Senior Personnel Security Advisor

at  Cabinet Office

JOB DESCRIPTION

The postholder will be responsible for the delivery of a challenging and exciting programme of work, providing advice, training and operational response to the department on some of its most complex, sensitive and important personnel and protective security issues. There will be opportunities to work with other members of the team across the full range of security disciplines within this role including physical security, classified working and incident management. Key stakeholders include the National Technical Authorities, Government Security Group, Government Security Centres, Police amongst others. Through their subject matter expertise the role holder will be responsible for (this list is not exhaustive):

• Assess, manage and mitigate personnel security threats and risks.
• Reducing the risk of insider activity within the department.
• Deliver security education and awareness activities using a range of mediums.
• Developing and implementing a programme of work to positively enhance the security culture across the Cabinet Office.
• Provide security advice and guidance on personnel security issues including overseas travel.
• Drafting and delivering security briefings.
• Development and implementation of security policies and procedures.
• Build and utilise networks and stakeholders across the department and government to help deliver an effective security service.
• Supporting with other workstreams across the Security & Resilience Team as required.
• Line management of 1 EO.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

• The successful candidate will have a firm understanding of personnel security risks and mitigation strategies with direct experience of mitigating the insider threat.
• They will be comfortable developing and implementing a culture and awareness programme aiming to protect people and assets and reduce the insider threat.
• They will have outstanding interpersonal/communication skills in order to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to engender trust, cooperation and buy in.
• Proven, demonstrable experience of developing, influencing and implementing policies across boundaries and through multi-discipline teams to deliver successful outcomes.
• Outstanding leadership and management skills, with the ability to mentor, motivate and drive the performance of the Security Team remit.
• The capacity and capability to apply good judgement and respond to complex, dynamic situations. A high degree of resilience and personal credibility, and confidentiality. Together with enthusiasm and commitment to deliver.
• Proven and demonstrable experience of managing and delivering projects within taut time frames and budgetary limitations.

APPLICATION PROCESS

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess behaviours and experience. If you wish to apply for this vacancy, you must submit your application by 23:55 on Sunday 17th November 2024.
When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

At sift, you will be assessed against the following:

• CV
• Personal statement (250 Word Count)

Please align your personal statement to demonstrate your experience against the job description.
At interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:
Communicating and influencing
Leadership
Changing and improving
Delivering at pace

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) (opens in a new window)
• 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 (opens in a new window)

The Cabinet Office Purpose is:

• To maintain the integrity of the Union, coordinate the security of the realm and sustain a flourishing democracy;
• To support the design and implementation of HM Government’s policies and the Prime Minister’s priorities
• To ensure the delivery of the finest public services by attracting and developing the best public servants and improving the efficiency of government

At the heart of this are our Cabinet Office values. To deliver our Purpose and help make Cabinet Office a great place to work, we all commit to:-

• Treating everyone with Respect
• Actively Collaborate
• Build Trus

The postholder will be responsible for the delivery of a challenging and exciting programme of work, providing advice, training and operational response to the department on some of its most complex, sensitive and important personnel and protective security issues. There will be opportunities to work with other members of the team across the full range of security disciplines within this role including physical security, classified working and incident management. Key stakeholders include the National Technical Authorities, Government Security Group, Government Security Centres, Police amongst others. Through their subject matter expertise the role holder will be responsible for (this list is not exhaustive):

• Assess, manage and mitigate personnel security threats and risks.
• Reducing the risk of insider activity within the department.
• Deliver security education and awareness activities using a range of mediums.
• Developing and implementing a programme of work to positively enhance the security culture across the Cabinet Office.
• Provide security advice and guidance on personnel security issues including overseas travel.
• Drafting and delivering security briefings.
• Development and implementation of security policies and procedures.
• Build and utilise networks and stakeholders across the department and government to help deliver an effective security service.
• Supporting with other workstreams across the Security & Resilience Team as required.
• Line management of 1 EO