Head of Cyber Security Advisory and Assurance Services

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MOD Main Building, Whitehall, London or MOD Corsham.

About the job

Job summary

The Head of Cyber Security Advisory & Assurance (CYSAAS) leads a team that operates across the Ministry of Defence to provide strategic cyber security consultancy and assurance services for high-risk programmes and capabilities. 

You will also lead MOD’s adoption of Secure by Design and will liaise with teams across MOD and with industry partners to ensure that appropriate security controls are implemented in accordance with threat and risk profile. 

You will be a key member of the Cyber Defence & Risk leadership team, working together to move the MOD’s cyber resilience strategy forward.

Strategic Command is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to improve the way the Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, all posts within Strategic Command Headquarters and in time the wider organisation, are/will be subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the Command’s transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions.

Job description

Key Responsibilities

The current responsibilities of the role include:

• Leading and managing a team of 50 Full Time Equivalent (Civilian Crown Servants and Military staff) to deliver cyber security consultancy and assurance services into Ministry Of Defence’s most critical programmes.
• Lead the pan-defence cyber security assurance service through which high risk existing and new defence equipment capabilities will be scrutinised against Defence’s baseline Cyber Security standards using National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
• Engage with programme stakeholders and Senior Responsible Owners to resolve complex cyber security challenges, discuss assurance and consultancy findings and to drive implementation of actions to improve cyber security.
• Drive adoption of Secure by Design across Defence including engagement with industry.
• Establish, lead and run an in-house Defence wide information security consultancy service including front door process, resource management and metrics production.
• Work collaboratively with the Security Architecture team to ensure equipment and IT programmes are adopting the latest security design patterns and are driving standardisation.
• Lead review and sign off Risk Balance Cases where Defence levels risks are out of appetite including up to Ministerial level.
• Lead provision of a technical security evaluation and testing service for Defence including operation of a technical testing lab.

Person specification

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate their experience and skills against the following essential criteria:

• Deep technical Board level experience in cyber security on large complex programmes across all cyber security domains.
• Demonstratable experience of being able to set a clear vision or direction that drives forward cyber security strategy.
• Excellent communication skills with credibility of being able to instil confidence and engage effectively across a broad spectrum of stakeholders, especially at Board and senior executive level, which demonstrates your ability to build trust quickly.
• A proven confident leader with demonstratable evidence of how you have motivated, empowered and got consistently good results from a diverse, multi-disciplinary team, often under pressure.
• Extensive experience of working across multiple teams, including outside of your immediate team, with evidence and examples of being able to deal with complexity, identifying practical options and actions that meet the strategic need.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £76,000, Ministry of Defence contributes £22,017 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : SCS Recruitment Team
• Email : People-CivHR-SCSCandidateSupport@mod.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : People-CivHR-SCSCandidateSupport@mod.gov.uk

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