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Darlington, London

Four exciting new opportunities have opened up to work in the Market Distorting Practices & Economic Coercion Team at the Department for Business & Trade. We are recruiting for three roles working on economic coercion policy (two with a domestic focus and one with an international focus) and another role working on implementing our international engagement strategy. This latter role will also involve an element of project management within the team.  

Addressing economic coercion and market distorting practices is a priority for the UK Government to ensure free and fair trade and protect our economic security, society, and UK businesses. 

These are high-profile roles, with considerable Ministerial and international interest, that will provide ample opportunity for variety, development and stretch in developing and applying policy and strategy, as well as planning and implementation. The roles will also be equally rewarding, sitting at the heart of some of the most interesting geopolitical and economic challenges of our time, with potentially far-reaching real-world impacts. 

This is a relatively new policy area, and the roles offer strong opportunities to identify new and innovative ways to address the policy challenges. 

We strongly encourage applications from people with diverse skills, perspectives, and backgrounds to bring real strength to our team and the wider department. 

When applying, candidates should specify which role they would be most interested in. 

2x Domestic Policy Adviser – Economic Coercion  

The post holders will:

• Work collaboratively across Whitehall to develop and implement a programme of work to ensure that the UK has the right domestic tools to defend itself against acts of economic coercion. 
• Evaluate policy according to a consistent framework, base lining against international comparators, assessing gaps in the UK’s current regime, bringing together policy experts to propose creative/innovative but realistic options, and evaluate them to produce evidence-based recommendations. 
• Work with analysts to develop a strong evidence base. 
• Work with lawyers to ensure planned interventions are lawful.  
• Manage domestic stakeholder and business engagement. 
• Manage public/ministerial communications around our approach/strategy and Parliamentary engagement, enquiries, and briefing. 
• Support senior managers and provide briefing advice where needed. 

International Policy Adviser – Economic Coercion 

The post holder will:

• Collaborate with teams across government (including FCDO, Cabinet Office and posts) to develop and deliver international policy on economic coercion, including for high profile meetings of the G7, OECD (among others).
• Work strategically to influence international counterparts on economic coercion.
• Provide high quality briefing for seniors to support international engagements.
• Support and participate in engagement with international partners on economic coercion.
• Monitor and track upcoming international milestones for forward-planning purposes.
• Become an authority on the global landscape on economic coercion.

Strategy Adviser – Economic Coercion and Market Distorting Practices  

The post holder will: 

• Work collaboratively across Whitehall and the HMG Diplomatic network to develop and implement the department’s international strategy for MDPs and economic coercion. This will involve building strong relationships  to ensure that there is effective join up and coordination on MDPs and Economic Coercion across HMG . 
• Work effectively across the department to ensure that the team’s strategic engagement priorities are reflected in wider departmental strategies.  
• Engage with key likeminded and non-likeminded partners on Economic Coercion and MDPs through a range of bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral forums – representing UK positions and priorities. 
• Produce high-quality briefings and updates on MDPs and Economic Coercion for Ministers and senior officials. This will include feeding into speeches for Ministers, bilateral and multilateral briefings as well as internal meetings with Ministers on our policy programme.  
• Provide an effective and efficient project management oversight function across the team. This will include: managing key PMO products for team; ensuring that team plans are kept up to date on a regular basis; co-coordinating the day-to-day briefing commissions for the team.

Essential Criteria

• Knowledge and experience of trade policy. 
• Excellent communication/drafting skills and ability to influence effectively. 
• Excellent personal organisation skills (including experience of project management), and an ability to balance competing priorities. 
• Comfortable working in uncertainty, with the ability to develop proposals at pace and within ambiguous contexts. 

Desirable Criteria 

• Knowledge and experience in economic security issues.
• Knowledge and experience of strategy development and implementation.

Personal Attributes & Skills 

• Able to identify, evidence and analyse policy options with authority, drawing on others as appropriate. 
• See the big picture, able to identify links and opportunities in a fast-moving policy area. 
• Ability to form effective working relationships across DBT/Whitehall. 

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

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

Alongside your salary of £38,052, Department for Business and Trade contributes £10,274 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%

Please refer to the attached candidate pack for further information on our benefits.

We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

National

Digital and Information Directorate (DID) brings together professional experts in digital technology, security, information management and operational process transformation to deliver high quality services to the CPS. 

The Senior Cyber Security Manager post is based in the Cyber Security Team which provides specialist advice on cyber risk management and day to day operations (e.g. questions around secure digital data systems and devices) as well as strategy and policy.

The unit also deals with cyber security incident management, as well as working with suppliers and other Government Departments to ensure the delivery and development of an appropriately secure ICT network and other digital services.

**We will be holding an engagement session on Monday 18th September 2023 at 16:30 for any prospective candidates to come along to. Here you can meet the hiring manager in the Cyber Security Team to find out more about the role and responsibilities, how the team works and the opportunities available to you. We strongly recommend that prospective candidates do not formally submit their application form before attending this session.
You can request a link to join this meeting by emailing [email protected] **

The Digital and Information Directorate (DID) brings together experts in digital technology, commercial services, security, information management, and operational process transformation to provide high-quality services to the CPS. They aim to build positive partnerships across the Criminal Justice System and with government colleagues, implementing innovative practices to reduce risk, improve user experience, and support successful business delivery. Within DID, the Security and Information Assurance Division (SIAD) consists of interlinked teams offering holistic guidance on security and information assurance. The Cyber Security Team (CST), part of SIAD, supports the Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) and Data Protection Officer (DPO) in ensuring the organisation’s information and technology are securely protected. CST’s primary role is to safeguard the CPS network, IT infrastructure, and services from theft, damage, and cyber-attacks, investigating advanced methodologies and technologies for threat detection and defence.

The Cyber Security Team (CST) at the CPS fosters a vigilant and collaborative culture, emphasising continuous learning. They prioritise teamwork, communication, and adaptability while facing daily challenges of safeguarding the CPS’s digital infrastructure. The team stays proactive by identifying risks, responding to cyber incidents, and ensuring compliance with security standards and audits. A typical day involves engaging in various programs, offering guidance on cyber security aspects, implementing policies, providing training, and participating in audits. The team stays updated on emerging threats and technologies, and collaborates with external agencies to combat cyber-crime and protect sensitive information. Overall, the CST’s crucial role is to protect digital assets and stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.

• Devise and disseminate cyber related departmental security policy and procedures based upon current good business practise, knowledge of technical developments, Cabinet Office guidance and an understanding of CPS risk appetite and DPO and SIRO decisions.
• Develop a strategic cyber security approach that leverages the additional reassurance provided by the Advanced Threat Investigation services to deliver increased business benefit.
• Prepare cyber reports to advise senior managers and assist in increasing knowledge of cyber security risks and practise across CPS.
• Develop and implement a training strategy to raise the level of cyber security awareness and behaviour within the CPS.
• Engage with suppliers to maximise benefit and achieve optimal balance of security and business benefit.
• Engage and collaborate with other stakeholders such business users and external suppliers to investigate whether suggested business solutions can be implemented within the CPS risk appetite.
• Knowledge of technical and logical data controls relevant to cyber security, including encryption, access controls, and right-sizing data access.
• Knowledge of physical and personnel security requirements, including environmental controls, security vetting and geo-location.

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Making Effective Decisions

Alongside your salary of £38,940, Crown Prosecution Service contributes £10,513 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Join the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and have a future that matters: Find Your Purpose

CPS is passionate about ensuring that we are a top performing organisation and a great place to work. 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.

We want to ensure all our employees can thrive at work and home and offer a range of support to achieve a balance. This includes where possible, flexibility of working hours, flexibility to support caring responsibilities and a flexible approach to deployment, which means that where you work (i.e. a court, an office, or a remote setting such as your home) will be based on the kind of work you are undertaking.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our staff networks covering Disability, Faith and Belief, LGBTQI+, Race, Social Mobility alongside our Mental Health First Aiders Programme and Wellbeing Sessions.

CPS commits to offer its employees the following experience

• Impactful, purposeful work – making a difference to your local communities
• The ability to learn and grow, with access to the right opportunities and resources
• To care about your wellbeing
• To feel valued, trusted and included

We also offer the following range of benefits:

• Civil Service Pension
• Access to employee savings
• Cycle2Work scheme
• 25 days leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service.
• 1 extra privilege day entitlement to mark the King’s Birthday.
• Competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
• Flexible working and a family friendly approach to work.
• Childcare vouchers unless already registered with the Government Tax Free Childcare Scheme)

 The CPS has also designed a range of Management Development Programme to support all Aspiring, New and Experienced Managers in developing the skills, behaviour and knowledge to build their confidence and capability. We strongly recommend that all new managers undertake the Manager Induction.

Stoke Gifford, South West England, BS34 8JH : Corsham, South West England, SN13 9NR : City of Westminster, London (region), SW1A 2HB

Fraud Defence is the central counter-fraud function for the MOD. It takes the strategic lead for fraud, corruption and other economic crime matters across Defence, it represents the MOD as the victim of fraud and drives the MOD’s coordinated response to fraud. Fraud Defence provides subject expertise to inform risk decisions by Defence senior stakeholders on fraud & corruption; is the single reporting gateway for economic crime and whistle-blower concerns, undertakes investigations and coordinates training and awareness.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

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

• Working Together
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership

Alongside your salary of £41,000, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,070 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%

Durham, North East England, DH1 1SL : Lytham St Anne’s, North West England, FY8 4TS : Glasgow, Scotland, G2 8JX : City of Westminster, London (region), SW1P 3BT

We are currently looking to build out our Enterprise Architecture team at NS&I, to help support our business transformation journey.

Having previously outsourced these functions, it is now time we bring this skillset in house to help drive the future success of the business during an important time of change and development.

This role is one of 4 we will recruit for, which includes a Business Architect, an Application Architect, a Data Architect, and an Infrastructure & Security Architect.

The Infrastructure & Security Architect is a key role in the Enterprise Architecture team, defining and assessing the organisation’s platform and security architecture strategy, high level architectures, and practices. The Infrastructure and Security Architect will be required to effectively translate business objectives and risk management strategies into secure designs and services.  They are also key to ensuring that solutions proposed are aligned with NS&I ‘cloud-native’ principles, and for identifying opportunities for exploiting cloud technologies in future.

The Infrastructure & Security Architect works with NS&I’s service providers and the internal Risk team to plan and design the security architecture that enable the enterprise to develop and implement  solutions and capabilities that are clearly aligned with the security risk appetite of the business, while supporting NS&Is “fast follower” ambition.

The Infrastructure & Security Architect evaluates services, suppliers, applications and security tools, from a technical and security architecture perspective, and translates the risk characteristics of these activities and functions into enterprise risk terms.

Please see attached role profile for further details on responsibilities.

Essential experience:

• Significant experience of defining security architecture and governance principles in an organisation, and the assurance processes to monitor compliance.
• Significant experience of working in an outsourced environment with an “outputs-based” operating model.
• Considerable experience of IT system delivery projects (following both agile and waterfall methodologies), and implementing security within those deliveries.
• Considerable experience of designing and implementing hybrid infrastructure landscapes.
• Proven experience in definition and delivery of IT infrastructure at scale.

Essential technical knowledge and skills:

• Significant experience of designing and supporting the implementation of a cloud-native solution stack in large, complex organisations.
• Strong working knowledge of implementing security infrastructure
• Recent technical experience of infrastructure design and implementation with a major technology ecosystem.
• Strong working knowledge of defining the architecture for security tools within an enterprise
• Experience designing the deployment of applications and infrastructure into public cloud services.
• Full-stack knowledge of IT infrastructure (including applications, hosting platforms, cloud-native infrastructure):
• Direct experience designing and/or reviewing IAM technologies and services.

Desirable qualifications, experience and technical knowledge / skills:

• Degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity or a related field.
• Experience in using architecture methodologies such as TOGAF and preferably TOGAF certified.
• Knowledge of:
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF);
• NCSC guidance and best practice;
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act (DPA)

Alongside your salary of £54,900, National Savings and Investments contributes £14,823 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

NS&I is one of the largest savings organisations in the UK with 25 million customers and more than £207 billion invested. We are both a government department and an Executive Agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Our origins can be traced back over 150 years to 1861.

A small company with a big reach we offer a range of benefits to include flexible working, great opportunities for development and a generous pension scheme. We care for colleagues, respect one another, invest in our people and manage talent effectively.

Some benefits of working at NS&I include:

• • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible hybrid working options
  • 9 day fortnight scheme
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
  • Generous annual leave – starting at 25 days, increasing to 30 days
  • Performance related variable pay bonus
  • Enhanced Maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave.

Glasgow, York

This exciting role will lead the work of the Cabinet Office in defining, enabling and delivering HMG’s next generation of Working at SECRET capabilities, building on but not being constrained by today’s foundational services.  This is a leadership role with real strategic import as we seek to protect UK information assets and capabilities from capable hostile actors and enhance UK prosperity by enabling the UK cyber industry to blossom.

The ideal candidate will have presence, drive, empathy and determination.  They will lead a small team within GSG to develop and deliver the required HMG-wide Future SECRET Working Strategy.  You will collaborate extensively with colleagues elsewhere within Cabinet Office and across defence, national security, civil government and law enforcement in particular on comprehensive capture of requirements, constraints and opportunities to inform strategy formulation and delivery.  Indeed, critical to success will be the post holder’s ability to create close working relationships across departments and the wider stakeholder network to ensure our overall approach to future working at SECRET accurately reflects the need and is consistently agreed and adopted. 

You will enjoy significant responsibility, broad visibility and the opportunity for accelerated professional development. There will be a requirement to travel between HMG and other sites in the UK when undertaking this role. 

• Leading future working at SECRET work across GSG, working closely with counterparts throughout the Directorate (to include Policy, Cyber, Strategy and Assurance) to ensure our overall approach to SECRET working is well-informed and coherent.
• Formulating an HMG-wide Future SECRET Working Strategy.
• Directing a G7 engagement lead in identifying, analysing and securing agreement across departments on what is needed in this space, how to deliver and fund it. 
• Leading and overseeing engagement with departments and organisations to ensure alignment of proposed solutions, standards and policies, and adoption of a coherent approach for future working at SECRET.
• Collaborating with technologists in NCSC, CDDO and industry to identify technological solutions to the user requirements.
• Producing a Cabinet Office Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) bid to fund enabling capability delivery.
• Collaborating with other bidding departments to ensure that bid is part of a set of coordinated CSR bids across all relevant departments.
• Creating, gaining agreement to and delivering a plan for the implementation of the new strategy.
• Ensuring effective communications are produced to inform all stakeholder communities, including ministers and senior officials, and delivering supporting briefings as required.
• Holding the line across departmental stakeholders to ensure their full support for, and collaboration in, this common enterprise.

• Maintaining a governance regime, ensuring blockers are identified, seniors are well sighted and issues are escalated to ensure prompt delivery.
• Drafting submissions and making recommendations to senior stakeholders, including within GSG, the wider Cabinet Office, senior boards (such as the Civil Service Board (CSB) and Government Security Steering Group (GSSG)).
• Owning engagement with commercial, legal and finance functions and HMT.
• Sourcing additional resources as needed to support work streams.
• Line management of one G7, developing and motivating staff to ensure everyone achieves their potential.

• Highly motivated self-starter and strong team player.  Flexible.
• Inclusive, collaborative, inquisitive, willing to challenge and be challenged.
• Diplomatic, with strong people and engagement skills, able to inspire and influence. Must be able to influence at senior levels.  Comfortable representing the SCS1 and SCS2 when required.  Effective delegation skills.
• High attention to detail with the ability to juggle competing priorities and deliver multiple tasks within competing timelines.
• Adept at picking up issues quickly and bringing together analysis and different views/inputs to develop a consensus.
• Highly proactive, able to problem-solve and see tasks through to completion. 
• Able to work effectively as part of a fast-paced team where priorities can change.
• Able to run large cross-cutting pieces of work, demonstrating high levels of organisation and ability to work through others.

Essential skills and experience:

• An experienced generalist with both policy formulation and delivery experience.
• Effective team-builder, including virtual teams.
• Proven ability to inspire, motivate and lead, with an ability to develop effective and collaborative working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders, including internal teams and in other government departments.
• Excellent written English and oral communication skills; able to adapt your communication to different audiences.  Can lead meetings and present to a high standard.
• Strong analytical skills.
• While this role is not targeted at expert technologies, an interest and an ability to work with technologists is key.

Desirable skills and experience:

• Experience of business change and transformation.
• Experience of finance, procurement and line management.
• Experience of, and interest in, cyber and information technology. 
• An understanding of information security and the security profession across Government.

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

• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing

Alongside your salary of £64,700, Cabinet Office contributes £17,469 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.

Fareham, Southampton

Are you an analytically minded individual looking for your next challenge in information security risk management?

Are you interested in developing your Information / Cyber security experience whilst being developed with industry recognised qualifications?

If so, we are looking for a Security Specialist to join us at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and we’d love to hear from you!

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) implements the government’s maritime safety policy in the United Kingdom and works to prevent the loss of life and occurrence of pollution on the coast and at sea.   

Safer lives. Safer Ships. Cleaner Seas.   

Our vision is to be a world-leading organisation, accelerating the transition to sustainable shipping with non-negotiable safety standards. We put our people, our customers and our planet at the heart of everything we do.  

We welcome applications from all communities, and we don’t discriminate against any identity. We’re interested to hear from you, regardless of your background.   

We are looking for a Security Specialist to join us within our growing Information Security Team.  The Security Specialist will support, influence and contribute to the Information Security strategy and function for the MCA via internal consultation, evaluation and assessment to influence security best practice and ensure information security requirements are fully considered and implemented as part of the design throughout projects and operational processes.

The successful applicant will collaborate with a variety of stakeholders across the MCA, providing security advice, feedback and input around key areas including programmes and projects, work packages, security vetting and system security.  They will ensure compliance to internal and external security standards through the service delivery of audit services and will liaise with other IT service functions to ensure the appropriate level of security controls are applied to support and protect operational business needs.  The role holder will share line management responsibility for one direct report, supporting, mentoring and coaching them to achieve successful outcomes.

This is a fantastic opportunity to enjoy a role which offers a great variation in work and lots of senior stakeholder engagement and exposure across all functions within the organisation, making a key impact in supporting an emergency service to deliver crucial life-saving services.  You will join a supportive and growing team with amazing training opportunities. 

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Being responsible for the Information Security risk management process – including identification, assessment and risk mitigation activity.
• Consulting on and assessing projects and operational work packages to discover and document related risks; defining controls and mitigations and ensuring implementation in line with ISMS (Information Security Management Systems) and governance standards. 
• Deciding and directing security works for projects, strategic programs, procurement and compliance driven activities.
• Resolving security related incidents according to agreed policy and playbooks with a view to limiting organisational exposure as quickly as possible, communicating as appropriate and driving through workarounds and subsequently permanent fixes with the relevant teams.
• Managing the vulnerability remediation activity within the Agency ensuring these are prioritised in line with the risk management strategy and Information Security strategy.

For further information about the role and responsibilities, please see the attached role profile.

This role can be based at the Southampton HQ or Fareham office. MCA supports flexible working and operates a hybrid working model between home and office for this role, giving you greater flexibility over where and when you work. Details of the arrangement will be discussed further with your line manager.

There will be a requirement for travel on official duty within the UK which may involve overnight stays away from home.

Please note, due to the nature of the role you will also be required to already hold or undergo Security Checks (SC) before commencing employment with us. Gaining SC Clearance will normally require you to have been a resident in the UK for a minimum of 5 years, and only candidates who meet this requirement will be considered for the role.

This role requires an individual who holds CISM/CISSP/CISA/CISP or has equivalent experience.  You will have experience of aligning working practices to security standards, best practices and industry guidelines along with experience in information security risk management aligning with business strategies & requirements.

Effective collaboration is important to you and you’re able to build rapport quickly, resulting in strong and trusted working relationships across various operational areas.  You’re a confident communicator, able to liaise with stakeholders at all levels and competent in presenting information clearly to ensure understanding, translating technical knowledge into business value.

A self-starter, you are able to remain motivated whilst managing your own workload, balancing and prioritising tasks. 

You will be an analytical thinker with good problem-solving skills, able to consider critical factors, learning and research in order to make informed decisions.

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

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance. 

Find out what it’s like to work at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency

National

National £37,056- £42,481

Outer £38,967- £44,240

Inner £40,876- £45,998

The UKHSA Public Inquiry (PI) Team are recruiting a Senior Security Analyst to join the Data Discovery and Disclosure Team on a fixed-term basis. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing Team within UKHSA.

As Senior Security Analyst, you will own the Governance procedures which regulate the PI Team’s eDiscovery Programme. Working closely with UKHSA Security colleagues, you will be responsible for Security Monitoring for the PI Team, ensuring that adherence to UKHSA Security Standards and best practices is maintained.

You will have the opportunity to engage with a wide range of stakeholders and users from across the organisation as part of the projects you work on. The role will also require you to provide Business as Usual operations support to the PI Team and be a senior point of escalation for technical issues.

This role is being offered on a full-time basis. This is a Fixed Term Contract with an end date on 31/03/2025.

Location

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) offers hybrid working – this means that whilst the role will be based in one of our offices, there will be opportunities for an element of working from home. UKHSA have office locations across the UK.

This role can be based at one of our UKHSA offices/locations (Leeds, Manchester, Totnes, London, Horsham, Cardiff, Bristol, Nottingham, Harlow, Liverpool, Fareham, Gloucester, Newcastle and Birmingham) with opportunities for an element of working from home. You will be asked to express a location preference during the application process.

The balance between home and workplace working is to be agreed with the line manager, determined primarily by business needs and in line with departmental policy.

*Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available.*

The successful candidate will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

• Establish and maintain Governance procedures to regulate the PI Team’s eDiscovery Programme.
• Continually evaluate the security risk level of data collected through eDiscovery and of data collated on our eDisclosure platform.
• Conduct metadata analysis of eDiscovery search results to determine data integrity, documenting outputs and maintaining an audit log.
• Monitor, triage and investigate PI Team security alerts across various platforms to identify security incidents and perform analysis of event data to support the response, reporting and resolution of security incidents.
• Close collaboration with UKHSA Security colleagues to complete Security Monitoring of PI Team systems and provide operational security reporting on the PI Team eDiscovery Programme.
• Ensure Team compliance with UKHSA Security principles and other relevant policies.
• Support the wider PI Team and Legal Team in their use of our eDisclosure platform, advocating secure use and adherence to best practice throughout the document review and production process.
• Provide technical expertise to manage and develop the eDiscovery Programme within the PI Team.
• Provide Business as Usual operations support to the PI Team and be a senior point of escalation for technical issues.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The successful candidate is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.

It is important through your application and Statement of Suitability of 1000 words that you give evidence and examples of proven experience of each of the following criteria:

Essential

• Skilled Security practitioner with experience of working within a Security Team/Division or equivalent.
• Experience of establishing and maintaining Security Governance procedures and/or processes.
• Experience of conducting security risk level assessments of information/datasets.
• Experience of conducting metadata analysis to determine data integrity.
• Experience of securely handling sensitive information.
• Experience managing and leading a team of skilled technical colleagues.
• Technical specialism. Ability to draft and maintain procedures and documentation.
• Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
• Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining personal networks.
• Ability to work at pace and prioritise effectively.

Desirable

• Practical eDiscovery experience, including use of eDiscovery tools, construction of keyword and metadata searches, and analysis of digital material.
• Formal technical qualification, e.g. MCSE or equivalent.
• Experience of working on or with Public Inquiries and understanding the legal framework that they operate in. This could include experience working in a legal environment.

For more information on UKHSA please visit: UK Health Security Agency – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Benefits

• 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%
• Range of health and wellbeing support
• 26 days annual leave allowance increasing to 32 days after a 10-year service

Any move to UKHSA 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 Childcare Choices , 30 Hours Free Childcare, Tax-Free Childcare and More , Help with Costs , GOV.UK

Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham

The Deputy Director – Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service (LKIS) will lead local knowledge and intelligence teams which provide regional population health intelligence and surveillance support to local health and care systems.

Population Health Intelligence:

The postholder will oversee arrangements to provide effective local-national engagement on population health. They will have a key role in working with national and regional stakeholders including Regional Directors of Public Health to provide system leadership in population health intelligence as a key component of population health management (PHM) and Integrated Care System and Boards.

They will support an integrated and user centred approach to developing and brokering access to national population health analytics tools and support offers. This will require working with key local partners from public, private and academic sectors to build capacity and expertise in population health intelligence and analytics.

They will manage cross-cutting regional capacity and resources in analytics, knowledge mobilisation and analytical workforce development, identifying at-scale opportunities and sharing good practice to support local government and wider integrated health and care systems. This will include leadership of training and workforce development activities, including apprenticeships.

Public Health Analysis Unit:

The post-holder will deputise for the Director of Public Health Analysis when required and will play a key role in the determination and implementation of corporate strategies and plans within OHID.

This is a critical role which supports the delivery of the primary OHID function to improve the public’s health and reduce disparities.

As Deputy Director – Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service, your responsibilities will be:

Management and Leadership:

• Be a positive role model and an effective member of the PHAU Senior Management team.
• Lead the function to deliver defined outputs to the required quality, within budget and on-time.
• Take measures to continually develop and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the function.
• Develop staff members to be the best they can be through robust internal communications appropriate delegation, effective appraisal and mentoring, and visible leadership.
• Ensure that staff engagement, as measured by the annual staff survey, in the function is high and improvements are made, year on year.
• Develop innovative practice and service delivery models, both within the PHAU, OHID and beyond, involving other staff groups as appropriate.
• Work with colleagues across DHSC and ALBs to identify and ensure the maintenance of business-critical activities.
• Ensure the business and budgetary planning processes are fully in place and functioning effectively, reporting to agreed standards and timescales.
• Ensure succession planning within the function, responsible for the retention, recruitment, interviewing, selection and induction of new staff in the function.
• Ensure effective governance of the function through a process of management team meetings and review of relevant governance issues including health and safety and risk.
• Resolve complaints, grievances, capability, and disciplinary issues at the appropriate level.
• Providing leadership in a changing environment.
• Act on behalf of the Director of the Public Health Analysis Unit as required (Deputy).

It is important through your CV and Statement of Suitability that you give evidence and examples of proven experience of each of the following

Essential Criteria:

• A successful track record leading a diverse and inclusive team, and working collaboratively across organisations, and with multiple stakeholders, in a rapidly changing and uncertain environment.
• Expert knowledge of public health intelligence and analytical approaches based on secure data environments, reproducible analytical pipelines, and visualisation tools.
• Expert knowledge and experience of knowledge translation in a public health context.
• Understanding of decision-making processes at national and local level in both government and healthcare settings.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Aptitude to understand complex issues that may be outside of established skill sets, such as statistical policy.

• A relevant degree (BSc, MSc, PhD) which demonstrates core analytic and public health skills, or equivalent experience developed in the workplace and ability to demonstrate continuous professional development in both the analytic and public health fields.

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

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

• 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%

• 25 days annual leave on entry, increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service. This is in addition to 8 public holidays.

  This will be complemented by one further day paid privilege entitlement to mark the King’s Birthday.

National

Ofgem works on behalf of energy consumers to ensure that every household in Great Britain can rely on a safe energy supply. We are playing a vital part in accelerating the transition to Net Zero and a carbon neutral energy system – a goal that everyone wants to achieve. Whatever your role, you’ll be playing your part in creating new energy solutions that are great for customers and for the environment.  
 
We offer a diverse range of flexible working career opportunities: roles that are stimulating and rewarding, where you can get involved in ground-breaking work. And it’s important to us that we recruit from a wide range of professional and personal backgrounds – bringing experiences to our work.  
 
Our Cyber SPAR team plays a vital role in protecting the UK National Energy Infrastructure and ensuring organisational protection for Ofgem itself. This is a great career move for someone who can provide expertise in the identification and definition of Cyber risks; understanding threats and vulnerabilities; and assuring Ofgem mitigations and Cyber risk management. You’ll work with colleagues to build a detailed understanding of our use of operations, systems and data – identifying and mitigating associated risks. And you’ll work in collaboration with colleagues from across the UK security, intelligence and law enforcement community to assess and manage the security, privacy and resilience risks that could affect Ofgem, energy consumers and the UK’s critical national infrastructure.  
 
This is a key leadership role within Ofgem’s security community and we’re looking for someone with the right blend of professional and technical skills. You’ll be a leadership role model for others and bring assured communication and stakeholder management skills to the role. And you’ll already have a proven background in cyber security, or technology risk management that has enabled you to develop expertise in security awareness and training; security architecture; and your knowledge of best practice and standards such as NCSC and NIST. You’ll play a lead role in a growing team, during a formative time, so there is considerable scope to shape and influence how the team operates and to play a personal part in shaping Ofgem’s security strategies.  
 
Ofgem is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of open and fair competition, merit and business need.

Ofgem is a non-ministerial government department and an independent National Regulatory Authority. Our principal objective is to protect the interests of existing and future electricity and gas consumers. We do this by promoting value for money, promoting security of supply and sustainability, for present and future generations of consumers, domestic and industrial users, the supervision and development of markets and competition, regulation and the delivery of government schemes. We work effectively with, but are independent of, government, the energy industry and other stakeholders within a legal framework determined by the UK government and the European Union. 

This role will be part of Cyber Security Directorate at Ofgem, which has two main objectives:

• Protecting the UK National Infrastructure –  Act as Joint Competent Authority for implementing the NIS Regulations, to improve security and resilience in the Downstream Gas and Electricity sector.
• Protecting Ofgem – Ensure that Ofgem maintains appropriate levels of security, privacy and resilience to protect; our people, data, operations and facilities from harm.

The Deputy Security Advisor provides expert support for the identification and definition of Cyber risks; understanding threats and vulnerabilities; and assuring Ofgem mitigations and Cyber risk management.

The role will report to Ofgem’s Security Advisor and will deputise for that position as required.

The role will work closely with Ofgem colleagues to understand business use of operations, systems and data. In addition, the role will work closely with colleagues from across the UK security, intelligence and law enforcement community, in order to maintain a sound understanding of the threats to Ofgem; our people; our consumers; and the UK’s critical national infrastructure – combining this knowledge to analyse the security, privacy and resilience risks that Ofgem must manage in order to prioritise a set of agile risk mitigation and capability development plans – driving these forward so residual risk is reduced to acceptable levels consistent with Ofgem’s risk appetite.

Key Outputs and Deliverables 

• Engagement and alignment with governance structures to support effective reporting for current and planned security improvements.
• Engagement with Ofgem’s forward work plan to ensure that security considerations are built in by default and by design.
• Ensuring that security monitoring and assurance requirements such as Security Health Checks are employed, and utilising intelligence and information from those processes to identify areas for improvement.
• Ensuring that advice has been received, understood, and implemented to a satisfactory standard in line with government security standards.
• Ensuring that the described status of Ofgem’s security defences and incident response capability is accurate and true.
• Supporting standing and exception reporting to the Security Advisor, CISO and Board as directed.
• Supporting engagement and reporting to NCSC and the Government Chief Security Officer as directed.
• Provide other divisions with accurate and up-to-date security threat information (for example, from the wider Government Security Groups).
• Engage with Business Continuity disciplines for Ofgem – including regular testing, staff adoption and simulations.
• Draft Security and Privacy Policies as directed, and co-ordinate stakeholder review and agreement.

 

Key Responsibilities 

• Being a leadership role model for the entire security community and modelling Civil Service values to foster and develop the profession across government.
• Providing advice and input to projects and departmental security issues, including the management of security risks.
• Driving organisational alignment to security standards and policies.
• Engaging and aligning activity with the Security Operations and Security Training and Awareness teams.
• Assessing and reporting on security risk for Ofgem, including trend analysis, data interpretation and dashboard reporting.
• Providing assurance to internal and external stakeholders that Ofgem’s system architecture, processes, practices, controls and staff handling of information is in line with Government standards.
• Providing operational guidance to Ofgem’s staff and maintaining security assurance and governance capability to achieve government security standards.
• Working collaboratively with Cabinet Office Government Security Group, external partners, and colleagues across government, to support Security Transformation program.
• Acting as an intelligent customer, establishing the need for, requesting and monitoring delivery and execution of services from NCSC; centralised HMG Cyber Services; and external delivery partners

Essential Criteria 

• (LEAD) Proven background, operating in cyber security, or technology risk management professions.
• (LEAD) Experience of cyber security and assurance practices including:
• Security Awareness and Training;
• Security Architecture;
• Best practices and standards such as NCSC and NIST
• Experience of engaging, advising and influencing at all levels of an organisation whilst projecting credibility and self-assurance; specifically relating to intelligence analysis and risk management.
• Experience of developing and implementing a pragmatic approach to assessing the security, privacy and resilience risks affecting sensitive assets, including engaging stakeholders to create shared understanding of the risks.
• Ability to analyse, translate and simplify complex information in order to provide appropriate advice and guidance at a strategic and operational level.
• Experience of managing the implementation of strategic plans, tracking progress on risk reduction and benefits delivery; and managing changes to plans line with identified delivery risks and issues.
• Able to achieve and maintain SC Clearance

Desirable Criteria 

• Experience of managing or delivering awareness and training, to create an appropriate culture.
• Wider experience of regulation, business operations and technology services. E.g. IT strategy; IT service management and delivery; delivering IT-enabled change; UK energy sector; Central Government; and the role of a Regulator.

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

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Changing and Improving

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

• Please refer to the Candidate Pack attached for full details.

Alongside your salary of £43,650, OFGEM contributes £11,785 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but is in review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.

National

National £37,056- £42,481

Outer £38,967- £44,240

Inner £40,876- £45,998

The UKHSA Public Inquiry (PI) Team are recruiting a Senior Security Analyst to join the Data Discovery and Disclosure Team on a fixed-term basis. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing Team within UKHSA.

As Senior Security Analyst, you will own the Governance procedures which regulate the PI Team’s eDiscovery Programme. Working closely with UKHSA Security colleagues, you will be responsible for Security Monitoring for the PI Team, ensuring that adherence to UKHSA Security Standards and best practices is maintained.

You will have the opportunity to engage with a wide range of stakeholders and users from across the organisation as part of the projects you work on. The role will also require you to provide Business as Usual operations support to the PI Team and be a senior point of escalation for technical issues.

This role is being offered on a full-time basis. This is a Fixed Term Contract with an end date on 31/03/2025.

Location

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) offers hybrid working – this means that whilst the role will be based in one of our offices, there will be opportunities for an element of working from home. UKHSA have office locations across the UK.

This role can be based at one of our UKHSA offices/locations (Leeds, Manchester, Totnes, London, Horsham, Cardiff, Bristol, Nottingham, Harlow, Liverpool, Fareham, Gloucester, Newcastle and Birmingham) with opportunities for an element of working from home. You will be asked to express a location preference during the application process.

The balance between home and workplace working is to be agreed with the line manager, determined primarily by business needs and in line with departmental policy.

*Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available.*

The successful candidate will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

• Establish and maintain Governance procedures to regulate the PI Team’s eDiscovery Programme.
• Continually evaluate the security risk level of data collected through eDiscovery and of data collated on our eDisclosure platform.
• Conduct metadata analysis of eDiscovery search results to determine data integrity, documenting outputs and maintaining an audit log.
• Monitor, triage and investigate PI Team security alerts across various platforms to identify security incidents and perform analysis of event data to support the response, reporting and resolution of security incidents.
• Close collaboration with UKHSA Security colleagues to complete Security Monitoring of PI Team systems and provide operational security reporting on the PI Team eDiscovery Programme.
• Ensure Team compliance with UKHSA Security principles and other relevant policies.
• Support the wider PI Team and Legal Team in their use of our eDisclosure platform, advocating secure use and adherence to best practice throughout the document review and production process.
• Provide technical expertise to manage and develop the eDiscovery Programme within the PI Team.
• Provide Business as Usual operations support to the PI Team and be a senior point of escalation for technical issues.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The successful candidate is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.

It is important through your application and Statement of Suitability of 1000 words that you give evidence and examples of proven experience of each of the following criteria:

Essential

• Skilled Security practitioner with experience of working within a Security Team/Division or equivalent.
• Experience of establishing and maintaining Security Governance procedures and/or processes.
• Experience of conducting security risk level assessments of information/datasets.
• Experience of conducting metadata analysis to determine data integrity.
• Experience of securely handling sensitive information.
• Experience managing and leading a team of skilled technical colleagues.
• Technical specialism. Ability to draft and maintain procedures and documentation.
• Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
• Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining personal networks.
• Ability to work at pace and prioritise effectively.

Desirable

• Practical eDiscovery experience, including use of eDiscovery tools, construction of keyword and metadata searches, and analysis of digital material.
• Formal technical qualification, e.g. MCSE or equivalent.
• Experience of working on or with Public Inquiries and understanding the legal framework that they operate in. This could include experience working in a legal environment.

For more information on UKHSA please visit: UK Health Security Agency – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Benefits

• 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%
• Range of health and wellbeing support
• 26 days annual leave allowance increasing to 32 days after a 10-year service

Any move to UKHSA 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 Childcare Choices , 30 Hours Free Childcare, Tax-Free Childcare and More , Help with Costs , GOV.UK