Corporate Security Senior Advisor - 30942

Environment Agency; Fordingbridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The Environment Agency is seeking a Corporate Security Senior Advisor to lead security risk management and foster a positive security culture. This role involves collaboration with senior personnel and the Defra group to enhance security strategies and ensure organizational resilience. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills and experience in stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership skills to achieve outcomes and inspire others.
• Ability to build effective partnerships and manage multiple priorities.
• Experience in stakeholder management and implementing business change.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and mitigate security risks alongside the Corporate Security Manager.
• Lead actions to improve security culture through training and engagement.
• Work with risk owners to ensure risks are understood and mitigated.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Influence

Culture Change

Job description

Corporate Security Senior Advisor - 30942

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:

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

The wider team manages a diverse range of work. There is an expectation that you will become involved in work the whole team does, which will give you the opportunity to gain a wide range of experience of key activities.

We are committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job-share. Please include any information about your preferred working arrangements on 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 to function effectively and be resilient. You will access the advice of professional security teams in Defra group Security and work with subject matter experts in the Environment Agency.

Experience/skills required:

1. Appreciation of wider influences on the security of the organisation to continuously improve in response to changing demands
2. Proven leadership skills to achieve outcomes, promote partnership, influence, and inspire others
3. Ability to build effective partnerships with Defra and Environment Agency colleagues to jointly manage risks
4. Ability to work with senior personnel, manage multiple priorities, and handle competing demands
5. Experience of inspiring culture change, stakeholder management, leading communications and engagement, and implementing business change solutions is beneficial

Additional information about the role, application process, and work arrangements is provided in the full job posting. There will be an informal session on Wednesday, 21st May, and interviews are scheduled for the week commencing 16th June 2025.