Senior Personnel Security Vetting Officer

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Department for International Trade Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 290515**Salary**:

- £31,443 - £36,624- HEO: National: £31,443 - £33,097; London: £35,008 - £36,624**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DIT - COO: Finance, Business & Shared Services**Type of role**:

- Risk Management
- Security**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- Darlington, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
This role provides an exciting opportunity to work within an innovative, professional, and evolving unit, and to play an important part in delivering security functions.

The successful applicant will be responsible for ensuring that Department for Business and Trade, (DBT) has the appropriate personnel security policies and processes in place, and that national security vetting including aftercare is carried out efficiently and effectively.

As an HEO in a developing and dynamic environment you will play an active role in delivering these services. You will assist in building and implementing the Personnel security Strategy, support our insider threat group and actively help to role map the roles within DBT.

This will also include the conducting of investigative interviews, and briefing staff on security vulnerabilities. You will also need to be aware of, and consider where, security risks to the business can be managed in post.

You will be trusted with highly sensitive and personal information, which you must handle securely in line with data protection rules whilst maintaining a professional and understanding approach with applicants, considering the sensitive nature of the information being shared.

As a manager you will provide advice and direction to others within the team to support the timely and efficient delivery of decisions. This role is highly suited to a person who can make difficult risk-based decisions, conduct investigations in a sensitive way, and motivate and build the capabilities of staff under challenging circumstances.

This is an interesting and varied role the successful applicant will manage casework by assessing personal vulnerabilities for individuals with access to sensitive government assets, to assist them in maintaining their National Security Vetting clearance.
You will manage 1-2 members of staff, proactively monitoring the performance and delivery of the risk management team, to ensure that personal information and issues are handled sensitively, and that MI is recorded accurately.

You will also be responsible for making recommendations on sensitive and complex vetting decisions, conducting investigative interviews and supporting the Head of Personnel Security and Risk Management in ‘minded to refuse’ clearance interviews.

**Job description**:
**Stakeholder Management**
- You will be required to build professional and supportive relationships across the Department, and with CLU4 in order to facilitate the development of effective personnel security processes.

**Vetting**
- You will be responsible for maintaining the personnel security inbox and for processing staff National Security Vetting (NSV) clearances.
- You will be using the vetting database & Case Management System (CMS) to record decisions and update records.
- You will be responsible for identifying, arranging and leading lunch and learn sessions and other suitable forms of communication across the department for Vetting related matters.
- You will secretariat the Exceptional Vetting Panel (EVP) process

**Compliance**
- You will lead on the response to audits of the Department’s personnel security capability, and other such compliance checks, and will ensure that the Department is in a good state of readiness.

**Records Management**
- You will be expected to maintain appropriate metrics, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Department’s security strategy, and should be prepared to present and explain these metrics to various management committees, as well as in response to PQs and Freedom of Information (FoI) requests.

This is not an exclusive or exhaustive list, and the post-holders will be required to perform any additional duties reasonably expected of them within the scope of the grade and within the limits of their skill, competence and training.

This role is highly suited to someone who has experience in personnel security vetting and aftercare, with skills in making assessments and decisions based on sound risk management principles. The ability to speak compassionately but robustly would be an advantage.

**Hybrid working**

Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas.

Informal hybrid working arrangements will be available as agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role.

Most DBT employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in an office, on average. If

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