Cyber Policy and Standards Lead

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Home Office Full time

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.

The Senior Cyber Policy Manager is part of a high performing, specialist 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.

Job description

Contributing to the vision, principles and strategy set down by the Head of GRC, ensuring that it reflects the needs of HOCS and the wider DepartmentLiaising with stakeholders within the Home Office to ensure that policies and standards are seamlessly deployedCoordinating, maintaining, and regularly reviewing the policies, standards, and HOCS-defined artefact templatesEnsuring appropriate change management and configuration control of the policies, standards, and HOCS-defined artefact templatesReviewing the latest cyber security standards, threat intelligence, frameworks, guidance ( NIST, ISO 27001, NCSC etc.) to ensure that the latest industry best practice is reflected throughout the Home Office�s own cyber policies and standardsIdentifying ways to continually improve the Home Office�s cyber policies and standards and acting as a point of escalation for the team.

The current building location for this role is Croydon and Manchester.

Occasional travel to other HO offices will be required.

Working Pattern �

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, are available.

Key Responsibilities �

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.Task and line management of a HEO in the team and up skill new and existing team members.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.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 the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) guidance and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framework.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

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, with the ability to bring different perspectives together to find innovative solutions to real-time problems.Delivering continuous improvement initiatives, proactively driving forward policy development and stakeholder engagement.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, as well as delivering regular presentations to a range of stakeholders to whom the subject matter may be novel.Working with diverse teams across multiple locations.

Desirable Criteria � �

Demonstrating close attention to detail, excellent organisational skills.Having an awareness of Cyber Security or a related policy area.

Behaviours

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

Communicating and InfluencingDelivering at PaceSeeing the Big PictureWorking Together

Benefits

In addition to your salary, a career with the Home Office offers a range of benefits, including:

Learning and development tailored to your role.A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service to 30 days.Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working.�This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.

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