Portsmouth, South East England, PO2 8BY
Job Summary
Addressing cyber risk is a top priority for the MOD and in response to the growing global threat, the Royal Navy (RN) is implementing a major cybersecurity transformation programme. This is a great opportunity for strong cyber professionals, with excellent analysis and communication skills, to be part of an exciting and challenging change programme.
As Cyber Security Risk Manager, you’ll join the new Office of the Chief Information Security Officer and will work with stakeholders across the Command, to ensure cyber security risk management is embedded within existing risk management activities. You’ll analyse cyber risks and assurance reports to create insight and inform cyber risk governance and risk response plans, providing advice and guidance to improve cyber risk decisions and processes.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job Description
Leading the delivery of cyber risk management in the RN and continued integration of cyber security into existing risk management activities, you’ll provide advice and guidance to improve cyber risk decisions and use assurance to drive continuous improvement.
Through evidenced based decisions, informed by current threats and include mitigations, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders across RN and MOD, to understand the parts of the RN delivering cyber security risk management, in complex and challenging environments.
This role is key to management and oversight of RN cyber risks and enabling other key stakeholders to reduce and understand RN’s overarching cyber risk. You’ll need to build an understanding of cyber risks across the command, to identify trends and provide updates to the Navy Executive Committee.
Responsibilities
- Continued integration of cyber security into Navy Command risk management, including people, processes and technology.
- Provide tailored advice to a range of stakeholders on how to conduct cyber security risk management, consistent with RN and MOD policy, leveraging threat intelligence and best practice to mitigate risks.
- Provide expert security advice that highlights cyber security related risks, so risk or service owners can make well-informed and auditable decisions.
- Work with assurance teams to understand how risk management is conducted and use findings to drive continuous improvement.
- Lead on reporting any Strategic Navy Command cyber risk status and trends.
- Understand any risks outside of the Chief Information Security Officer's CISO risk appetite.
- Engage with all key stakeholders involved in cyber risk management, building the community of interest and promoting cyber risk knowledge sharing; work with Cyber Risk Management (CRM) partners, as part of the Cyber Security Operations Capability (CSOC), in the interest of the broader aims of CRM.
Leading the delivery of cyber risk management in the RN and continued integration of cyber security into existing risk management activities, you’ll provide advice and guidance to improve cyber risk decisions and use assurance to drive continuous improvement.
Through evidenced based decisions, informed by current threats and include mitigations, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders across RN and MOD, to understand the parts of the RN delivering cyber security risk management, in complex and challenging environments.
This role is key to management and oversight of RN cyber risks and enabling other key stakeholders to reduce and understand RN’s overarching cyber risk. You’ll need to build an understanding of cyber risks across the command, to identify trends and provide updates to the Navy Executive Committee.
Responsibilities
- Continued integration of cyber security into Navy Command risk management, including people, processes and technology.
- Provide tailored advice to a range of stakeholders on how to conduct cyber security risk management, consistent with RN and MOD policy, leveraging threat intelligence and best practice to mitigate risks.
- Provide expert security advice that highlights cyber security related risks, so risk or service owners can make well-informed and auditable decisions.
- Work with assurance teams to understand how risk management is conducted and use findings to drive continuous improvement.
- Lead on reporting any Strategic Navy Command cyber risk status and trends.
- Understand any risks outside of the Chief Information Security Officer's CISO risk appetite.
- Engage with all key stakeholders involved in cyber risk management, building the community of interest and promoting cyber risk knowledge sharing; work with Cyber Risk Management (CRM) partners, as part of the Cyber Security Operations Capability (CSOC), in the interest of the broader aims of CRM.
Person specification
Please ensure that your CV and application meet the essential criteria below:
We would expect to see some previous experience in either information security governance and management, risk assessment and information risk management, technical security architecture or ICT assurance; with an understanding of complex technical security risks and the ability to analyse risk information.
This role requires collaboration with stakeholders across RN and MOD, so you’ll need excellent communication and influencing skills, with highly effective networking capability. You’ll need the ability to communicate to a variety of audiences, synthesising information to portray key messages and facilitate effective decision making.
Additional Information
We are committed to encouraging and enabling our staff to develop in and above their role and we will support you in undertaking further learning and development opportunities, within your designated field and beyond. Wherever possible, we will provide upskill learning options and further training to support your continuous professional development.
This post is eligible for a Digital Skills Allowance of up to £11,400 per annum. Eligibility for this allowance will be assessed at interview against 4 core technical skills only and reviewed annually in line with MOD policy.
This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station, which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this). If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post. The expectation would be at least 40% attendance in office.
Dependent on the business need, there may be a requirement to travel to meetings within the UK (or potentially occasional overseas visits).
Please note this position is open to sole UK Nationals only.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Information risk assessment and risk management
- Applied security capability
- Protective security
- Threat understanding
Alongside your salary of £44,590, Ministry of Defence contributes £12,917 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Our Benefits Include:
- Learning and development tailored to your role with a dedicated minimum of 5 days per year.
- 25 days paid annual leave rising (by 1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of five years’ service.
- Ability to roll up to 10 days annual leave per year.
- In addition to eight public holidays per year, you will also receive leave for HM The King’s birthday.
- A Civil Service pension.
- Parental and Adoption Leave.
- Discounts on a range of services within and external to the civil service – Defence Discount Service, Civil Service societies for Sports and Leisure, Healthcare, Insurance, Motoring, Company discounts with Virgin, Vodafone, and Microsoft Office.
- In year rewards and ‘thank you’ schemes such as vouchers and gift cards.
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
- Find out more here - Discovermybenefits.
Equality and Diversity
Our people are at the heart of everything we do at Defence Digital. It’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of both our audience and the wider society in the UK, so we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities. We also recognise the importance of a good work life balance, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including part-time and job shares for all our roles. Please just let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process if this is something you want to explore.
Defence Digital operates an organisation model in which every individual belongs to a Government Profession. The successful applicant will be posted into one of the defined Government Professions on Standard Terms of Reference for the grade. Defence Digital reserves the right to move individuals between roles, within their allocated profession, to meet the needs of the business and in support of agile resourcing. Whilst this is a Defence Digital post, the role will be working with the Royal Navy, based at the advertised location.
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.
The post does not offer relocation expenses.
External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
To apply please complete the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard, ensuring it highlights your relevance to the essential criteria listed in the person specification.
It is essential that all applicants provide a personal statement (max. 1250 words), assessed against your responses to the questions listed below.
Each One Will Be Scored 1-7 And Make Up Part Of Your Overall Score To Assess Your Suitability To Be Invited To Interview:
- Describe your experience of managing cyber security risk aspects within an organisation.
- Tell us about your ability to create, build and maintain strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Describe your most impactful experiences of using analysis in the workplace, to make effective security decisions.
When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.
Interviews
We’ll assess you against these behaviours, technical skills & experience during the interview process:
Behaviours
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating & Influencing
Technical Skills
- Information risk assessment and risk management
- Applied security capability
- Protective security
- Threat understanding
The Government Security Profession Career Framework and the Cyber Security Advisory - Risk Manager Principal role used in this vacancy can be found at: Government Security Profession career framework.
Presentation
You will be asked to prepare and deliver a 5-minute (max) presentation on a role-related subject. Further details will be sent prior to interview.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact:
[email protected] .
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
Open to UK nationals only.
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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Contact point for applicants
Job Contact :
Recruitment team
Further information
Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint by writing to DBS at the following address: Defence Business Services, Scanning Hub, Room 6124, Tomlinson House, Norcross Lane, Blackpool, FY5 3WP. If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address: , Civil Service commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ Or by email:
[email protected]