Corporate Security Senior Advisor - 30942

Environment Agency; Chelmsford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agency in the UK is seeking a Corporate Security Senior Advisor to enhance its security culture and manage risks effectively. The role involves collaboration with various stakeholders, providing leadership, and ensuring the organization is well-protected from security threats. This hybrid position offers flexibility and requires strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership skills to achieve outcomes and inspire others.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and managing multiple priorities.
• Ability to build effective partnerships with colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and mitigate security risks alongside the Corporate Security Manager.
• Provide leadership and direction on security risk assessment.
• Lead efforts to improve the security culture through training and engagement.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Cultural Change

Risk Assessment

Communication

Job description

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Job Description

Are you an inspirational and collaborative leader? Are you keen to use your leadership skills to protect the organisation and our staff?

As Corporate Security Senior Advisor, you’ll be working in a small team responsible for providing assurance that we’re addressing our security risks and improving our security culture. You will be a role model for security, promoting a positive culture and cultivating good behaviours. You'll contribute to protecting the organisation from security threats that could affect our people, data, information, or physical assets.

In this role you will:

• Help the Corporate Security Manager to oversee and mitigate security risks.
• Provide leadership and direction on how we assess and manage security risks, including our retained security responsibilities.
• Work with risk owners across the organisation to ensure risks are understood, assessed, and adequately mitigated.
• Provide assurance to the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for security, EA Board, and Executive Directors.
• Partner with Defra group Security to ensure we have security strategies, policies, and processes in place.
• Lead efforts to improve our security culture through training, communications, and engagement.
• Run governance meetings to oversee security decisions.
• Maintain networks with security professionals to stay updated with the latest security context.

The wider team manages a diverse range of work. You will be involved in various activities, providing opportunities to gain broad experience.

We are committed to an inclusive workforce reflecting the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns, including job-share. Please indicate your preferred working arrangements in your application.

The team

You will be part of a small, welcoming team within the Corporate Management, Assurance, and Security team, focused on protecting and empowering the organisation. You will have access to professional security advice from Defra group Security and collaborate with subject matter experts in the Environment Agency.

Experience/skills Required

The external security landscape is complex and evolving. While you do not need to be a security professional, you should have:

• An appreciation of broader influences on organisational security to facilitate continuous improvement.
• Proven leadership skills to achieve outcomes, promote partnership, influence, and inspire others.
• Ability to build effective partnerships with Defra and Environment Agency colleagues to jointly manage risks.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, managing multiple priorities, and balancing demands.
• Experience in inspiring cultural change, stakeholder management, leading communications and engagement, and implementing business change solutions is advantageous.

Contact and additional information

All new hires are required to undertake training and participate in incident response duties as needed. Further details are in the candidate pack.

This is a hybrid role; you will be based in an office in England with the option to work from home, and some travel may be required.

There will be an informal session to learn more about the role on Wednesday 21st May 12:30-13:30. Contact Emma Young at [e-mail] to join or receive a transcript.

Interviews are scheduled from the week commencing 16th June 2025.

To apply, please provide examples addressing each of the competencies below:

1. Builds and Sustains Relationships: Demonstrate your ability to build effective relationships that lead to successful joint outcomes.
2. Leads People: Explain how you would ensure everyone understands their security responsibilities.
3. Delivers Results Through Others: Share an example of how you leverage others’ skills and expertise to achieve joint outcomes.

If applying from the Civil Service, note that the Environment Agency is not part of HM Civil Service and you would not have continuous service benefits. For local government or similar roles, you may be eligible for continuous service for redundancy calculations. Contact your HR if unsure.

We value diversity and inclusion and welcome flexible working arrangements, including job share. We guarantee an interview to applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria.

The Environment Agency uses government frameworks for external recruitment and does not engage directly via post, email, or phone. To become a support supplier, visit the Crown Commercial Service website.