Places for Growth Security Advisor

6 months ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Department for Business and Trade Full time

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

- 353196**Salary**:

- £53,560 - £63,481- National: £53,560 - £60,118 London: £57,026 - £63,481- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Fixed term
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- 9 months**Business area**:

- CS: Chief Finance Officer’s Directorate**Type of role**:

- Security**Working pattern**:

- Annualised hours, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London or SalfordAbout the job

**Job summary**:
You will be part of the DBT Security Team and be responsible for ensuring that the department complies with the required Government Security Standards. You will support the cross-government Places for Growth initiative which enables us to connect with and reflect the communities we serve and contribute to the government’s priority levelling up initiative across the UK.

You will lead on physical security, security education and awareness, information security and incident management in the hubs. You will manage the transition, ensuring that there are appropriate security polices and processes within the new Hubs. You will identify key security risks and provide appropriate advice and mitigations. You will also be a security key holder for major programmes and projects and be required to review business cases and provide advice/guidance on security for new projects.

As part of the Security Senior Management Team in DBT Security you will help DBT act as an intelligent customer to access services from the Government Property Agency and other government partners. You will collaborate and manage relationships with other government departments and agencies also co-locating in the regional offices.

**Job description**:

- Leading on security for your area of responsibility and supporting governments places for growth agenda
- Implementing good security culture and behaviour and transforming change in DBT’s hubs
- Working with key stakeholders across government to protect the department and its people from security threats
- Continually review delivery processes to ensure they are meeting business needs
- Delivering security improvements to ensure compliance with government functional standards
- Providing security advice and guidance to DBT projects and staff at all levels
- Supporting the Senior Security Adviser and the Security Team as required

**Person specification**:
**Essential criteria**

Experience in and knowledge of Security practice and processes
- Understanding of the security risks and issues facing an international-facing government department
- The ability to communicate effectively at all levels including briefing senior staff and at board level.
- The ability to prioritise between multiple work streams to ensure that deadlines are met.
- Being a self-starter, working as part of a diverse team in a fast-paced environment.
- This is a reserved post open to UK Nationals only

**Desirable criteria**
- A certain level of technical security understanding would be useful.
- Experience of working within or with government security.
- Experienced in delivering/feeding into security projects.
- Excellent ambassador for the Government Security Function

**Personal attributes & skills**
- Excellent team player, also able to act on own initiative and make choices, influencing and coaching others with strong communication skills, in both oral and written forms._
- Decision maker - demonstrating resilience where decisions are challenged.
- Strong leadership skills
- Able to work independently.
- Being innovative in finding solutions and learning lessons.

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

- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Changing and Improving

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £53,560, Department for Business and Trade contributes £14,461 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will, however, consider in-person interviews by exception.
- A **CV** setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Provide employment history that relates to the Essential criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are

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