Corporate Security Senior Advisor - 30942

Environment Agency; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The Environment Agency is seeking a Corporate Security Senior Advisor to lead security initiatives and manage risks. This role involves collaboration with various stakeholders to enhance security culture and ensure effective risk management. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills in a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership skills to achieve outcomes and influence others.
• Experience in stakeholder management and communication.
• Understanding of organisational security influences.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and mitigate security risks.
• Provide leadership and guidance on security management.
• Collaborate with risk owners to ensure risks are assessed.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Cultural Change

Job description

Corporate Security Senior Advisor - 30942

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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 work 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. Your role will involve protecting the organisation from security threats that could impact our people, data, information, or physical assets.

In this role, you will:

1. Help the Corporate Security Manager oversee and mitigate security risks.
2. Provide leadership and guidance on assessing and managing security risks, including our retained security responsibilities.
3. Collaborate with risk owners across the organisation to ensure risks are understood, assessed, and mitigated.
4. Provide assurance to the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO), EA Board, and Executive Directors.
5. Partner with Defra group Security to ensure security strategies, policies, and processes are in place.
6. Lead initiatives to enhance our security culture through training, communications, and engagement.
7. Organise governance meetings to oversee security-related decisions.
8. Maintain networks with security professionals to stay informed about the latest developments.

The wider team manages diverse activities, and you will have opportunities to gain experience across key areas.

We are committed to an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working arrangements, including job-sharing. Please specify 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 and skills required

The external security landscape is complex and evolving. While you do not need to be a security professional, the following skills and experience are essential:

• An understanding of broader influences on organisational security to support continuous improvement.
• Proven leadership skills to achieve outcomes, foster partnerships, 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, communication, 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. More details are available in the candidate pack.

This is a hybrid role; you will be based at your nearest office in England with the option to work from home. Some national travel for meetings will be necessary.

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

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

To apply, please provide examples demonstrating each of the following competencies:

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

Note: The Environment Agency is not part of HM Civil Service; therefore, you will not be a Crown Servant if appointed. For those in local government or similar bodies, your existing service may be recognized for redundancy calculations. Contact your HR for clarification.

We value diversity and inclusion and welcome flexible working, including job sharing. Please specify your preferences in your application.

We have a Guaranteed Interview Policy for applicants with disabilities whose applications meet the minimum criteria.

The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, 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.