Security Vetting Assistant

**Location**: Moor Row, GB
**Category**: Quality
**Job ID**: EST00033C

**Your Impact**:
We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

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**About the Opportunity**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a security vetting assistance to provide support to the Westlakes Security team working on the Jacobs Lot 2 PPP framework/projects as a member of the Security team.

The role is based in our Westlakes office (Whitehaven, Cumbria) and will be office-based minimum of 4 days per week.

**Key responsibilities**
- Preparing renewals - identifying staff/individuals who require renewals from the database, issuing forms and following up to ensure timely renewals.
- Performing progress monitoring, ensuring the relevant records are accurately updated.
- Checking progress and monitoring forms are returned to the required deadlines. Follow up calls to staff/individuals where required.
- Attending regular security team meetings.
- Assisting with GDPR compliance checks on the data held.
- Doing compliance checking, assisting the team to run regular checks to ensure that all staff/individuals working on the projects are correctly cleared.
- Drafting security notices and issuing them.
- Assisting the security team with other ad hoc security tasks e.g., organising training, requesting IT accounts.
- Liaising with the wider support team on PPP framework e,g. Resourcing, Jacobs in-house security team.
- Providing absence cover for other security team members.

**Ad Hoc Responsibilities**

Assistance maybe required in the following areas:

- Project security support (wider Jacobs business).
- Other administrative duties assigned by Management.

**Here’s what you’ll need**:

- Previous experience from a similar security vetting role would be beneficial, however on the job in-house training shall be provided.
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, proficient in Excel.
- Excellent attention to details and an ability to cope with changing deadlines, whilst remaining calm under pressure.
- Perform tasks with honesty and discretion. The role involves handling sensitive personal data and it is an essential requirement that this information is not divulged.
- Demonstrate reliability, flexibility, and adaptability.
- Display an engaging, enthusiastic, and confident manner with an interest in supporting the work we do.
- A team player, who is keen to learn and develop their skills.

**Our Culture**

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centered on inclusion and diversity.