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An exciting opportunity to be part of and lead a dynamic team within the Intelligence Directorate, designing and implementing bespoke software solutions which will be at the forefront of cutting edge technology, which will be utilised in the fight against Serious and Organised Crime.

The Intelligence Directorate aims to deliver a world class Intelligence Operating Model that leads the fight against serious and Organised Crime, utilising a professional workforce, collaborating with partners to exploit all sources of information to produce actionable and timely intelligence.

Through the application of advanced techniques your role would be to gather evidence and intelligence with a proactive approach for criminal investigations under authorised warrantry.

Techniques used would need to be utilised in accordance with legislation, and NCA policy, in order to disrupt and degrade criminal capability.

You would be required to deploy and protect sensitive techniques and tactics. Your role in this fast paced team will be to become the subject matter expert in software for mobile device exploitation. You will advise and provide assurance upon the use and disclosure of sensitive tactics whilst enabling operational activity.

***To be considered, you will need to successfully complete DV clearance before commencing the role and achieve DV STRAP clearance within the first 12 months in post. To meet the National Security Vetting requirements for this role you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 7 out of the past 10 years. For more information please see the Candidate information Pack***

Part of the role will be to lead a research and development team into emerging and novel techniques/tools for exploiting mobile devices.  Your role will also include the maintenance  and enhancement of existing software tools, closing capability gaps, designing and developing new software tools.

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

• Software engineering degree, or relevant degree in a computer/science/technology/engineering/mathematics related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience developing software in the TEI space.

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

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace

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

• Good knowledge of one or more modern programming languages (e.g. C, C#, Python, Java, Akka,Bamboo).
• Good knowledge of one or more desktop/mobile OS (e.g. Android, iOS, Linux, Windows).
• Experience in leading projects, solving problems, making effective decisions and delivering to tight deadlines in a cyber environment.
• Experience in developing and writing software solutions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

RAF Wyton, Huntingdon, PE28 2EA

Are you ready to work in one of the most interesting cyber security environments and share your experience to support national security?

The Cyber Defence & Risk (CyDR) team plays an integral role in protecting the UK against external and internal cyber security threats to ensure that our Armed Forces have the strong cyber defences they need.  The team is responsible for enabling Defence, through the provision of specialist cyber security services across UK Defence including industry partners, other Government Departments and working our international allies.

The Cyber Assurance and Advisory Services (CySAAS) team provides specialist cyber security advisory and assurance services to all high risk digital and military capability programmes across Defence.

With a fantastic growing team of military and civilian staff operating across the UK it is a great time to be a cyber security professional in the Ministry of Defence.

If you can see yourself contributing to the world of CySAAS the next chapter of your career may be with us!

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week

A Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA) of up to £9k per annum may be payable with this post, paid in increments upon reaching the required level of competence.

The Security Information Risk Advisor (SIRA) position will act in support of the Head CySAAS, providing high-quality cyber security risk analysis and reporting, across Defence, on behalf of MOD Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Our small, highly specialised team, within CySAAS, is responsible for providing a cyber defence technical consultancy service, to facilitate MOD’s understanding, prioritisation and management of cyber security risks at strategic, operational and tactical level.

The SIRA role is responsible for implementing, and management of, the Risk Balance Case (RBC) process, ensuring the timely implementation of risk balanced decisions by senior staff. This will include the management of a triage process and risk surgery and continuous development and improvement of the RBC process.

In this role you’ll be supporting the team’s activities by using your technical knowledge, to provide advice and guidance, playing an important part in the collation of Defence’s cyber risks, furthering the understanding of risks the Defence cyber community are carrying and enable their reduction.

Our commitment to your development is fundamental at Defence Digital. We will provide as many learning opportunities as we can, allowing you to gain industry recognised qualifications (such as CISSP, CISMP, CRISC), as well as in-house training within your field and beyond. We’ll support your continuous professional development within the role from day 1.

Joining Defence Digital enables you to take advantage of our excellent benefits package, including flexible working, discount schemes, a generous leave allowance and a market-leading Civil Service pension.

Our team is growing. This is a fantastic time to join us and be part of our journey!

Responsibilities

A Cyber Security Risk Manager is expected to:

• Undertake risk management activities within a given area of practice or expertise, usually within established security and risk management governance structures.

• Support the analysis and derivation of business-supporting security needs, undertake Cyber Security related risk assessments, conduct tailored threat assessment and other risk management activities, and ensure activities are consistent with applicable regulations and legislation.

• Provide tailored advice to a range of stakeholders on how to remedy identified risks by proportionately applying security capabilities, using published guidance, standards, and drawing on a range of experts as well as personal expertise.

• Provide security advice that highlights Cyber Security related risks, so risk or service owners can make well-informed and auditable decisions.

As SIRA, specific responsibilities will include:

• Provision of analysis and recommendations in support of Risk Decisions for RBCs and MOD CIO; and departmental information related risks in support of the Risk Committee.

• Support regular meetings/reports to senior leadership.

• Supporting the departmental RBC process, ensuring submissions are tracked and monitored to agreed timelines for which this role is accountable.

• Support continued business process improvements in the delivery of risk and the RBC process, through the exploitation of new ways of working and modern technology, continued improvement of the RBC function within the Defence Assurance Risk Tool (DART).

• Identifying trends in submitted RBCs, co-ordinating interventions to obviate problem trends and to advance beneficial trends and advising on possible action and resultant policy changes.

• Supporting effective and timely triage process and Risk Surgery.

• Support the provision of MI on the RBCs received and processed.

• Whilst this position does not currently have line-management responsibility of staff, it may be a requirement in the future.

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

• Desirable qualifications in Information Risk Management and/or Information Security (e.g., CISMP / CISSP / CRISC) – training will be provided where required.
• A good understanding of providing information risk assessment and risk management.
• Experience or knowledge of managing risk across an organisation.
• Excellent relationship-building and all-round communication skills.
• The ability to quickly assess information and make recommendations.
• The ability to form effective partnerships across the organisation.

Allowances: A Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA) of up to £9k per annum may be payable with this post, paid in increments upon reaching the required level of competence.

Dependent on the business need, there may be a requirement to travel to meetings within the UK, including overnight stays (or potentially occasional overseas visits).

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station, which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this).  If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

If not already held, successful candidates will be required to undergo 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
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions

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

• Working level knowledge of Information risk assessment and risk management

Alongside your salary of £33,830, Ministry of Defence contributes £9,134 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
• Flexible working options
• 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

MOD Main Building, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HB

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

Desirable Experience & Skills

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

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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.

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service

Alongside your salary of £26,009, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,022 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
• The possibility to gain a financial in-year reward after successful completion of six months probation and a further in-year reward after your 12 month anniversary and throughout your career with the MGS.

Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford

#DESNZ

The responsibilities for the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero for 2023 are as follows:

• Delivering security of energy supply
• Ensuring properly functioning energy markets
• Encouraging greater energy efficiency
• Seizing the opportunities of net zero to lead the world in new green industries

For 2023, our priorities are:

• Ensure security of energy supply this winter, next winter and in the longer-term – bringing down energy bills and reducing inflation.
• Ensure the UK is on track to meet its legally binding Net Zero commitments and support economic growth by significantly speeding up delivery of network infrastructure and domestic energy production.
• Improve the energy efficiency of UK homes, businesses and public sector buildings to meet the 15% demand reduction ambition.
• Deliver current schemes to support energy consumers with their bills and develop options for long-term reform to improve how the electricity market works for families and businesses.
• Seize the economic benefits of Net Zero, including the jobs and growth created through investment in new green industries.
• Pass the Energy Bill to support the emerging CCUS and hydrogen sectors; to update the governance of the energy system; and to reduce the time taken to consent offshore wind.

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.

Are you interested in joining a high-performing team of security professionals?  If you are ready to challenge yourself and become a member of a specialist security team, then we have a great opportunity for you!

We need an organised, proactive, and flexible individual to a provide Cyber Security Risk Management Lead functions to two Departments, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, Department for Science Innovation & Technology and in the Departmental Security Unit (DSU).

The Cyber Security Risk Manager Lead identifies, understands, and mitigates cyber-related risks. They will identify and evaluate security risks to information, systems and processes owned and used by both organisations, and proactively provide appropriate advice, drawing on a wide variety of sources, to stakeholders across the organisations and at a variety of levels. They will provide the appropriate guidance to risk, service owners and seniors, allowing them to make well informed, risk-based decisions.

This role is full time only. Applicants who wish to work an alternative pattern are welcome to apply however your preferred working pattern may not be available and you should discuss this with the vacancy holder before applying.

• Independently undertake risk management activities within a given area of practice or expertise, usually within established security and risk management governance structures

• Lead the analysis and derivation of business-supporting security needs, undertake Cyber Security related risk assessments, conduct tailored threat assessment and other risk management activities, and ensure activities are consistent with applicable regulations and legislation.

• Provide tailored advice to a range of stakeholders on how to remedy identified risks by proportionately applying security capabilities, using published guidance, standards, and drawing on a range of experts as well as personal expertise.

• Provide expert security advice that highlights Cyber Security related risks, so risk or service owners can make well-informed and auditable decisions.

• Support the planning, development, implementation and management of organisation-wide policies, processes, and procedures for the management of cyber security risk. Protecting the organisation’s assets and business services.

• Review internal controls following any security breach, providing advice on how to remediate any vulnerabilities discovered. Agreeing and overseeing remedial solutions, controls and safeguards that are the most appropriate and beneficial for the organisation.

• Lead, mentor, and support others to perform to their full potential and driving succession planning.

• Be part in an on-call rota providing out of hours cover, including public and bank holidays. We will provide training and pay an allowance for the time you are on duty.

Skills and experience 

Have a demonstrable passion for Cyber & Information Security, with the following skills or experience aligned with the Government Security Profession Career Framework:

• Information Risk Assessment & Risk Management: be able to review risk assessments using appropriate methods and can inspect and report security characteristics of systems.

• Applied security capability: Elicit security requirements based on straightforward approaches such as threat/vulnerability/impact analysis. Can use control frameworks appropriately understanding their strengths and limitations.  

• Threat understanding – keep up to date with the cyber threat landscape and be able to understand, contextualise and communicate any potential impact to the business

• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and articulate threat intelligence and risk assessments in terms of their impact to the business.

• Build effective relationships with senior stakeholders in order to raise awareness of the importance of security issues, as well as communicating the outcome of audits and investigations.

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

• Working Together

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

• Risk Assessment – Methodologies and Frameworks used to Risk Assess
• Risk Management – Process of managing risk identified as potentially affecting the organisation
• Threat understanding – Understanding the cyber threat landscape and associated impact on the business. Ability to identify appropriate mitigation
• Critical thinking – Analysis of facts and evidence in order to form a judgement by the application of rational, unbiased analyses and evaluation

Alongside your salary of £50,305, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy contributes £13,582 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

BEIS 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 (from September 2021, depending on how the public health guidance evolves).

Liverpool The Capital

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.

Home Office Intelligence is comprised of a number of teams involved in the collection and analysis of border and immigration related intelligence. The Command has colleagues based across the UK and international locations who are focused on threats related to Organised Crime, National Security and Revenue. The Command’s remit is to deliver Intelligence Collection, Development, Analysis, Targeting (Data Analytics) and Watchlisting capabilities within the Home Office and to its partners across Government and Law Enforcement.

The Marriage Referral Assessment Unit [MRAU] operates within the Home Office Intelligence Command. This is a specialist team that handles referrals made by registrars under the UK’s marriage and civil partnership referral scheme. The team manages Intelligence-based risk profiles to identify referrals that are high risk for sham relationships and then tasks such referrals for an investigative response.

As a member of the MRAU, you will be expected to work both independently and as part of a team. You will prioritise specific tasks to meet service level agreements in delivery of the organisation’s high priority aims.

The Administrative Officer is responsible for processing referrals from registrars under the statutory scheme, ensuring that the resulting casework is handled efficiently, accurately, and lawfully. This includes assessing referrals which are scored as high-risk for sham marriage, using evidence-based criteria to task referrals to Immigration and Enforcement Teams for further investigation action.

You will strive to provide a quality service through effective management of written correspondence with customers referred under the scheme.

You will maintain and develop relationships with internal and external partners including designated registry offices throughout the UK. The role involves regular communication with partners by phone, including managing an enquiries line.

The Administrative Office will play a pivotal role in supporting the organisation’s key priority of deterring individuals from entering a sham marriage within the UK.

Essential criteria

A successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:

• The ability to prioritise workload/tasks in order to meet organisation deadlines

• Excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills

• The ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with partners internally and externally.

• A proven track record to plan, organise and manage time to deliver the best quality and efficient service.

• Understanding of sensitive data handling in accordance with business procedures and/or legislation.

• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of roles involving the application of the Public Sector Equality Duty, or equivalent provisions.

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

• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together

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

• Managing a Quality Service

Alongside your salary of £22,400, Home Office contributes £6,048 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%

Hybrid

About us

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the independent regulator of information rights. In a data-driven world, we provide advice, guidance, and support to organisations enabling compliance with their obligations, as well as protecting individuals and their personal data.

As an employer, we are passionate about making a positive difference to the lives and careers of our people, and we empower you to be curious, impactful, collaborative and respectful.

About the role

As a department of skilled intelligence professionals, we use information from a wide range of internal and external sources to produce high quality, meaningful intelligence analysis. This analysis, through a suite of relevant intelligence products, is used to inform and lead tactical and strategic decisions across the office, allowing the ICO to prioritise work where it has greatest value and impact.

The Lead Intelligence Officer is responsible for conducting general and themed research and analysis, developing, and completing intelligence collection plans, understanding, and interpreting intelligence products, building intelligence pictures and identifying new and emerging trends to facilitate a risk-based approach to regulatory activity.

Key responsibilities include:

• To undertake detailed research and analysis to inform the focus of office wide ICO activity.

• To collect, evaluate and analyse data from various sources, with a view to identifying trends, resulting in the prioritisation and direction of ICO resources both at the tactical and strategic level.

• To provide intelligence support to significant ICO priority workstreams including criminal and  civil investigations.

• To produce appropriate intelligence products that include strategic and tactical assessments, problem, and target profiles.

• To maximise  the use of structured analytical techniques to understand, develop and communicate concerns in relation to a range of information rights issues.
• To identify intelligence requirements and formulate intelligence collection plans to focus intelligence gathering and inform resourcing decisions.

• To exploit intelligence sources that will

enable us to make informed choices about the action we take and the interventions we make  to improve standards of information rights practice.

• To liaise clearly and confidently at all levels throughout the organisation and with regulatory bodies and other stakeholders nationally and internationally, presenting analysis as appropriate.

• To develop and maintain legislative expertise, keeping abreast of developments in data protection, freedom of information and associated legislation. To be conversant with other related legislation and political, social, technical, and legal developments that may impact the work of the Intelligence Department and wider ICO.

About you

• Educated to degree level or Substantial work experience demonstrating graduate level ability

• Worked in a similar intelligence or analytical environment in a large organisation.

• Experience of applying data protection or freedom of information legislation, or other similarly complex legislation.

• Carried out duties / work involving research tasks including analysis of information, monitoring patterns and trends, and associated administrative functions.

• Ability to rapidly analyse and understand large data sets

• Experience of preparing/presenting  complex reports and producing statistics/charts etc.

• Ability to use and assess computer software applications relating to the charting and analysis of intelligence to assist in the identification of patterns and trends.

• Able to demonstrate an analytical approach to problem solving.

• Experience of liaising with all levels of staff, presenting analysis as appropriate.

• Experience of providing advice to managers.

• Prepared to maintain standards of professional practice and to keep abreast of changes in legislation, policies, and procedures within the intelligence environment.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

The ICO is committed to promoting and enhancing equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are focused on developing a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve and together we are building an inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference. We are championing this through our Equality Diversity and Inclusion Board together with a number of staff networks. Read more about our commitment on our website.

If you have a disability or impairment and have difficulty using our online application system, please email the HR team at [email protected] who can arrange for you to submit an application via an alternative method.

Please visit ico.jobs for full details, including salary and benefits.

Bristol, South West England, BS2 0ES : Cardiff, Wales, CF10 1EP : Salford, North West England, M3 5BS : Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, NE98 1ZZ : Telford, West Midlands (England), TF3 4NT

At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.

We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you.

Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role.

See what it’s like to work at HMRC: find out more about us or ask our colleagues a question. Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is one of the largest Government Departments and one of the UK’s biggest organisations. Almost every individual and business in the UK is a direct customer of HMRC. We collect in excess of £500 billion a year in revenue from over 50 million customers across the UK.

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of security risk management in HMRC and to be part of the Government Security Function, working to keep the UK safe.

Working with us means making a real impact on millions of people’s lives. It also means gaining new skills, growing your knowledge and taking your expertise further across a range of fascinating and vitally important work. This role is aligned to the Government Security Profession Career Framework: – Risk Management at Principal level, part of the Corporate Enablers security specialism.

This is an exciting time to join the HMRC Security community. Our mission is to reduce HMRC’s security risk exposure whilst enabling HMRC to meet its business objectives effectively and to maintain public confidence in our services. We do this by providing expert security risk-based assurance, oversight and challenge.

Working within HMRC Security’s Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) function, you will be responsible for; collating and analysing enterprise security risk data, presentation of enterprise risk data for senior managers, helping to identify trends and areas of concern or improvement. Outputs in the form of dashboards and reports will be used to increase security risk maturity and enhance accountability across the department.

GRC’s Enterprise Security Risk, Transformation Project, is currently developing high level security risk dashboards and a Security Risk Analysis Hub, to assist in the assessment and promotion of HMRC’s enterprise wide security issues. A key element of the role of the Enterprise Security Risk Business Manager will be the development and ongoing maintenance of these tools.

Purpose of role:

• To develop and maintain close working relationships with stakeholders to obtain high quality security risk data.
• Develop and maintain systems and processes for gathering and storing security risk data
• Aggregating data from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive assessment of risk exposure
• Maintaining a library of relevant security data, ensuring it is accessible for those that need to access and use this data.
• Provide clear and concise material for senior leaders that clearly articulates security performance and concerns.

Post holder expectations;

• Strong organisational skills are a critical element of this role, as is the ability to prioritise and manage a workload, analyse complex information, present recommendations and make effective decisions.
• Experience of building a network of colleagues and contacts to achieve progress.
• You must be able to show evidence that you are organised and can run a number of areas of work concurrently.
• You should be able to demonstrate that you are able to work with minimal direction and have the ability to make risk-based decisions based on the evidence available to you at the time.
• Experienced in using data handling and presentation tools such as Excel and Power BI.

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

• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving

Alongside your salary of £41,782, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £11,281 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%

Cheltenham

Are you an experienced Security Architect, or a Security Engineer, Technical/Cloud Architect keen to move into a Security Architect role? Looking for a unique challenge?

GCHQ is offering an exciting opportunity to come and join our team of experienced technical Security Architects, you’ll consult on the secure design, build, and be involved in the operation of some of the most important systems in the UK.  

We work on a wide range of projects critical to our business, helping pioneer a new kind of security to stay ahead of our adversaries. We face a variety of novel and complex technical challenges and with the help of our research teams and through collaboration with our partners, we provide vital up-to-date guidance on the application of cutting-edge technologies.

You’ll combine broad technical and security skills with strong business acumen, consultancy, and communication skills. We’re looking for people who are experienced in the design and build of a range of systems and services using modern technologies and cloud services. You’ll be able to identify vulnerabilities in systems design and work with Engineers, System Owners, and Seniors to explain these issues and identify alternative approaches. 

You’ll have plenty of opportunities to collaborate and influence widely within the UK Government and beyond. Working with customers as a Security Architect, you’ll take the initiative, in the pursuit to balance security versus agility. 

While the role is challenging, our flexible working policy ensures a healthy work-life balance. We accommodate compressed hours, mixed office/home working or job share options, balanced against business needs. We actively support ongoing personal development through training opportunities combined with a strong team dynamic which promotes discussion and sharing of ideas.

You’ll have experience analysing customer requirements and making design decisions across a range of technologies and business contexts such as regulated industries, the commercial sector or wider government. With a broad understanding of security challenges, their potential impact and mitigation options, you’ll be comfortable influencing stakeholders to make informed risk-based decisions. You’ll have an appreciation of customers’ needs and experience delivering technology solutions to address their concerns. You may have contributed to development of strategy, policy, patterns or principles to drive an organisations response to new challenges. A passion for technology is vital – you’ll be motivated to maintain and develop your technical skills, learn from others, and share your knowledge with the wider technical community. You’ll be comfortable working as part of a team on a broad range of projects, collaborating on solving problems and sharing ideas.

Training and Development

At GCHQ we’re proud to offer an inclusive and supportive working environment. As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we are committed to helping you fulfil your potential. We value your ability to learn and to adapt to new challenges, so we’ll invest in your skills and the way you like to learn, from books, study, courses, conferences to stretching work with support of the team.
 
You’ll be encouraged to drive and shape your own personal development and you’ll have access to learning and development opportunities tailored to your role. You’ll be supported to gain professional qualifications and certifications and to seek out opportunities to continually learn and develop, supported through career development guidance, mentoring, and buddying in addition to formal training opportunities.

Rewards and Benefits

You’ll receive a starting salary of £36,836, you may also be eligible for additional annual skills payments of between £8,000 and £13,000 subject to assessment at interview and revalidation, and we may offer you a one-off recruitment bonus, plus other benefits including:

• 25 Days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays.
• Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme.
• Interest-free season ticket loan.
• Excellent pension scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Facilities such as a subsidised gym and restaurant, and on-site coffee bars.
• Paid parental and adoption leave.

Marham, East of England, PE33 9NP

The role involves being an integral part of the Special Access Programme Security Team that ensures that a high level of security is delivered to protect the F-35 air system. The post will be based within one of the F-35 high security facilities and is an important enable for the F-35 pilots and operations staff to plan their missions in a secure environment and on accredited and assured information systems. The role will require interaction across the F-35 Lightning Enterprise to ensure network and security system security is maintained to exacting high standards and sustain the accredited status to operate.
This post is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of this security area at the very spearhead of the Royal Air Force’s combat air capability.

This post is offered at 37 hours per week.

1. Provide the overall security administration and management of the SAP facilities (SAPFs) by ensuring that the accreditation/certification is in accordance with UK & US guidelines. This includes facilitating electronic processing systems authorised to handle classified
2. Establish and maintain personnel security and access controls including clearance/access 
   arrangements for personnel accessing the SAP.
3. Deliver all types of compartment information related security education and training relating to the SAP to ensure personnel are knowledgeable of UK/US regulations and are aware of the appropriate control of all levels of classified information and material.
4. Managing provision of on-site security of compartmented information and material 
   contained within the SPAFs including developing procedures for responding to security 
   incidents, for investigation, reporting security infractions or incidents, as appropriate.
5. Review, develop and maintain documentation to support accreditation and certification of SAPFs and applicable Information Systems.
6. Ensure all SAP documentation held in the UK is marked in Accordance with extant rules & regulations.
7. Ensure accountability for the records and periodic inventory of all compartmented 
   information materials held within SAPFs including management of annual UK/US inspection holdings.
8. Assist in the conduct of security audits & inspections
9. When required, act as courier in assistance to other team members to facilitate the manual transmission of SAP material.
10. To oversee the management of the UK information Assurance ensuring that information systems used to process SAP information comply with the UK and US security regulations.
11. Oversee the IAM and system administrators ensuring they receive the appropriate technical and security training to carry out their duties, including the continued development of the training materials for information systems
12. Conduct weekly audits and surveys
13. Ensure the IAM produces and maintains all UK information system security plans and associated documentation for RMF (Risk Management Framework).
14. Co-ordinate, develop and implement local security policy guidance specifying procedures that are consistent with maintaining adequate segregation and protection of the compartmented information stored within SAPs
15. Support ISSM/ISSO to the generation of SyOps for IS
16. Manage all project security risks• Ensure adherence to UK & US National security guidelines in accordance with the UK SAPCO MOU, JSP440, JAFAN 6/0, RMF, and the UK/US JSF Access Management Control Plan.
17. Line-management responsibilities for the administration and training of the Security Admin Assistants, while overseeing and ensuring the security office meets the objectives of the organisation;
18. Managing a Monday to Friday back shift pattern to cover a 0600 – 2359 hrs operating window.
19. Operating a 24/7 call-out roster
20. Report to the GSSO any significant changes or risks which could impact the facility.

1.Essential: Developed Vetting (or ability to obtain and maintain DV clearance).

2. Ability to be read onto STRAP.

3. Desirable: Security professions SQEP.

4. Mandatory: Programme level access.

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

• Leadership
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Managing a Quality Service

Alongside your salary of £33,830, Ministry of Defence contributes £9,134 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%

Croydon – Lunar House, Manchester Soapworks

Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) designs, builds and operates services that are critical to the Home Office. From solutions that help manage our borders to services that support policing and counter terrorism, DDaT is at the front line of making the Home Office a modern and capable department at a time of unprecedented global change.

As the Senior Cyber Policy Manager in Home Office Cyber Security (HOCS) you will gain experience of being part of a high performing team that is responsible for the development, implementation and management of policies and standards that underpin the designing, running and decommissioning of technical solutions across the Home Office. Your role will support the delivery of high profile, transformational technology projects, at a time of unprecedented technological and political change.

Your role will report to the Cyber Policy and Standards Manager but on a day to day basis you will be engaging and collaborating with technical experts, stakeholders and peers within the Home Office and other Government Departments to ensure that policies and standards are developed effectively, communicated and implemented clearly and are understood and complied with. You will ensure that our policies align with other policy areas where appropriate, and support gap analysis work to develop new policies for your area.

You will be proactive, detail-oriented, and able to communicate effectively. You will be logical and critical in your thinking, with the ability to assess the impact of policies. You will additionally have a keen focus on continuous improvement to ensure that policies and standards meet departmental and Home Office needs.

Policy specialists within DDaT align to the Civil Service Policy Profession. Is this sentence completed?

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

•    Communicating and implementing HOCS policies and standards

•    Devising a schedule of policy / standard compliance reviews and conducting them in collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders across DDaT and wider Home Office portfolios

•    Contributing to the central co-ordination, maintenance and review of policies, standards and other business area artefacts / templates to deliver continuous improvement

•    Developing procedures for appropriate change management and configuration control of policies, standards, business area artefacts / templates

•    Collaborating with Home Office and other Government Department peers to align and deconflict with their related policy areas and support any gap analysis that requires development of new policies.

Due to the nature of this role/business needs, this post is available on full-time and flexible working only but not on part time basis.

Hybrid Working

Hybrid working enables employees to work partly in their workplace(s) and partly at home.  A hybrid working pattern may be available, where business needs allow. Applicants can discuss what this means with the vacancy holder if they have specific questions.  Some occasional travel will be required.

You will also be expected to carry out the following day to day activities:

•    Contributing to the development of guidance on policy implementation

•    Keeping up to date with wider policy developments / standards / legislation / technology to ensure policy artefacts remain current

•    Keeping up to date with the latest industry / policy area standards, frameworks and guidance to ensure best practice is reflected in policies and standards across the Home Office e.g the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) guidance and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framework.

Essential Criteria:

You will have a passion for the development and implementation of policy, with the following skills or proven experience in:

•    Working in HOCS, including implementing associated policies and standards, understanding best practice in your area of expertise and identifying, resolving and escalating conflicts and risks to appropriate team within HOCS

•    Building, co-ordinating and managing complex stakeholder relationships across DDaT and wider Home Office

•    Delivering continuous improvement initiatives

•    Analysing and interpreting legislation and other key information

•    Demonstrating strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor your messaging to meet the needs of different audiences

•    Working with diverse teams across multiple locations

The skills outlined above are reflective of the specialist skills listed in the Home Office Enabling Professions Skills and Development Model.

Desirable Criteria:

Ideally you will also have the following skills or some experience in:

•    Demonstrating close attention to detail, excellent organisational skills

•    Working in a technology focussed industry / environment

•    Having an awareness of Cyber Security or a related policy area

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

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

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

• Cyber Policy

Alongside your salary of £39,000, Home Office contributes £10,530 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%