Head of Information Security and Compliance

2 weeks ago

Oxford, United Kingdom Public Sector Resourcing Full time

**Head of Information Security and compliance**

**Inside IR35**

**Contract Term: 6 months**

**Contracting Authority: UKRI***

**Location: Harwell nr Oxford 3 days a week / Hybrid**

**SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.**

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As the **Head of Information Security and compliance **you will lead a team that has representation across STFC locations.

As a senior leader within the Digital Infrastructure Directorate 'DI' you will lead the creation of an enterprise security strategy, ensuring the policies and processes are in place to balance information security risks and enable digital services to be delivered effectively.

You will establish appropriate strategy, standards, controls, and implement polices to protect STFC’s information assets and technologies. You will advise on cyber risk and be responsible for coordinating STFC’s approach to cyber and information security.

You will collaborate with business leaders, leading academics, scientists, researchers, and innovation entrepreneurs to define practical policies that assist STFC’s strategic and operational outcomes whilst minimising cyber and information risk.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Chair relevant governance committees, when required deputising for the Director of Digital Infrastructure
- Oversee the development of STFC’s cyber approach for data protection, privacy, information security risk assessment, and management.
- Within DI, you will build and maintain a central understanding of the security status, develop and implement the cyber strategy, provide department wide threat assessment and define the risk appetite, act as the escalation point for risk decisions where necessary and initiate, plan and conduct detailed risk assessments following approved methods.
- Set, maintain, and audit the implementation of security policy and compliance standards for the department including advising on implications relevant for business continuity.
- Be responsible for information assurance activities of digital services to ensure ongoing security compliance. Including, mentoring, and upskilling of senior managers in cyber and information management issues.
- Lead your team to identify and undertake regular IT Health Checks including vulnerability and penetration testing in relevant areas, championing the culture of information security design throughout the lifecycle of IT services.
- Engage with project teams regarding security controls and ensure technical designs are reviewed to assess how the designs meet cyber and information assurance requirements.
- Ensure incident management plans are current and provide support for incident handling and reporting.
- Responsible for staff and budget management of your team.

**You’ll have relevant experience in**:

- Experience of working closely with scientific, academic, & digital innovators when identifying how a solution may be implemented consistent with the organisations' risk appetite.
- The ability to act as an ambassador of effective cyber security within a democratised technical environment.
- Practical experience of delivery, operation, and improvement of Cyber Security & Information Management in line with industry standards and frameworks, such as NIST, ISO/IEC 27002 etc.

**Knowledge & Expertise**
- The knowledge and expertise to overcome operational and technical challenges within an organisation of similar size and complexity to that of STFC / UKRI.
- Expertise in the selection, implementation, and operation of security tools, such as SIEM, IPS and IDS systems.

**Qualifications**

ITIL or equivalent IT Service Management qualification, or relevant experience.

**Conditions of work**
- The role is conditional on having or obtaining UK National Security Vetting Security Clearance (SC).
- An understanding that on occasion there will be a necessity to work under pressure to time critical security incidents including outside of business hours.- Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas._

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