Security Governance Analyst (Ref: 2100)

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• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

About the job

Job summary

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Job description

Background

The role of MoJ Group Security is to protect people and assets from damage or harm, drive successful change through delivery of strategic objectives and ensure good governance principles and practices are applied to achieve successful daily operations. Its key objectives are to:

• Ensure government shared services address departmental security needs.
• Seek to raise standards in line with the Government Functional Standard for security.
• Provide structure and processes for effective decision making, accountability and influencing how objectives are achieved. Ensuring risk is monitored and addressed and performance optimised.
• Foster effective communication and collaboration and the sharing of best practice, ensuring consistency of approach and standards.
• Provide expertise on protective security and governance to improve the business of our customers, creating better and safer outcomes for both our customers and department.

The Governance team within MoJ Group Security ensures a proportionate and risk managed approach to security to enable government business to operate effectively, safely, and securely. It provides confidence to senior leaders and stakeholders of secure and successful delivery of security standards and ensures compliance with mandated cross-government assurance activities, as coordinated by the Cabinet Office.

Role Purpose

The Governance team within MoJ Group Security is looking to recruit an Executive Officer to provide specialist administrative support, advice, and guidance.

The post holder will provide specialist administrative support, advice, and guidance across the Governance Team to manage and investigate security incidents across MoJ. This includes ensuring incidents are logged and maintained in the Security Incident Reporting Tool and providing support to ensure any actions / lessons learned are addressed. The post holder will also support the delivery of the annual Departmental Security Health Check and resulting improvement plans to cover the Ministry and its ‘delivery partners’ (agencies, arm’s length bodies) and key suppliers who have access to MoJ sites or information to monitor the security improvement plan and report on security risks. 

The role is also about being a team player in the field of security within MoJ HQ by providing support to the wider team and the line manager. This includes supporting with unauthorised disclosure (leak) investigations as well as the line manager with the Information Risk and Security Board to seek assurances that the Senior Responsible Owners and Subject Matter Experts across HQ and the Executive Agencies are implementing departmental security and information policies and managing associated risks. 

The Governance team identifies, manages, and mitigate MoJ’s security risks and provides assurance against those risks to the Chief Security Officer that security (including data, cyber, physical and personnel) is robustly managed in MoJ for the benefit of business performance, legal compliance and driving improvements. The team are the owner of the Security Incident Reporting Tool and have worked to define the processes in the tool and interrogate the data to identify trends in incident reporting to help up-skill the department so that security and risk management become second nature and is embedded into the culture of MoJ. We need to influence the department to have visibility, insight, and control into how MoJ delivers security activities, and enable a flow of security information and decisions for the benefit of the end user. 

Main Activities/Responsibilities

• Supporting the delivery of the Departmental Security Health Check by assisting with the collation of data from across the department on a regular cycle, maintaining the security improvement plan and reporting on compliance against the Government Security Standards.
• Provide administrative support for the MoJ Information Security Risk Board (ISRB) by drafting agendas, creating, and collating papers, and managing the actions log.
• Ensure the incident records are updated and maintained on the incident reporting tool and providing support to ensure any actions or lessons learned are identified and acted upon.
• Provide administrative support to ensure efficient running of the team, helping to maintain effective security governance for the benefit of the Chief Security Officer. This will include the maintenance of the Business Continuity programme and other overarching pieces of work.
• Collaborate effectively with other teams throughout the Ministry of Justice, Executive Agencies and ALBs, building relationships which aim to embed the reputation and performance of the security teams across the wider Ministry of Justice.
• Assist in maintaining a comprehensive and up-to-date electronic filing system that supports the delivery of services and are effective in storing and retrieving data, ensuring access and structure are appropriately managed.
• Provide support to the line manager on a variety of ad hoc tasks, including responding (sometimes at short notice) to emerging security matters and administration.
• Support the wider team as part of unauthorised disclosure (leak) investigations.

Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours

Essential

• A high level of competence with MS Office 365 products, including MS Word and MS Excel.
• Experience of and a high-level of competence in, administrative tasks gained through working in an office-based or other relevant environment.
• Experience of dealing with people and providing excellent customer service.
• A commitment to confidentiality and discretion when handling sensitive personal or organisational data.
• A proven ability to deliver an “at volume” service consistently and at pace, whilst adhering to service and policy standards.

Desirable

• An understanding of the principles of data protection.
• Qualifications and/or experience with Microsoft Power Automate.

Application Process

The application will assess you on behaviours. Behaviours are the actions and activities that people do which result in effective performance in a job. The Civil Service has defined a set of behaviours that, when demonstrated, are associated with job success. Civil Service Behaviours are specific to the grade level of the job role. The examples of the behaviours are designed to give an overview of what is expected of individuals at each level. There is no expectation that all individuals will need to demonstrate every part of each example to be successful. 

To apply for this position please complete the online application form, ensuring you submit the following two application documents:

An up-to-date copy of your CV which details your experience and achievements.

A 250-word suitability statement against each of the following Success Profile Behaviours (Level 2): 

• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together
• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service

Dependent on volumes of applications received the sift stage may be based on the lead behaviour, which is Making Effective Decisions. 

Strengths will also be assessed at interview, but these are not shared in advance. Please also note that interviews will be conducted via video conference. 

Further information on Success Profiles and the required standards for this post (Level 2) can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles 

A Merit List of applicants meeting the required criteria may be kept for up to 12 months.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together
• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £28,312, Ministry of Justice contributes £8,201 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com
• Telephone : 0845 241 5359

Recruitment team

• Email : Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. I you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

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