JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for people with a passion for leadership, wanting to do interesting and creative roles that help civil servants and public sector leaders to succeed in their roles and support citizens by collaborating across the public sector.
You will provide business, science, and people leadership driving transformative change, innovation, and science excellence for APHA.
Are you someone who can lead and manage change in a challenging and dynamic environment?
Do you want a role safeguarding standards of animal and plant health and welfare?
Would you like to be part of an agency where we value managers responsible for building and maintaining employee morale, helping employees reach their full potential and inspiring employee loyalty?
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and works on behalf of the Scottish Government and Welsh Government. Our diverse teams of over 3,000 skilled and committed professionals (dispersed over 90 sites) come together to provide research, advice and support to UK Government for safeguarding animal, public and plant health for benefit of the environment and economy.
This role acts as the APHA security intelligent client lead for the Weybridge Estate and the wider APHA corporate portfolio. The role will lead on the mitigation of APHA security risks in relation to physical and personnel security issues (considering cyber) holistically aligned to Defra Security standards, or developing bespoke policies for APHA in conjunction with Defra as required.
The role is responsible for ensuring APHA’s continuous security improvement in working closely with Security and Property colleagues within Defra in an intelligent client role; you will support and advise colleagues in delivering a collaborative and holistic approach to security risk management and lead on management of security risks and incidents associated with APHAs business operations. You will support line managers and team leaders with their own security responsibilities, helping to build a strong security culture.
This is an exciting and meaningful opportunity to join the Government Security Profession, playing a significant part in ensuring the APHA is meeting its wide-ranging obligations. transformation, and establishing a new security function for APHA aligned to Government Functional Standard Security 007 (GovS 007).

QUALIFICATIONS

BTEC Level 5 qualification/certification in Physical Security or Risk Management (aligned to the Security Institute Diploma in Security Management); or ability to demonstrate equivalent workplace experience.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Developing and maintaining an intelligent client relationship with Defra to ensure APHA’s security needs and requirements are met.
• Reporting on security risks and updates to APHA and Defra Boards.
• Ensuring that industry good practice security principles and requirements are embedded across all aspects of security within APHA.
• Driving strong security culture across APHA, ensuring effective security practices are implemented and maintained.
• Understanding business and information risk context in relation to physical, personnel and cyber security threats and impacts; (whilst not being responsible for Cyber Security).
• Being a role model for the security community and modelling Civil Service values to foster and develop the team’s professional capability.
• Owning and continuous improvement of the Weybridge Threat Vulnerability Risk Analysis and Operating Requirements in collaboration with other stakeholders.
• Provide operational management, continuous improvement and direction for the APHA Security team (comprising of 2 x G7 and an SEO).
• Provide leadership and guidance to the security team, building capacity and capability and play a valued role in our organisation wide Senior Leadership Team.
• The successful candidate will hold or be able to obtain DV clearance.