualified body of Civil Servants who provide unarmed guarding services at approximately 100 MOD sites across Great Britain. The MGS has guarded the Defence Estate for over 25 years including high profile locations such as MOD Main Building in London and His Majesty’s Naval Bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde. The MGS plays a vital role supporting the Defence Mission and works closely with its security partners

The MGS is part of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and  employs over 2,500 operational and support staff. The MGS is managed by a Head Office team, dispersed strategically around the country.

MGS officers are very often the first point of contact with the MOD for employees, visitors and contractors and we pride ourselves on a customer-focused culture, working to DIO’s Values as well as our own core values of honesty, integrity, professionalism and efficiency.

We are passionate about the services we deliver and work hard to keep pace with developments in the security industry, as we seek to be the unarmed  guarding provider of choice. The MGS holds the Committed to Equality Gold Standard and we positively encourage applications from all under-represented communities.

You can view our YouTube video to see more about our work 

Main Responsibilities

The key duties of a Security Officer are as follows.

Please note that these duties can vary from site to site.

• Controlling vehicular and pedestrian access and exit to/from site
• Issue of passes using site IT systems
• Reporting of environmental issues
• Issue and receipt of keys
• Searching of vehicles, baggage, personnel, buildings and open areas
• Traffic management
• Checking identity on site (ad hoc)
• Writing reports on breaches of security or defects and maintaining daily logs
• Referral of complaints
• Reporting MGS infrastructure defects
• Dealing with demonstrators and intruders as directed by those holding operational control
• Safeguarding classified information and material
• Cooperating with other security providers
• Collaborating with emergency services and invoking emergency procedures
• Operating and monitoring security systems; CCTV and alarms etc
• Operating and communicating effectively over the telephone and/or radio
• Reporting safety hazards and accidents in accordance with current instructions
• Carrying out, if required, initial action at the scene of any incident
• Other tasks commensurate with the grade

Travel Requirements

Where close area working arrangements are in place staff may be required to attend other sites within their travel to work area (one hour from their home) on a detached duty basis.

Desirable Experience & Skills

A background, qualification or interest in the delivery of site security and/or customer service will be an advantage.
Full UK Driving Licence is desirable.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing

Alongside your salary of £27,050, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,425 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We enable our people to work at the right place, with the right people, at the right time.

We believe that if we look after our people, they will be passionate about delivering great things for our customers.

The MOD Discover My Benefits page lists the full set of benefits. Some of the many benefits you will receive include:

• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Free Uniform
• 25 days (215 hours) annual leave rising (1 day per year, 8.6 hours) to 30 days (258) upon completion of 5 years’ service
• Ability to roll over up to 10 days (86 hours) annual leave per year
• Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to for volunteer military or emergency service reserve commitments
• Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year
• Enhanced parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your wellbeing
• Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club, Gym and / or site shops

Learning & Development

• Professional and Personal Development of skills
• Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning, some free or paid by DIO
• Ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by DIO

Employment Hours

48 hours gross (including breaks) You will normally work 48 hours per week including a daily meal break (43 hours net). This will normally be 4 x 12-hour shifts or 5 x 9.6-hour shifts between the hours of 0600hrs and 2200hrs over the 7-day period, as stipulated by the shift pattern agreed at the Unit depending on site requirements. This will include being rostered in a flexible manner (termed a flexible week) within the shift roster. During the flexible week, the working days and shifts will routinely be stipulated in advance but may be changed at short notice (this should be no less than 48 hours).

Medical

MGS applicants are required to attend a medical appointment to undertake a colour perception test.

Allowances

This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

About DIO

DIO is passionate about ensuring that we are a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We host a diverse range of talent where everyone feels valued and supported enabling our people to thrive, bring greater creativity and innovation to achieve higher organisational performance. We are committed to be an equal opportunities employer and creating a culture where everyone can bring their whole self to work and individuality is truly appreciated.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our 6 staff networks covering Disability, Faith and Belief, Gender Equality, LGBTQI+, Race, Social Mobility and 3 networks dealing with employee wellbeing and support: Speak Safe Volunteers, Mental Health First Aiders and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisers.

Our staff, future and current will be guided by the 4 Cs and we encourage you to be curious and continuously strive for improvement, collaborative in an inclusive culture, ambitious and resilient and committed to Defence, empowered and able to challenge so you can play a key part in shaping the direction of our organisation.

DIO commits to offer its employees the following experience:
• Meaningful, purposeful work
• The ability to learn and grow
• The right opportunities and resources
• To care about your wellbeing
• To feel valued and included

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) is the estate expert for Defence, supporting the armed forces to enable military capability by planning, building, maintaining, and servicing infrastructure.

Our responsibilities include:
• Plan and deliver major capital projects and lifecycle refurbishment
• Provide utilities services
• Manage soft facilities management (i.e. cleaning and catering)
• Provide a safe place to train
• Allocate Service Families Accommodation
• Procure and manage routine maintenance and reactive repair
• Provide a central register of asset information to advise infrastructure planning
• Act as steward of the Defence estate
• Provide the unarmed guarding service

DGC Feltham, Elmwood Av, Feltham, TW13 7AH

Join the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and have a future that matters: Be proud; Be challenged; Be unique.

Do you want to join the 2021 Government Security team of the year and be part of our Gold Standard security service?

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) provides high quality security services at approximately 100 MOD sites across Great Britain. The MGS has guarded the Defence Estate for over 25 years including high profile locations such as MOD Main Building in London and His Majesty’s Naval Bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde. We provide access control, military working dogs, control room operations and other security services. We play a vital role supporting the Defence Mission and work to protect the defence estate and personnel from crime, terrorism, espionage and sabotage threats.

The MGS is part of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and employs over 2,500 staff. MGS Officers are often the first point of contact with the MOD for employees, visitors and contractors and we pride ourselves on our professional, customer-focused culture.

All our Security Officers are required to have excellent customer service skills and must be willing to go above and beyond to support security operations across the defence estate. Due to the high profile and strategic locations of the sites we guard, it is essential our Security Officers have a strong work ethic, are able to work as part of a team, are observant to threats and are capable to challenge and de-escalate difficult situations if required. We also require our Security Officers to have good written and verbal communication skills. Our Officers must have resilience and remain positive and friendly in all weather conditions and on all occasions.

We provide our staff with a market leading salary, excellent sickness benefits, together with a defined benefit civil service pension. Free full uniform will be provided.

We are a growing organisation with opportunities for good quality staff to progress their security careers.

The MGS holds the Committed to Equality Gold Standard and we positively encourage applications from all under-represented communities and from all types of working backgrounds.

See more information about the MGS, please read the candidate pack and watch our Security Officer YouTube video https://youtu.be/nzSK9OPOoDI

About MGS

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) is a professionally qualified body of Civil Servants who provide unarmed guarding services at approximately 100 MOD sites across Great Britain. The MGS has guarded the Defence Estate for over 25 years including high profile locations such as MOD Main Building in London and His Majesty’s Naval Bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde. The MGS plays a vital role supporting the Defence Mission and works closely with its security partners

The MGS is part of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and  employs over 2,500 operational and support staff. The MGS is managed by a Head Office team, dispersed strategically around the country.

MGS officers are very often the first point of contact with the MOD for employees, visitors and contractors and we pride ourselves on a customer-focused culture, working to DIO’s Values as well as our own core values of honesty, integrity, professionalism and efficiency.

We are passionate about the services we deliver and work hard to keep pace with developments in the security industry, as we seek to be the unarmed  guarding provider of choice. The MGS holds the Committed to Equality Gold Standard and we positively encourage applications from all under-represented communities.

You can view our YouTube video to see more about our work.

Main Responsibilities

The key duties of a Security Officer are as follows.

Please note that these duties can vary from site to site.

• Controlling vehicular and pedestrian access and exit to/from site
• Issue of passes using site IT systems
• Reporting of environmental issues
• Issue and receipt of keys
• Patrolling on foot and in a vehicle
• Searching of vehicles, baggage, personnel, buildings and open areas
• Escorting visitors
• Traffic management
• Checking identity on site (ad hoc)
• Writing reports on breaches of security or defects and maintaining daily logs
• Referral of complaints
• Reporting MGS infrastructure defects
• Dealing with demonstrators and intruders as directed by those holding operational control
• Safeguarding classified information and material
• Cooperating with other security providers
• Collaborating with emergency services and invoking emergency procedures
• Operating and monitoring security systems; CCTV and alarms etc
• Operating and communicating effectively over the telephone and/or radio
• Reporting safety hazards and accidents in accordance with current instructions
• Carrying out, if required, initial action at the scene of any incident
• Other tasks commensurate with the grade

Travel Requirements

Where close area working arrangements are in place staff may be required to attend other sites within their travel to work area (one hour from their home) on a detached duty basis.

Desirable Experience & Skills

A background, qualification or interest in the delivery of site security and/or customer service will be an advantage.

Full UK Driving Licence is desirable.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing

Alongside your salary of £27,050, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,425 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We enable our people to work at the right place, with the right people, at the right time.

We believe that if we look after our people, they will be passionate about delivering great things for our customers.

The MOD Discover My Benefits page lists the full set of benefits. Some of the many benefits you will receive include:

• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Free Uniform
• 25 days (215 hours) annual leave rising (1 day per year, 8.6 hours) to 30 days (258) upon completion of 5 years’ service
• Ability to roll over up to 10 days (86 hours) annual leave per year
• Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to for volunteer military or emergency service reserve commitments
• Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year
• Enhanced parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your wellbeing
• Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club, Gym and / or site shops

Learning & Development

• Professional and Personal Development of skills
• Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning, some free or paid by DIO
• Ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by DIO

Employment Hours

You will normally work 48 hours per week including a daily meal break (43 hours net). This will normally be 4 x 12-hour shifts or 5 x 9.6-hour shifts between the hours of 0600hrs and 2200hrs over the 7-day period, as stipulated by the shift pattern agreed at the Unit depending on site requirements. This will include being rostered in a flexible manner (termed a flexible week) within the shift roster. During the flexible week, the working days and shifts will routinely be stipulated in advance but may be changed at short notice (this should be no less than 48 hours).

Medical

MGS applicants are required to attend a medical appointment to undertake a colour perception test.

Allowances

This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

About DIO

DIO is passionate about ensuring that we are a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We host a diverse range of talent where everyone feels valued and supported enabling our people to thrive, bring greater creativity and innovation to achieve higher organisational performance. We are committed to be an equal opportunities employer and creating a culture where everyone can bring their whole self to work and individuality is truly appreciated.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our 6 staff networks covering Disability, Faith and Belief, Gender Equality, LGBTQI+, Race, Social Mobility and 3 networks dealing with employee wellbeing and support: Speak Safe Volunteers, Mental Health First Aiders and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisers.

Our staff, future and current will be guided by the 4 Cs and we encourage you to be curious and continuously strive for improvement, collaborative in an inclusive culture, ambitious and resilient and committed to Defence, empowered and able to challenge so you can play a key part in shaping the direction of our organisation.

DIO commits to offer its employees the following experience:

• Meaningful, purposeful work
• The ability to learn and grow
• The right opportunities and resources
• To care about your wellbeing
• To feel valued and included

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) is the estate expert for Defence, supporting the armed forces to enable military capability by planning, building, maintaining, and servicing infrastructure.

Our responsibilities include:

• Plan and deliver major capital projects and lifecycle refurbishment
• Provide utilities services
• Manage soft facilities management (i.e. cleaning and catering)
• Provide a safe place to train
• Allocate Service Families Accommodation
• Procure and manage routine maintenance and reactive repair
• Provide a central register of asset information to advise infrastructure planning
• Act as steward of the Defence estate
• Provide the unarmed guarding service

HMS Raleigh, Trevol Road, Torpoint, PL11 2PD

Join the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and have a future that matters: Be proud; Be challenged; Be unique. 

DIO is passionate about ensuring that we are a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We host a diverse range of talent where everyone feels valued and supported enabling our people to thrive, bring greater creativity and innovation to achieve higher organisational performance. We are committed to be an equal opportunities employer and creating a culture where everyone can bring their whole self to work and individuality is truly appreciated.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our 6 staff networks covering Disability, Faith and Belief, Gender Equality, LGBTQI+, Race, Social Mobility and 3 networks dealing with employee wellbeing and support: Speak Safe Volunteers, Mental Health First Aiders and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisers.

Our staff, future and current will be guided by the 4 Cs and we encourage you to be curious and continuously strive for improvement, collaborative in an inclusive culture, ambitious and resilient and committedto Defence, empowered and able to challenge so you can play a key part in shaping the direction of our organisation.

DIO commits to offer its employees the following experience:

• Meaningful, purposeful work
• The ability to learn and grow
• The right opportunities and resources
• To care about your wellbeing
• To feel valued and included

About DIO:

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) is the estate expert for Defence, supporting the armed forces to enable military capability by planning, building, maintaining, and servicing infrastructure.

We employ approximately 4,900 staff from a very diverse range of professions, and we work across the world; in Germany, Cyprus and the Falkland Islands, Norway, Poland, Kenya, Belize, Nepal and Oman.

The Challenge

Do you want to join the 2021 Government Security team of the year and be part of our Gold Standard security service?

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) provides high quality security services at approximately 100 MOD sites across Great Britain. The MGS has guarded the Defence Estate for over 25 years including high profile locations such as MOD Main Building in London and His Majesty’s Naval Bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde. We provide access control, military working dogs, control room operations and other security services. We play a vital role supporting the Defence Mission and work to protect the defence estate and personnel from crime, terrorism, espionage and sabotage threats.

The MGS is part of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and employs over 2,500 staff. MGS Officers are often the first point of contact with the MOD for employees, visitors and contractors and we pride ourselves on our professional, customer-focused culture.

All our Security Officers are required to have excellent customer service skills and must be willing to go above and beyond to support security operations across the defence estate. Due to the high profile and strategic locations of the sites we guard, it is essential our Security Officers have a strong work ethic, are able to work as part of a team, are observant to threats and are capable to challenge and de-escalate difficult situations if required. We also require our Security Officers to have good written and verbal communication skills. Our Officers must have resilience and remain positive and friendly in all weather conditions and on all occasions.

We provide our staff with a market leading salary, excellent sickness benefits, together with a defined benefit civil service pension. Free full uniform will be provided.

We are a growing organisation with opportunities for good quality staff to progress their security careers.

The MGS holds the Committed to Equality Gold Standard and we positively encourage applications from all under-represented communities and from all types of working backgrounds.

See more information about the MGS, please read the candidate pack and watch our Security Officer YouTube video https://youtu.be/nzSK9OPOoDI 

About MGS:

The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) is a professionally qualified body of Civil Servants who provide unarmed guarding services at approximately 100 MOD sites across Great Britain. The MGS has guarded the Defence Estate for over 25 years including high profile locations such as MOD Main Building in London and His Majesty’s Naval Bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde. The MGS plays a vital role supporting the Defence Mission and works closely with its security partners

The MGS is part of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and  employs over 2,500 operational and support staff. The MGS is managed by a Head Office team, dispersed strategically around the country.

MGS officers are very often the first point of contact with the MOD for employees, visitors and contractors and we pride ourselves on a customer-focused culture, working to DIO’s Values as well as our own core values of honesty, integrity, professionalism and efficiency.

We are passionate about the services we deliver and work hard to keep pace with developments in the security industry, as we seek to be the unarmed  guarding provider of choice. The MGS holds the Committed to Equality Gold Standard and we positively encourage applications from all under-represented communities.

Main Responsibilities:

The key duties of a Security Officer are as follows.

Please note that these duties can vary from site to site.

• Controlling vehicular and pedestrian access and exit to/from site
• Issue of passes using site IT systems
• Reporting of environmental issues
• Issue and receipt of keys
• Patrolling on foot and in a vehicle
• Searching of vehicles, baggage, personnel, buildings and open areas
• Escorting visitors
• Traffic management
• Checking identity on site (ad hoc)
• Writing reports on breaches of security or defects and maintaining daily logs
• Referral of complaints
• Reporting MGS infrastructure defects
• Dealing with demonstrators and intruders as directed by those holding operational control
• Safeguarding classified information and material
• Cooperating with other security providers
• Collaborating with emergency services and invoking emergency procedures
• Operating and monitoring security systems; CCTV and alarms etc
• Operating and communicating effectively over the telephone and/or radio
• Reporting safety hazards and accidents in accordance with current instructions
• Carrying out, if required, initial action at the scene of any incident
• Other tasks commensurate with the grade

Travel Requirements:

Where close area working arrangements are in place staff may be required to attend other sites within their travel to work area (one hour from their home) on a detached duty basis.

Desirable Experience & Skills:

A background, qualification or interest in the delivery of site security and/or customer service will be an advantage.

Full UK driving licence due to post requirements.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing

Alongside your salary of £27,050, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,303 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We enable our people to work at the right place, with the right people, at the right time.

We believe that if we look after our people, they will be passionate about delivering great things for our customers.

The MOD Discover My Benefits page lists the full set of benefits. Some of the many benefits you will receive include:

• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Free Uniform
• 25 days (215 hours) annual leave rising (1 day per year, 8.6 hours) to 30 days (258) upon completion of 5 years’ service
• Ability to roll over up to 10 days (86 hours) annual leave per year
• Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to for volunteer military or emergency service reserve commitments
• Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year
• Enhanced parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your wellbeing
• Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club, Gym and / or site shops

Learning & Development:

• Professional and Personal Development of skills
• Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning, some free or paid by DIO
• Ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by DIO

This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Employment Hours:

You will normally work 48hours per week including a daily meal break (43 hours net). This will normally be 4 x 12-hour shifts or 5 x 9.6-hour shifts between the hours of 0600hrs and 2200hrs over the 7-day period, as stipulated by the shift pattern agreed at the Unit depending on site requirements. This will include being rostered in a flexible manner (termed a flexible week) within the shift roster. During the flexible week, the working days and shifts will routinely be stipulated in advance but may be changed at short notice (this should be no less that 48 hours)

Medical:

MGS applicants are required to attend a medical appointment to undertake a colour perception test#

Swansea

At the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), we encourage applications from everyone, particularly groups currently underrepresented in our workforce. We pride ourselves on the positive impact diversity has and promote inclusivity and equality of opportunity for all. Our recruitment process is anonymised, which means that your name, date of birth and other personal details will not be seen by the sift panel.

Maximum salary amount includes a Digitec allowance of up to £13,500. The final salary and any allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview. 

Do you have a passion for Ethical Hacking and Security Engineering?

Do you have experience of tools and methodologies used to perform Penetration Tests and Technical Security Analysis?

Have you got excellent problem-solving skills with great attention to detail?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

This is a hands-on role, carrying out Technical Vulnerability Assessments, Penetration Testing, and IT Health Checking activities on applications and infrastructure and helping to define and implement best practice in support of our Cyber Security and IT Services (ITS) strategy.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has an extensive change program, and you will engage in a strategic program of security testing covering multiple IT domains and environments, you’ll also be testing new software and infrastructure projects to ensure that DVLA remains responsive and adaptable to the changing threat environment, business requirements and Central Government policies.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Apply and extend your knowledge of Ethical Hacking to cover a wide range of new technologies.
• Work as part of a team to deliver Vulnerability Management and Penetration Testing services
  
• Undertake Security Assessment Testing both internally and remotely across a number of security domains.
• Develop your own skills and broaden your experience.
• Be actively engaged in the major change program being implemented at DVLA.
• Develop and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

This s a fast-paced and varied role. Our opportunity will offer you the challenge you are looking for, to build on your professional experience and development whilst working within DVLA premises without the need to travel to other locations.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead complex information systems to understand and prioritise actions on Cyber Security risks, audit requirements and data value, and provide specialist or complex guidance to vulnerability management teams and external senior stakeholders.
• Lead the development and implementation of multiple vulnerability assessments and enterprise-wide scanning strategies across multiple complex environments, while leading in prioritising those vulnerabilities through a risk-based approach.
• Lead the triage of vulnerabilities, ensuring mitigation measures are implemented, and oversee the life cycle of vulnerability management for a set of assets, providing tailored specialist or complex advice on ways to improve control mechanisms and mitigate risks.
• Lead senior stakeholder engagement across government to create strategic plans for managing vulnerabilities and remediation activities.
• Ensure organisation-specific vulnerability management policies, procedures and guidelines are aligned with organisational objectives and risk appetite.

For further information about the role please see the attached Role Profile.

If you do not already hold the professional qualifications listed on the Role Profile, you must be willing to work towards these once in post. 

This role currently sits within a Market Force Led (MFL) capability-based pay framework and your basic salary could increase/decrease based on the outcomes of an annual capability assessment.  View details of the MFL pay framework policy and principles

Additional Information  

Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement, for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 36 hours per week.

This role will be based in Swansea, and we will be operating a hybrid working model that allows you to work between home and on-site giving you greater flexibility about where and when you work, subject to business needs and this also allows for ongoing support, development, and collaboration with colleagues. 

Therefore, the expectation is that you will spend a minimum of 60% of your working time based at your principal workplace (DVLA). We would encourage you to discuss the working arrangements for this role with us during the recruitment process. 

You will come to us with experience of the following:

• Extensive knowledge of Cyber Security
• Resource Management Experience
• Demonstrable experience of managing an IT Vulnerability Management or Ethical Hacking function
• Significant experience deploying and utilising Vulnerability Management Tooling in a large scale and mission critical Enterprise. Extensive IT Health Check and Vulnerability Management experience

You will have excellent organisational skills and be able to prioritise a busy workload. You take great pride in your work and your attention to detail is second to none. You will be flexible, confidently responding to changing priorities.

You are a committed team player with the ability to work on your own initiative and under pressure.

We strive to ensure that DVLA is a great place to work where everybody can be their true self, be treated with dignity and respect, and according to their individual needs. We have a number of staff network groups run by staff to support their colleagues. 

Working for the DVLA Digital Team

At the DVLA our work matters. We’re at the forefront of digital within government, providing new and improved services that are reliable, easy to use and offer value for money for our customers. With over 50 million driver records and over 40 million vehicle records, the opportunity to work at this scale is unrivalled across the region. Our services generate billions in revenue and make a difference to the lives of 9 out of 10 households in the UK.

If you would like to read more about the great opportunities with the DVLA Digital Team then click here.

Our people are transforming our digital services, head over to our DVLA Digital Services Blog to read about what we have been up to.

Due to the evolving nature of the business, vacancies can become available at any time. Therefore, this campaign may create a reserve list to fulfil demand if it arises which will be held for a period of 12 months. 

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Government Security Framework – Penetration Testing (Practitioner)
• Government Security Framework – Legal and regulatory environment and compliance (Awareness)

• Best in class learning and development tailored to your role  
• An environment with flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance  
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues  
• Generous employer contribution of at least 26.6%, depending on rate of salary and chosen pension scheme 
• Digital communities with clear career frameworks 
• On-site gym plus personal training available 
• On-site nursery, restaurants and coffee bar  
• 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 each year (up to 30) 
• Free parking  
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave 

Visit our careers website or to find out more about the great opportunities and benefits of working at DVLA.