Security Assurance Lead

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

- 289887**Salary**:

- £38,046 - £41,053**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- CO - Government Security Group - The Government Security Function (GSF) oversees the delivery of protective security across Government. Our Mission is to enable Government to protect citizens and provide vital public services by understanding and managing security risks. We set the strat**Type of role**:

- Analytical
- Internal Audit
- Security**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Glasgow, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- This is an exciting opportunity to become a Senior Security Liaison Officer within the Security Assurance Team which assesses compliance to provide assurance and analysis to Accounting Officers and Security Boards. The team is responsible for delivering the Departmental Security Health Check (DSHC), an annual survey to support Accounting Officers in oversight of their organisations’ security and provide an authoritative pan-government baseline for Cabinet Office ministers, Government Security Board and the Government Security Steering Group. The findings are used to provide reporting to Civil Service leaders and insights that support decision making at the heart of government and work with organisations to drive improved compliance across Government.**Job description**:
As a SEO Lead Security Assurance Officer, you will play an integral part in the delivery of the DSHC product, from development to delivery of personalised reports. You will work across both the areas of self assessment and the assurance of compliance to the Security Standards to drive improvements in accuracy and consistency of data for report writing and analysis. You will lead work to develop security improvement plans and build strong relationships with key stakeholders to monitor progress by working closely with security teams across Government. You will look for ways to promote best practice and signpost specialist support services and products working alongside the Government Security Centres. You will work closely with thematic leads in Government Security Group to provide feedback and lead work to ensure that processes and products meet stakeholder needs. You will develop relationships with organisations with a cross-cutting role on risk management and assurance for government security to draw on their information and insights. To build awareness across a wider portfolio of government security activity you will represent the Assurance Team at meetings and in forums.

The post holder will be responsible for:

- Management - you will line manage HEO team members and be responsible for managing workloads.
- Leadership - you will lead areas of work, represent the team and present findings and future plans to stakeholders. You will work closely with others in the team and across Government Security Group to support their work and empower colleagues to be innovative and improve.
- Engagement - you will build our relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including government departments, national technical authorities, Government Security Centre’s and arm’s-length bodies. You will proactively seek engagement opportunities and you will support a cross-government Assurance User Group as a forum to ensure that our services meet the requirements of government organisations and to promote shared good practice.
- Delivery - you will support the delivery of an improved annual Departmental Security Health Check (DSHC) and report to feedback findings to Accounting Officers across government, as well as the Government Chief Security Officer and Government Security Board.
- Transformation and Innovation - you will proactively seek opportunities to transform and innovate the Health Check and ways of working. You will be encouraged to use personal experience or those of others to formulate ideas and solutions to improve products and service from the team. You will need to collaborate across organisational boundaries, understand the impact of change on organisations.

**Person specification**:
Essential skills and experience:

- Self-motivating and team player.
- Interest and enthusiasm in security.
- Ability to work with initiative, accurately and calmly in a fast-paced environment.
- Enjoy problem solving and creative innovation to complex issues.
- Interpersonal skills to build/maintain relationships with internal and external partners.

Desirable skills and experience:

- Experience of security compliance, assurance or policy will be beneficial.
- Previous line management experience would be useful.
- Report writing.
- Project management experience.

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

- Delivering at Pace
- Changing and Improving
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