Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager

UK Home Office; Croydon; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the UK Home Office as a Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager in Croydon. In this pivotal role, you will lead the planning and implementation of risk management processes and provide expert guidance in navigating cybersecurity threats. You will have the chance to make impactful recommendations and collaborate with stakeholders, promoting a robust security environment.

Benefits

Civil Service pension

Season ticket loans

Cycle to work scheme

Employee discounts

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Maternity and adoption leave

Volunteering leave

Support for studying qualifications

Qualifications

• Demonstrable passion for managing security risk.
• Experience in performing risk assessments and developing treatment plans.
• Ability to maintain integrity of records for audits.

Responsibilities

• Plans and implements risk management processes across the organization.
• Communicates risk assessment outcomes to stakeholders.
• Develops, reviews, and assures risk management policies.

Skills

Risk assessment

Cybersecurity

Policy development

Stakeholder communication

Education

Security Clearance

Job description

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Lead Technical Recruiter (Cyber Security, Data & IT Operations) @ UK Home Office | HR, Recruiting, Hiring

Location: Croydon

Salary: £48,720 Candidates may be eligible for an additional allowance, pending a Capability and Skills assessment, with a value of up to £12,680

The Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager plans and implements organisation-wide processes and procedures for the management of risk. They monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of the risk management processes across the organisation and make recommendations for continuous improvement.

As a Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager, your main day-to-day responsibilities will be:

• Working within established security and risk management governance structures, usually under supervision to support, review and undertake straightforward risk management activities such as: undertaking cyber security related risk assessments; basic threat assessments and other risk management activities.
• Communicating the risk assessment outcomes to stakeholders in ways that support effective security, risk management and decision-making.
• Developing risk management-related policy and assuring the ongoing appropriateness of policy in accordance with regulation and wider organisational and government policies.
• Providing advice to address straight-forward cyber security risks by applying a variety of security capabilities, which may include using published guidance or standards, and validating the effectiveness of risk mitigation measures.
• Helping risk or service owners to make decisions that are well informed by providing clear security team

What you'll bring:

Please note that this role requires Security Clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years.

As a Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager, you’ll have a demonstrable passion for Managing Security risk with the following skills or experience in:

• Reviewing and performing risk assessments, developing risk treatment plans and communicating those risks to others.
• Identifying typical risk indicators and explaining prevention measures.
• Adopting a structured approach to executing and documenting audits, following agreed standards.
• Maintaining integrity of records to support and satisfy audit trails.

Please note for this role you will require a SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 5 years.

We encourage applications from people from the widest possible diversity of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from women, people with disabilities and LGBT+ as they are currently under-represented in the Home Office at this grade level. Appointments will be made on merit on the basis of fair and open competition.

Some of the benefits our employees love

• A Civil Service pension with employer contribution rates of between 26.6% and 30.3%, depending upon salary.
• season ticket loans and rental deposit loans
• cycle to work and payroll giving
• employee discounts - including a huge number of retailers (via the Edenred platform), Microsoft Home Use programme and gym membership
• a variety of staff recognition schemes including thank you vouchers
• health and wellbeing initiatives including monthly mindfulness sessions
• staff support networks
• maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid
• maternity and adoption support leave (paternity leave) of 2 weeks full pay
• up to 5 days paid leave for volunteering
• study leave and support for studying for a qualification or other accredited development relevant to your role

For full job description and salary please follow the "Apply" link.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Government Administration

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