Personnel Security Consultant

Personnel Security Consultant - Vetting

**Job Req ID**:29254**Posting Date**:7 Feb 2024**Function**:Legal and Governance**Location**:Watling Street, Bletchley, United Kingdom**Salary**:Competitive**Why this role matters**
Our purpose is to Connect for Good. There are no limits to what people can do. If we only connect. And as technology changes our world, the connections people make can be simple or complex, helpful or harmful, connections for good or for bad. That's why we're here - we connect for good. We champion these connections and harness the power of technology to help solve some of the world's biggest challenges, from climate change to cyber security. We empower people and organisations to get more out of this emerging world, removing limits and unlocking their potential.
The role requires me to work with both internal and external people, including those in sensitive roles. Key stakeholders include, GSS, their supporting personnel, the GSS customer base and key civil servants.
Be an expert contact maker and communicator, creating dynamic and smooth operational interactions with all areas. I will also manage and co-ordinate new, renewal and ongoing management of around 1000 cases.

**What you'll be doing**
I’ll be looking after the government personnel National Security Vetting (NSV) for all BT and its contractors. Occasionally there will be additional work for the HR units that form all areas covered by HMG Vetting. These areas include:

- Involvement with the new joiner and on-boarding process from an NSV perspective, guide new recruits through the end-to-end course
- Review all GSS clearances, including those outside the CFU and their customers to move all relevant clearances and transfer them to the pertinent authorities.
- To be the contact with the customers with regards to the approvals, ongoing management, and refusals process
- Handle GSS travel requests alongside the generic BT Travel Security requirements.
- Manage the leavers process so that the customers are notified correctly of dates and reasons behind leaving.
- To be the main point of contact and customer relations for GSS client vetting groups
- Handle and manage the drug testing requirements for the customer(s)
- Oversee the International Visits process.
- The role will also include:

- Regularly working from GSS locations
- A level of National Security Vetting (NSV) will need to be obtained and maintained throughout the duration of holding this position

**Skills and Experience**
- Training is given due to the uniqueness of the role. However, basics in all BT systems is a must as well as attaining and maintaining security clearance is a requirement of your role.
- You will have the ability to manage a high volume of work, sometimes under time pressures.
- Critical thinking, you need to have a problem-solving approach and open mind in order to reduce the risk to BT but support commercial business aims.

**About us**
- BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.- Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.- We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’- We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.- This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.**A FEW POINTS TO NOTE**:

- Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.**DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?