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Dstl Portsdown West, Fareham, PO17 6AD or Dstl Porton Down, Salisbury, SP4 0JQ

At Dstl we protect lives. We take innovative Science and Technology (S&T) and use it to keep the country safe.

Dstl Digital provides a variety of business services which are diverse and complex in nature, and not all are standard in their support arrangements. To deliver great service experiences to our users, Digital aims to provide services to known and accepted service levels, meaning the details of the end-to-end operational support model should be designed up-front. This is essential to achieving standardisation, consistency and cost effectiveness in future. This opportunity will allow you to shape a growing capability within Dstl. You will influence the direction of our future operation in a unique and exciting setting which not only meets the day to day organisational needs for Dstl but responds to a growing portfolio of innovative Digital commitments as well.

The Lead Security Assurance Co- Ordinator (SAC) role is a key role in facilitating the accreditation process, and ensures Dstl to comply with the Government-mandated Accreditation process.

In order to comply with the Government-mandated Accreditation process, and where the intention is to provide an Information & Communications Technology (ICT) system to process protectively marked or business critical information, a project or business team will invite the assistance of an expert Information Assurance (IA) advisor. The SAC provides the vital interface between the Accreditor, the supplier, the project team and the end user community, ensuring that all aspects of security are delivered throughout the project lifecycle.

The employment of the SAC enables project managers to oversee the wider issues of the project; project costs, delivery dates, user satisfaction, etc., without having to worry about liaison with security regulators (Accreditors), production of security documents, changes to security policies, and the associated list of tasks or fact-finding processes that could otherwise be performed by the SAC.

Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution.

We particularly welcome female and ethnic minority applicants and those from the LGBTQI community, as they are under-represented within Dstl at these levels.

In this role:

The SAC advises, monitors and reports on security matters relating to the projects and systems and may chair the SWG on behalf of the Project Manager. The SACs main tasks are to:

• Ensure appropriate action is taken to enable and maintain accreditation.
• Provide advice on security policy and technical solutions.
• Ensure that National and MoD Cryptosecurity and security policy is being correctly applied.
• Monitor security considerations that are being incorporated and report on them to the SWG.
• Establish the Terms of Reference for the SWG.
• Organise SWG meetings around a status list of requirements for each accreditation or re-accreditation covering COMSEC, COMPUSEC, TEMPEST, Key management and P3 (Physical, Procedural & Personnel) measures.
• Highlight and report unresolved security difficulties to the SWG.
• Ensure that the configuration management procedures meet the criteria for the required level of assurance and that Cryptonet Controlling functions are in place where necessary.
• Liaise with the National Security Authorities advisors, the Defence Cryptosecurity Authority and TLB Principal Security Advisors (PSyA) and advise the SWG as appropriate.
• Ensure that the security deliverables are available as and when required by the project plan.
• Responsible for the production of all security deliverables (e.g. security documentation) and ensure that they are fit for purpose (to the satisfaction of the Accreditor).
• Staff and coordinate the input to Sy Ops and any P3 measures required.
• Arrange with Accreditor for the issue of Interim and/or full accreditation certificates as required by stages of the project.
• Co-ordinates the Project Cryptographic plan.
• Ensure that all Project security related risks, as identified by the Accreditor and/or SWG, are promptly listed on the Projects Risk Register and reviewed at each SWG meeting.
• Ensure that a Project Information Risk Owner has been identified.
• Co-ordinate across other Dstl divisions, building a network with divisional SACs.

Dstl has adopted the MOD’s Project Delivery Capability Framework. Full details of the role descriptions and technical competencies can be downloaded from the following web site.

Leadership

As a leader in Defence you will help shape, role model and bring to life the ‘One Defence’ mindset that will enable us to deliver our vision and strategic objectives. Your leadership style must be inspiring, confident and empowering. Working at every level of our organisation to break down silos, unite teams and create a culture that is trusting, collaborative, innovative, diverse and inclusive. Enabling us to deliver with pace and agility through the skills, commitment and empowerment of our employees and military colleagues.

We are looking for someone who has: 

• Overall established technical knowledge/understanding of electronic, network and information system security measures.
• A good working knowledge of configuration management practices for Information Systems and must be aware of the principles of Risk Manager.

Technical skills

SAC support is to deliver: accredited networks that shall be available for experimentation, research and development; timely and effective security advice and support of users, project staff, System Manager; accurate and up-to-date accreditation documentation; use of internal project’s shared file storage areas and reporting processes.

Skills

Essential

• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work to demanding timescales.
• Stakeholder management.

Important Information

Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.

This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.

Please see full job description at the bottom of the page

Suitable qualifications and/or professional memberships e.g. CISSP/BCS/ISO27001

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

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Seeing the Big Picture

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

• Please explain your understanding of what technical skills are needed in the SAC role?
• Please explain what is involved in an Information Technology Health Check?

We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form:

• Please explain what is involved in an Information Technology Health Check?

Alongside your salary of £44,667, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory contributes £12,060 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Benefits 

Dstl’s full range of great benefits can be found in the information pack which includes:

• Financial: An excellent pension scheme starting from 26% employer contribution (find out more here). In Year Rewarding Achievement bonuses and thank you vouchers. Rental deposit scheme and cycle to work scheme.

• Flexible working: Options include alternative working patterns such as; compressed hours (e.g. working a 4 day week/ 9 day fortnight), job shares and annualised hours (agreed number of hours per annum paid monthly i.e. working term-time only).

• Working hours: Flexibility around your working day (e.g. start time, finish time). Ability to bank hours in a 12 month reference period including the ability to accrue and use 3 days per calendar month.

• Where you work: Depending on your role, blended working may be available including remote working to suit you and your team. This can be discussed at interview.

• Annual leave: 25 days pro rata (rising to 30 after 5 years) plus 8 public holidays with the ability to buy/sell 5 additional days per annum.

• Family: Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks with full pay, an additional 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid

• Learning and Development: Dstl encourages and supports charterships, accreditations and provides employees access to fully funded apprenticeships up to level 7 (Masters Degree). Dstl will pay for 2 memberships with relevant bodies/institutions. Employees also have access to Civil Service Learning.

• Facilities: Onsite parking, EV Charging points, restaurants, cafés and gyms.

Folkestone – Martello House

Home Office Intelligence brings together a number of existing teams involved in the collection and analysis of border and immigration related intelligence. It delivers Intelligence Collection, Development, Analysis, Targeting (Data Analytics) and Watchlisting capabilities within the Home Office and to its partners across Government and Law Enforcement. Learn more on the HO Intelligence careers page.

The role of the Joint Debriefing Team (JDT) is to gather intelligence and evidence for the purpose of identifying offenders and their methods to support the prosecution and/or disruption of those who perpetrate organised immigration crime. The focus is aimed at those engaged in people smuggling and human trafficking into and across the EU as well as within the UK. Information gathered is also used to assist operational and strategic planning across multiple law enforcement teams in the UK and the EU. Information gathered is also used to assist operational and strategic planning across the Home Office and other law enforcement partners.

The team has the capability to “hot task” high priority debriefings to take place within 24 hours of an event which may result in occasions where shifts change at short notice. Therefore, applicants will need to be flexible.

JDT intelligence debriefing activity requires the successful candidates to be flexible and dedicated in their approach – with a determined focus to ensure the JDT meets Home Office Intelligence strategic objectives. This role is highly mobile, with officers expected to attend different locations to conduct debriefing activity and not solely based in an office. Officers are expected to be mobile and flexible in covering other areas when business needs demand in response to priority tasking. Officers are posted to specific locations, but the role requires very frequent travel to other debriefing locations within that county or geographical regions. This can include overnight stays away, or extended shifts as well as working at the juxtapose controls in France, or supporting operational deployments in Belgium.

Responsibilities of the JDT include:

• Responding to significant events on a regional and national level – including joint operations and urgent deployments (as directed by senior managers).
• Conducting in-depth and confidential interviews – completing witness statements where necessary.
• Undertaking research as necessary, accurately recording the information obtained, converting it to intelligence and disseminating it to appropriate law enforcement agencies.
• Gathering intelligence as directed by the team leader to deliver again Home Office priorities relating to Organised Immigration Crime.
• Identifying individuals causing harm to our communities who commit organised immigration crime as well as other types of criminality.
• Be aware of safeguarding, the identifiers which are used to recognise potential victims of trafficking and how the National Referral Mechanism works.
• Recognise offences, offenders and refer as appropriate.
• Managing and improving performance including through the creation and maintenance of accurate and up to date performance and activity records.
• Participating in relevant Intelligence Meetings.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Ensuring debriefs are completed in a timely manner
• Prioritising workloads in line with current tasks and identified intelligence gaps.
• Maintaining an awareness of current intelligence requirements, use initiative and sound judgement to identify opportunities and self-task to fulfil generic or specific intelligence gaps.
• Ensuring internal (including operational, casework and policy) and external partner engagement is effective, taking every opportunity to develop both new and existing relationships to improve the quality of referrals.
• Ensuring that intelligence gaps and emerging trends are quickly and accurately reported to the Intelligence Manager to inform strategic and operational threat assessments Supporting the Intelligence Manager at operational planning and other meetings.
• Keeping the Intelligence Manager informed of operational activity and performance.
• Drafting reports and summaries to the required standard.
• Establishing, developing and managing stakeholder relationships to develop intelligence gathering opportunities.
• Providing daily/weekly updates as required/directed.
• Acting on tasks from line management.
• Inputting intelligence reports on relevant systems in an agreed time frame.
• Supporting and work alongside regional intelligence teams, the Police, NCA and Criminal and Financial Investigations when required.

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate experience of either working in a law enforcement environment, (or intelligence gathering and other occupations), where in-depth interviewing was conducted to establish facts or obtain information; or where you have experience of gathering information for research or analysis.
• Previous experience of working in a law enforcement or investigative role – either in law enforcement, other government department or private sector.
• Ability to develop and maintain good stakeholder relationships.
• Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload.
• Ability to work alone and use initiative.
• Ability to use Microsoft tools such as Word, Excel etc.
• Current valid passport/travel document for entry to any EU country.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of immigration IT systems or Police IT Systems.
• Experience of working on high performing teams.

Full valid UK (manual) drivers license

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

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

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Communicating and Influencing

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Bramcote, Gamecock Barracks, CV11 6QN Joint Services Adventutous Sail Training Centre (JSASTC), Haslar Road Gosport, PO12 2AQ Abbey Wood, Bristol, BS34 8JH Thorney Island, Emsworth, Baker Bks, Portsmouth, PO10 8DH

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 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 £30,000, Ministry of Defence contributes £8,100 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 hours) 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

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

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 (including breaks) This is a shift working position. The successful candidate will be expected to work nights, weekends, bank holidays etc. The exact shift pattern will be explained in full during the interview. 12 hour days, 12 hour nights to be explained at interview

Medical

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

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.

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.

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

Whitehall, London

We are looking for candidates who have wide-ranging experience in performing, facilitating and quality assuring rigorous, structured analysis. They will be passionate about raising analytical standards across the profession of intelligence analysis and will demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively to lead and deliver large cross-agency projects.

The Senior Analytical Tradecraft Officer’s role is to advise, support and challenge intelligence analysts tasked with assessing complex issues of national security. Working as part of the team supporting the Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (PHIA), based in the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO), the successful candidate will have a leading role in developing and leading the application of analytical tradecraft in all-source intelligence assessment.

The Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) primarily supports the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), the National Security Council (NSC), the Prime Minister and other key decision-makers by providing authoritative, robust all-source intelligence assessment on a vast range of national security and foreign policy priorities.

Our work covers, and goes beyond, ‘traditional’ national security topics such as geopolitical issues and threats to British interests. We apply a national security lens to issues such as emerging technology, economic and health security, climate change and horizon scanning (for example, identifying and monitoring countries at risk of instability).

You can read more about working for the JIO and PHIA in the information pack attached at the bottom of this advert.

The Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (PHIA) leads the Intelligence Analysis Profession across government, providing a central function to drive coherence, collaboration and capability development. PHIA is supported by a team that sits within the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) and has a broad remit covering analytical tradecraft/standards, community collaboration, and analyst career pathways.

The post holder will be a subject matter expert within the JIO for analytical tradecraft. They will provide advice and support to analysts in the JIO and the wider intelligence assessment community on a daily basis, helping them tackle the most complex analytical challenges throughout the lifecycle of intelligence assessments.

Advising analysts on the design of analytical workshops, including the selection of appropriate analytical techniques or approaches, will be a key responsibility of the post holder. They will be expected to regularly facilitate analytical workshops for the JIO, and at times for other government departments. 

The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate flexibility and respond to priorities set by the intelligence assessment community leadership. The role will have a particular responsibility within PHIA to support the development and application of best practice in intelligence assessment. This will include by:

• Leading community projects and work programmes in support of the aims of the PHIA-led analytical tradecraft group, reporting to the Intelligence Analysis Profession Board and the Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment. This will include directing the activities of volunteers from across the intelligence analysis profession.
• Consulting for the JIO, and other assessment bodies and government departments, on analytical practice, methods and approaches.
• Contributing to the challenge and product review processes for the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and other intelligence assessment bodies.
• Managing the development of analytical tradecraft tools and techniques and tradecraft guidance to the intelligence assessment community. This will involve considerable collaboration across HMG, with overseas partners, as well as academia and industry.
• Supporting the development and quality assurance of current and future training for analysts by advising the Intelligence Assessment Academy development team.

You may have the opportunity to teach some tradecraft elements of the Assessment Academy’s courses.

The ideal candidate should have:

• Experience working in all-source intelligence analysis or a clear demonstration of how your analytical expertise can be transferred to the intelligence environment.
• Experience selecting and applying a range of analytical tools, techniques and processes to quantitative and qualitative datasets.
• Excellent communication and networking skills, including dealing confidently with senior staff.
• Strong organisational skills in order to effectively manage multiple competing priorities.
• Strong facilitation skills. 

We particularly welcome applications from those with experience across some or all of the following:

• Knowledge of the UK intelligence community, in particular the range of analytical products and how they are constructed.
• Experience developing tools, techniques and methods.
• Experience of facilitating analytical workshops and/or delivering training.
• Experience delivering cross-departmental projects.

We invest in upskilling our team members to enable them to thrive once they start working with us. As such, if you don’t quite match these desirable skills, don’t let it put you off applying as we will equip the successful candidate with them once you are in post. The application process will seek to gauge potential just as much as current performance.

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

• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service

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

• Analysis, Tradecraft and Assessment (Proficient)

Alongside your salary of £44,500, Cabinet Office contributes £12,015 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Annual salary increases will depend upon individual performance and contribution to the organisation’s success. In addition, there will be the opportunity to earn performance related bonuses.

Pension: There is a choice of excellent pension schemes. More information about pension provisions can be found at www.civilservice.gov.uk/pensions

Flexible Working: Flexible working including job-share arrangements may be considered for this role.

Leave allowances: 25 days’ paid leave per annum rising to 30 days after five years’ service. In addition, full-time staff receive eight public holidays and the King’s Birthday privilege day as well as competitive maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave.

Probation: Staff new to the Civil Service will be required to serve a six-month probationary period.

Location: The post will be based in Westminster, London. No relocation costs will be available. This role may be performed as part of a hybrid working pattern with regular remote working from home.

Crisis working: As the JIO and PHIA are at the heart of national security function for the UK, there are occasionally times where we need to respond to incidents of crisis or critical importance. Staff in any role may be asked to work extended or anti-social hours with little or no notice on such occasions.

Equality and Diversity: The Cabinet Office is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all staff. We will not discriminate on grounds of gender, gender identity, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, those with caring responsibilities, part time workers or any other factor irrelevant to a person’s work. We encourage a diverse workforce and aim to provide a working environment where all staff at all levels are valued and respected, and where discrimination, bullying, promotion of negative stereotyping and harassment are not tolerated.

Civil Service Code: All civil servants are subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Code which details Civil Service values, standards of behaviour, rights and responsibilities. Go to http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk for more information.

Darlington, London, Manchester

The responsibilities for the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology for 2023 are as follows: 

• Positioning the UK at the forefront of global scientific and technological advancement 
• Driving innovations that change lives and sustain economic growth 
• Delivering talent programmes, physical and digital infrastructure and regulation to support our economy, security and public services 
• R&D funding   

For 2023, our priorities are: 

• Optimise public R&D investment to support areas of relative UK strength and increase the level of private R&D to make our economy the most innovative in the world. 
• Promote a diverse research and innovation system that connects discovery to new companies, growth and jobs – including by delivering world-class physical and digital infrastructure (such as gigabit broadband), making the UK the best place to start and grow a technology business and developing and attracting top talent. 
• Put our public services – including the NHS and schools – at the forefront of innovation, championing new ways of working and the development of in-house STEM capability to improve outcomes for people. 
• Strengthen international collaboration on science and technology in line with the Integrated Review, and ensure our researchers are able to continue to work with leading scientists in Europe and around the world. 
• Deliver key legislative and regulatory reforms to drive competition and promote innovation, including the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill and our pro-innovation approach to regulating AI. 
• Pass the remaining stages of the reformed Online Safety Bill to keep British people, especially children, safe online. 

Our Inclusive Environment  

We are building an inclusive culture to make the Department a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.  

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive. 

We actively welcome applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusion. We will fully support candidates with a disability or long-term condition who require adjustments in our recruitment process. 

Find Out More 

We regularly run events where you can find out more about the department and tips for the application process. You can sign up for upcoming events here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/department-for-science-innovation-and-technology-68197049923 

You can also follow our LinkedIn Careers Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/dsitcareers/   

We live in a data-driven world.  This yields benefits and opportunities, many of which are set out in the National Data Strategy.  Nonetheless, with opportunity comes risk.

Data infrastructure and security policy sits at the centre of the debate on how to balance the benefits created by the data economy, with the challenges this poses to national and economic security.

Our vision is to keep the UK safe and protected by establishing safeguards to minimise national security threats posed to and by data; and minimise the impacts of service disruption. All the while, supporting the growth of the UK’s thriving data infrastructure sector and giving greater confidence to unlocking the power of data to drive innovation and growth.

Alongside long-term policy-making, we also address immediate risks and issues for the sector, such as national security threats and recent challenges such as COVID and energy resilience.  The overarching outcome from this exciting area of policy work is to establish the government framework needed to anticipate, prevent and respond to threats associated with data and data infrastructure in an expert, targeted and proportionate way.

Once in post, successful candidates may be expected to travel to other DSIT locations where there is a business need.

Key responsibilities

Role 1 – State Threats to Data

Data is a valuable asset, which makes it a valuable target for those that would seek to do the UK harm.  The successful candidate would work on a number of policy areas seeking to address State Threats to Data.  As a national security policy role, this is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to the security of the UK. 

The candidate can expect to:

•    Drive work to articulate, prioritise and assess security risks and what government can do to address them, including policy development of immediate short-term solutions to these threats. 

•    Ensure the team is aligned strategically with departmental and cross-government approaches to data and national security, including feeding into and leading on high-profile governance boards.

•    Respond to high-profile and fast-moving live case work, working closely with other government departments and agencies to assess risks and develop policy mitigations.

•    Engaging and working with industry, experts and international partners to drive government policy.

•    Drafting correspondence, briefings, submissions and high profile publications for a range of audiences including senior officials and Ministers.

Please note, the successful candidate would be expected to obtain DV clearance once in post, which ordinarily requires you to have been resident in the UK for the last 10 years. 

Role 2 – Data Infrastructure, Security and Resilience

Ensuring the data infrastructure sector is secure and resilient is essential in keeping the UK safe and contributing to economic growth.  The successful candidate would work on a number of policy areas seeking to secure the sector, developing policy to establish national risk management of the data infrastructure sectoring continuing work following publication of the recent Call for Views. 

The successful candidate can expect to:

•    Development of policy positions to manage data infrastructure risks; leading or collaborating on a spectrum of policy and project products,  e.g. briefings, submissions, policy instructions, publication.

•    Working with industry and experts to understand and assess the sector landscape and existing standards.

•    Research of current policy levers available to HMG, as well as developing, delivering, and implementing new approaches.

•    Ensuring any approaches are proportionate, targeted and future-proof and account for the wider digital and regulatory landscape.

•    Supporting industry with issues and incidents as necessary.

Essential requirements

•    An interest in and/or knowledge of the data landscape and national security.

•    Ability to work at pace, leading and owning tasks, working with autonomy and initiative, as well as collaborating as part of a team.

•    Ability to analyse and use a range of relevant, credible information to support decisions and present practical recommendations.

•    Experience of policy development and/or running a project over time, meeting key milestones/deadlines and keeping seniors appraised.

•    Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders.

•    A willingness to undergo vetting to at least SC level.

Desirable

•    Experience of working in the data, cyber security or technology space, either in industry or government.

•    Experience working in national security and/or at higher classifications.

•    Project and programme management experience and/or qualifications.

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

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

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Seeing the Big Picture

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an average employer contribution of 27%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
• A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.

Blackpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sheffield

Working for the Department for Work & Pensions Security Business Intelligence and Management team, you will work at the very centre of the department’s security function, and you will be working not just across the security function, but across all areas of DWP including Finance, Commercials and HR and occasionally with other Government Departments such as Cabinet Office and HMRC, in a fast paced, busy and challenging environment. 

The team develops and provides all aspects Security Business Intelligence and Management including, developing, improving and maintaining the Security Assessment Framework, including regular reporting to the S&DP Senior Leadership Team, provision of secretariat duties to the high-level departmental Security Boards, and high quality security information and management information.  The Team is also responsible for support to the Chief Security Officer and the Senior Leadership Team. Budgetary management, maintaining the Security and Data Protection (S&DP) resource baseline, providing fast and accurate responses to Parliamentary Questions (PQs) and Freedom of Information requests (FOIs), internal communications, business plans.

DWP security are looking for a highly motivated person.

The Business Intelligence and Management Lead will play a central role in supporting the Head of Security Business Intelligence Management, and senior managers across Security and wider DWP. The two separate leads will help to ensure the continued growth, development, streamlining, maintenance and delivery of;

1. The Business Intelligence function, such as the Security Assessment Framework (SAF), Security Management Information (MI), and Cyber Assessment Framework return.
2. The new and evolving DWP Security Operating Model outcomes, and
3. The DWP Security Management Information Dashboard

You will be responsible for leading and influencing strategic work within Security & Data Protection (S&DP).

This will involve taking ownership of specific areas of DWP Business Intelligence and Management structures and being responsible for the continuous improvement of those specific areas and communicating and instilling a culture of excellence and co-operation across the function.

The Business Intelligence function, such as the Security Assessment Framework (SAF), Security Management Information(MI), and includes but is not limited to; actively managing and leading on; the improvement of the SAF, the development and implementation of PowerBI reports, and an active role in the completion of cross-government returns such as the Departmental Security Health Check.

Responsibilities

• You will oversee the improvement and development of Security Assessment Framework (SAF), and other Security management information that feeds the dashboard and any other reports with Security Maturity information such as the Departmental Security Health Check (DSHC) and Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF).
• You will continuously build and maintain good working relationships with Security and Data Protection (S&DP) senior leaders, across DWP and Other Government Departments (OGDs).
• The role supports Security and Data Protection (S&DP) senior leadership team and Chief Security Officer (CSO) with a multitude of ad-hoc asks.
• You will gain assurance that the Security Governance Boards’ secretariat record significant security risk decisions as required.
• You will be responsible for the line management of team members.

Essential Criteria

• Background and knowledge of security.
• Proven strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to engage effectively across multiple organisations operating, within a complex multi-partner environment.
• Have demonstrable experience of providing strong leadership, direction, and decision making, with the proven ability to steer senior conversations.
• Experience of identifying, collating, interpreting and explaining often complex information to inform future activity.
• Commitment to personal and professional development, Someone who drives their own development journey and acts on feedback to improve performance.
• Motivating and managing a team.

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Communicating and Influencing

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Hybrid Working

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home.

This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account.

If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Westminster

Head Office provides the Department of State function and political and military strategic direction for the MOD. It is accommodated in Main Building, MOD’s flagship headquarters. This is an exciting new role within the Director Head Office business area specifically within the Safety Security and Business Resilience (SSBR) business unit.  Its main role is to oversee the safety, security, and resilience of MOD Main Building, ensuring that staff within MOD Main Building can continue to deliver critical Defence outputs in all foreseeable circumstances.  

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to lead the Head Office Cyber Security team.  This is a new, exciting high-profile role working across the whole of Defence. The office is a busy, fun, and supportive environment covering a range of security and resilience delivery functions.  You will have LM responsibility for an SEO of which recruitment is underway.

As part of your role, you will be required to develop a Cyber Security Strategy for Head Office, aligning with Defence’s Cyber Security Strategy and Resilience programme.  You will lead the work to understand Head Office’s Cyber security and resilience risk to ensure the effective of proposed mitigations against an evolving cyber threat.  You will promote best practice, promote and advise on secure by design ensuring Head Office business units are aligned and comply with MOD policy.  You will lead on the implementation of Cyber Compliance Framework activities driving forward improvements as required.  Head Office ac f  You will liaise with Directorate of Cyber, Risk and Governance, Defence Digital and other key stakeholders to ensure we are coherent with wider Departmental work / objectives.  You will represent the Principal Security Advisor at departmental meetings including the Cyber Resilience Oversight Board as appropriate. 

Due to the nature of the role, you may be required to support the Principal Security Advisor and Security and Resilience Ops lead help to manage security (cyber) or resilience incidents.   This may include managing crises that disrupt or have the potential to disrupt business in MB.  You will have a wider awareness of the changing priorities and responsibilities and be able to work flexibly distinguishing the preferable from the critical.  As this is a new team, you will have an opportunity to shape the future size and shape and responsibilities of the team as the Head Office Security team as the organisation considers its priorities over the next 5 years.

You may be required to take part on an on-call rota, sharing the responsibility of providing out of hours advice to Main Building users and stakeholders with colleagues across the Safety, Security and Business Resilience team for which an allowance is payable.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

• Leading work to understand Head Office cyber security and resilience risk to ensure understanding and effectiveness of proposed mitigations against the evolving cyber threat.
• Ensuring Head Office conducts cyber risk assessments and risk management in accordance with defence standards and in line with applicable regulations, legislation and policy.
• Reporting on Head Office cyber security and resilience risk, to enable senior stakeholders to make informed decisions.
• Ensuring Head Office implements Defence / HMG cyber security guidance, policy and tools.
• Overseeing the analysis of mitigation plans for Head Office cyber risks, building knowledge of common themes and identifying gaps
• Building a cyber risk management community of interest and using it to promote cyber risk knowledge sharing.
• Providing advice and guidance to Head Office senior management, business units and key stakeholders on cyber security related risks
• Leading and overseeing Head Office activity in response to cyber incidents and rapidly emerging vulnerabilities.
• Lead the implementation of the Cyber Compliance Framework and the Cyber Risk Management Framework across Head Office.
• Working closely with the Head Office Security and Resilience Team to reduce seams between physical, personal, technical and cyber security.
• Line managing the Head Office cyber security team – line manager for SEO, CSO for HEO post.

Maintaining professional competence.

• Self-starters who are comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment, able to set goals, create opportunities, win support for them, and see them through.
• People with excellent interpersonal skills, able to express themselves clearly and engage with a diverse set of senior stakeholders to ensure that Head Offices priorities are met.
• People with sound judgment and analytical skills, able to take evidence-based decisions and calculated risks, with a good instinct for when to seek direction.
• People who have can drive forward change and can overcome obstacles to drive forward improvements.  
• People who are resilient, able to oversee and progress a broad programme of activities, prioritising among them and delivering to deadlines.
• Individuals who are highly organised and able to establish a close working relationship with a wide range of contacts, inside and outside of the Department.
• A sense of fun and a willingness to help develop a close and supportive team ethos.

 Essential

• A good understanding of cyber risk and cyber security
• Formal/ accredited qualifications in Information Risk Management and/or Information Security

Technical Qualifications

• IISP Skills Framework: A1 – Governance. Level 5 (Advise) – Principal Practitioner
• IISP Skills Framework: B1 – Threat Intelligence, Assessment and Threat Modelling. Level 5 (Advise) – Principal Practitioner
• IISP Skills Framework: B3 – Information Risk Management. Level 5 (Advise) – Principal Practitioner

Desirable

Knowledge of Security and Resilience Member of the professional body such as the Security Institute or Business Continuity Institute.

Formal/ accredited qualifications in Information Risk Management and/or Information Security

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

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service

Alongside your salary of £57,670, Ministry of Defence contributes £15,570 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 with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Free onsite Gym
• Onsite Restaurant and Coffee Shop
• Generous annual leave allowance starting at 25 days per annum.

MOD Corsham, Westwells Road, Corsham, SN13 9NR

We are Defence Digital, part of Strategic Command, fulfilling an important role in the age of information warfare within the Ministry of Defence (MOD). We provide digital and technology services to our Armed Forces, ensuring they can operate securely via various communication means including radio, satellite, and the internet. Operating at scale, with an annual budget in excess of £2Bn and a diverse team of 2,500 colleagues, we’re aiming to make our Armed Forces some of the most technologically advanced in the world.

If you can see yourself contributing to the world of Defence digital and technology, the next chapter of your career may be with us!

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

The Crypto Custodian position sits within the MOD Corsham Security and Resilience team and is responsible for the safe custody, registration, mustering, amendment, issue, safe handling and disposal of Cryptographic items, held at their locations.

In this role, you’ll provide advice on risks to information, relating to Crypto use and share the discharge of all duties, regarding the cryptographic material held, with the Alternate Custodian Officer.

Currently, the role involves working in a subterranean environment but there are plans for this to change in the near future.

For this role, the successful candidate will be required to undertake the following training. These are short residential courses in Bedfordshire:

• CSD (UKNDA) 2-day crypto course.
• STRAPSO course must be attended in the first 12 weeks of taking up the post, if not already completed.
• The Information and Technology Security Officers course must be completed within the first 6 months of taking up the post, if not already completed.

This role sits within the Government Security Profession framework, which seeks to build the capacity and capabilities of security professionals across government. As an organisation, we are committed to providing learning and development opportunities, tailored to your role and beyond, helping you continue your professional development.

You’ll also be able to take advantage of our excellent benefits package, including flexible working, generous leave allowance, great discount services and a market-leading Civil Service pension.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the whole life accounting, management and maintenance of three large Communication Security (Comsec) accounts.
• Lead the process for issuing cryptographic material to all individuals who have a requirement to use crypto.
• Checking individual’s clearances with UK Vetting Service prior to briefing and issuing Cryptographic Authorisation Certificates.
• Lead on regular ad-hoc auditing checks on site and at Boddington.
• Lead 6 monthly Crypto Services for Defence (CSD) audits of all holdings within the specified time and prepare for annual audits.
• Lead on the destruction of material in accordance with policy.
• Attend all power outages at Corsham and Boddington, as required.
• Complete on-call requirements, either pre-arranged outages or urgent incidents.

If you have the following knowledge, skills and experience, we would love to hear from you!

• Working knowledge of cryptographic devices, policies and procedures
• Experience of working either directly or indirectly in a security environment
• An understanding of generic security roles and responsibilities
• Knowledge or understanding of implementing policy and audit processes
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• An understanding of risk management

This role is predominantly based on site, with limited opportunities for hybrid working.

If not already held, the successful candidate will be required to undertake DV clearance. This position is open to sole UK Nationals only.

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

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

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

• Legal and regulatory environment and compliance
• Secure operations management

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.

• Learning and development tailored to your role with a dedicated minimum of 5 days per year
• 25 days paid annual leave rising (by 1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of five years’ service
• Ability to roll up to 10 days annual leave per year
• In addition to eight public holidays per year, you will also receive leave for HM The King’s birthday
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Parental and Adoption Leave
• Discounts on a range of services within and external to the civil service – Defence Discount Service, Civil Service societies for Sports and Leisure, Healthcare, Insurance, Motoring, Company discounts with Virgin, Vodafone, and Microsoft Office.
• In year rewards and ‘thank you’ schemes such as vouchers and gift cards
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Please see Benefits Leaflet for more detail

Please be aware that this role will be based at one of our main sites in Lowestoft or Weymouth.

The Information and Security Officer will be responsible for two important business critical and government policy areas Information Security and Business Continuity, as well as supporting and deputising for the Head of Risk, Security and Information in management of Enterprise Risk.

This role requires a certain amount of autonomy, with the postholder acting on their own initiative, within set parameters, making decisions around work priorities and resolving, often complex issues. Supporting the Head of Risk, Security and information with managing and motivating staff in this area, the role will require good interpersonal and communication skills.

The role will require a good technical understanding of information management and information security and Cyber security controls.

The post holder may be required to perform duties other than those given in the job description. The duties and responsibilities attached to the post may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility entailed.

Cefas is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, backgrounds, ways of working and thinking, makes us a stronger organisation, better at reflecting the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

The Post Holder will be the lead for Information Security Management System, this will include (but not limited to); working with Information Asset Owners to assess and manage risks to Cefas critical information assets, and responsible managing the accreditation cycle of those critical information assets, managing Business Continuity, Incident Management and Disaster Recovery planning and activation of those plans.

The Post Holder will work closely with the IT Services Group to ensure cyber security actions are completed and mitigating controls are in place and working.

The Post Holder will support and deputise for the Head of Risk, Security and Information in managing of Enterprise Risk, this will include when required attending the ARAC to report on the top-level risks and chairing the Risk Board.

The post holder will manage aspects of Records Management, Data Protection Management, and Freedom of Information Management, which will include (but not limited to), Defining and managing classifications and record types, managing and improving records management within Cefas, ensuring full retention period activation for stored electronic and paper records, managing Cefas compliance with the Data Protection Act. Collaboration with Defra – Records Management, Data Protection, and Freedom of Information teams, to develop, maintain and promote best practice. Creation, updating and promotion of the Information Management and Security Teams policies and PAG’s.

The post holder may be required to perform duties other than those given in the job description. The duties and responsibilities attached to the post may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility entailed.

This role requires National Security Vetting at SC level.

The following are essential criteria required for this role and you must be able to demonstrate your skills and experience in the following areas: 

• Experience of engaging, advising and influencing at all levels of an organisation including senior managers
• The ability to consider the correct approach for each individual challenge
• The ability to take a cross-government approach, considering the impact of your decisions in the broadest of settings
• Understanding information security and assurance covering Cyber, personnel and physical
• Understanding and working knowledge and experience of information risk management
• Excellent IT skills and knowledge including hardware, software and networks
• Experience working within an ISO27001 compliant information security management system or experience working within an ISO22301 compliant Business Continuity Management System Good Eye for detail Commercial/ Business acumen
• The ability to form excellent relationships within Cefas and across Defra, especially with the Defra Groups within the teams’ areas of responsibility
• The ability to analyse information to provide appropriate expert advice and guidance
• Experience of managing complex and diverse workload, leading and drawing on multiple teams across Cefas and Defra to complete tasks
• Proven ability to perform effectively to deadlines, maintaining focus in challenging situations and adapting to find solutions that meet the needs of stakeholders
• A degree (for example in Computer Science, Cyber Security or related equivalent subject or qualification), and Certified Information Security Manager in good standing or Certified Information Security Systems Professional in good standing or willing to work towards one of these certifications

A degree, for example in Computer Science, Cyber Security or related equivalent subject or qualification.

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

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Seeing the Big Picture

Alongside your salary of £37,295, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science contributes £7,830 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Generous annual leave entitlement – Cefas offers 25 days’ annual leave on entry (rising to 30 days over first 5yrs) for full-time new entrants to the Civil Service. Employees receive 8 public holidays a year, plus an additional day to mark the King’s birthday
• Access to learning and development tailored to your role
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• Eligible to join the Civil Service Pension scheme – more information can be found on the CSP website http://www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk/
• Staff recognition vouchers
• In-year award scheme

Blackpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sheffield

Working for the Department for Work & Pensions Security Business Intelligence and Management team, you will work at the very centre of the department’s security function, and you will be working not just across the security function, but across all areas of DWP including Finance, Commercials and HR and occasionally with other Government Departments such as Cabinet Office and HMRC, in a fast paced, busy and challenging environment. 

The team develops and provides all aspects Security Business Intelligence and Management including, developing, improving and maintaining the Security Assessment Framework, including regular reporting to the S&DP Senior Leadership Team, provision of secretariat duties to the high-level departmental Security Boards, and high quality security information and management information.  The Team is also responsible for support to the Chief Security Officer and the Senior Leadership Team. Budgetary management, maintaining the Security and Data Protection (S&DP) resource baseline, providing fast and accurate responses to Parliamentary Questions (PQs) and Freedom of Information requests (FOIs), internal communications, business plans.

DWP security are looking for a highly motivated person.

The Business Intelligence and Management Lead will play a central role in supporting the Head of Security Business Intelligence Management, and senior managers across Security and wider DWP. The two separate leads will help to ensure the continued growth, development, streamlining, maintenance and delivery of;

1. The Business Intelligence function, such as the Security Assessment Framework (SAF), Security Management Information (MI), and Cyber Assessment Framework return.
2. The new and evolving DWP Security Operating Model outcomes, and
3. The DWP Security Management Information Dashboard

You will be responsible for leading and influencing strategic work within Security & Data Protection (S&DP).

This will involve taking ownership of specific areas of DWP Business Intelligence and Management structures and being responsible for the continuous improvement of those specific areas and communicating and instilling a culture of excellence and co-operation across the function.

The Business Intelligence function, such as the Security Assessment Framework (SAF), Security Management Information(MI), and includes but is not limited to; actively managing and leading on; the improvement of the SAF, the development and implementation of PowerBI reports, and an active role in the completion of cross-government returns such as the Departmental Security Health Check.

Responsibilities

• You will oversee the improvement and development of Security Assessment Framework (SAF), and other Security management information that feeds the dashboard and any other reports with Security Maturity information such as the Departmental Security Health Check (DSHC) and Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF).
• You will continuously build and maintain good working relationships with Security and Data Protection (S&DP) senior leaders, across DWP and Other Government Departments (OGDs).
• The role supports Security and Data Protection (S&DP) senior leadership team and Chief Security Officer (CSO) with a multitude of ad-hoc asks.
• You will gain assurance that the Security Governance Boards’ secretariat record significant security risk decisions as required.
• You will be responsible for the line management of team members.

Essential Criteria

• Background and knowledge of security.
• Proven strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to engage effectively across multiple organisations operating, within a complex multi-partner environment.
• Have demonstrable experience of providing strong leadership, direction, and decision making, with the proven ability to steer senior conversations.
• Experience of identifying, collating, interpreting and explaining often complex information to inform future activity.
• Commitment to personal and professional development, Someone who drives their own development journey and acts on feedback to improve performance.
• Motivating and managing a team.

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Communicating and Influencing

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%