JOB SUMMARY

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
Home Office Digital, Data and Technology designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles and property.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Quality Standards and Assurance (QSA) and Risk assurer, you will be responsible for supporting the build, implementation and ongoing delivery of a consistent “3 lines of defence” assurance model and risk framework across Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession.
This means providing independent and constructive risk and assurance support across the broad and varied scope of functions. QSA is an emerging capability within Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession with a mission to improve quality and reduce risk for our users by focussing effort on the right standards, with controls, measures, and effective assurance practices.
Your goal is to build a best-in-class risk and assurance approach and you will be playing a vital role in ultimately supporting the successful delivery of critical Home Office services to the public.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

• o Quality Assurance (QUAS) – Level 3
• o Quality Management (QUMG) – Level 3
• o Audit (AUDT) – Level 3
• o Risk Management (BURM) – Level 3
• o Specialist Advice (TECH) – Level 3
• o Domain Experience – Level 3

SELECTION PROCESS DETAILS

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.

• Application – by Sunday 7th September 2025

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:

• CV
• Personal Statement (maximum 1250 words).

Your CV should consist of your career history, qualifications and skills/experience, including any key achievements in each role. Your CV will be scored against the experience required for the role as noted within the essential criteria.
The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.
For guidance and information on how to construct your application (CV, Personal Statement and Behaviours), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.
2. Sift – week commencing Monday 8th September 2025
The sift will be held on the Personal Statement and CV.
Should a high volume of applications be received, the sift will be conducted only on the Personal Statement.
3. Interview – week commencing Monday 29th September 2025
If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will assess Behaviours and Technical skills (as listed in the job advert).

Interviews will be carried out via video. Candidates will be required to have access to:

• A laptop (personal or work) with a working webcam
• Good internet connection
• Microsoft Teams

For guidance and information on what to expect and how to prepare for an interview, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers.

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

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Supporting independent risk and assurance review activities across Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession, including helping to manage and mitigate risks faced by DDaT.
• Leading internal review assurance activities to demonstrate alignment to the HO risk framework.
• Engaging with subject matter experts to form effective internal risk and assurance teams.
• Reporting and tracking risks and integrating with 2nd line assurance activities.
• Identifying and addressing root causes to problems early when it’s easier and more cost-effective to correct.
• Contributing to a culture of quality management around ‘what’ is built and ‘how’ things are built and maintained, involving all members of Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession.
• Monitoring dashboards, data, and process outcomes and analysing data for triggered interventions and risk to determine the level of assurance and mitigation required.
• Creating intelligent risk and assurance reports for senior management and stakeholders to aid risk management and data-led decision making.