Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Ipswich, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Nottingham. (Croydon and Stratford will only be available to existing employees of the Insolvency Service).

Job Summary

Change and Technology Services (CTS) is responsible for the delivery of all the agency's information and communications technology services. We aim to provide best in class digital technology services across our IT landscape. By working together with our partners, customers, our people and the wider community, we are focused on improving the quality of delivery across our services and providing effective support for our applications and systems. We put our customers at the heart of what we do, helping to identify and deliver the best services for their needs.

The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.

Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability & Health, FACES Network Group, Grass Roots, LGBT+, Mind Matters, No Limits, Part Time Workers, The Shed, and Women’s Network Group.

We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.

The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career!

Job Description

The Cyber Security and Information Governance Team in CTS.

Our Cyber Security and Information Governance Team provide a dedicated security service for our digital and technology function.

The Cyber Security and Information Governance Team ensure that the Insolvency Service is able to fully support CTS colleagues, the delivery model, and provide security advice and support across the agency.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate can expect to be involved in the following:

• Supporting the Head of Cyber Security/CISO by overseeing the security landscape and obligations for the Agency, advise the SIRO on risks and mitigating actions.
• Collaborating with Business Relationship Management to inform, educate and advise business stakeholders.
• Acting as an escalation point for participants within SIAM Ecosystem.
• Participating in Business Change and SIAM Ecosystem forums as appropriate to ensure that proposals, projects and changes follow and are directed in compliance with the agreed Strategic Roadmap. Assure adherence to principles, standards, policies and contractual obligations during the development and delivery of approved change activity.
• Responsible for the secure operation and continuous improvement of the service, ensuring processes are owned and maturing.
• Helping to develop, review and assure Business Cases to obtain and support investment. Collaborating with Service Governance and Service Innovation, evaluate proposals against the Strategic and current Service Portfolios to ensure proposals do not invalidate security controls and principles by continuing to follow the agreed security standards.
• Managing dependencies of varying complexity.
• Helping to remove blockers and manage risks, budgets and people.
• Balancing objectives and resources as priorities change.
• Effectively managing and communicating between complex stakeholder groups.
• Ensuring the necessary business processes are followed and participate in the governance of the service.
• Supporting the Head of Cyber Security/CISO as required and other tasks commensurate with the post.
  
  

The successful applicant will be expected to work a hybrid working pattern between the office and home. Travel expenses to Birmingham for a successful candidate who opts to base themselves out of another Insolvency Service location will be covered.

The Cyber Security and Information Governance Team in CTS.

Our Cyber Security and Information Governance Team provide a dedicated security service for our digital and technology function.

The Cyber Security and Information Governance Team ensure that the Insolvency Service is able to fully support CTS colleagues, the delivery model, and provide security advice and support across the agency.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate can expect to be involved in the following:

• Supporting the Head of Cyber Security/CISO by overseeing the security landscape and obligations for the Agency, advise the SIRO on risks and mitigating actions.
• Collaborating with Business Relationship Management to inform, educate and advise business stakeholders.
• Acting as an escalation point for participants within SIAM Ecosystem.
• Participating in Business Change and SIAM Ecosystem forums as appropriate to ensure that proposals, projects and changes follow and are directed in compliance with the agreed Strategic Roadmap. Assure adherence to principles, standards, policies and contractual obligations during the development and delivery of approved change activity.
• Responsible for the secure operation and continuous improvement of the service, ensuring processes are owned and maturing.
• Helping to develop, review and assure Business Cases to obtain and support investment. Collaborating with Service Governance and Service Innovation, evaluate proposals against the Strategic and current Service Portfolios to ensure proposals do not invalidate security controls and principles by continuing to follow the agreed security standards.
• Managing dependencies of varying complexity.
• Helping to remove blockers and manage risks, budgets and people.
• Balancing objectives and resources as priorities change.
• Effectively managing and communicating between complex stakeholder groups.
• Ensuring the necessary business processes are followed and participate in the governance of the service.
• Supporting the Head of Cyber Security/CISO as required and other tasks commensurate with the post.
  
  

The successful applicant will be expected to work a hybrid working pattern between the office and home. Travel expenses to Birmingham for a successful candidate who opts to base themselves out of another Insolvency Service location will be covered.

Person specification

Person Specification:

• Significant experience of running security architecture and information assurance for a complex IT programme involving dependency management and multi-supplier delivery
• Extensive experience of working in a multi-supplier environment, both designing aspects of solutions and assuring the work of others to ensure coherent designs that support an end to end service
• Experience of building capability for a specialist in-house security function and managing the commercial need to buy expertise, niche services etc. from the market
• Good understanding of the security implications of delivering to cloud environments and an understanding of the associated economics.
• Proven ability to prepare and obtain approval for business cases for enterprise level investment in security
• Experience of designing logical and physical components of technology security architecture that enable efficient business operations.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex security concepts to senior leaders and stakeholders
• Good consulting and relationship management skills proven effective with stakeholders at technical and executive levels.
• Experience of risk management and mitigation strategies.
• The successful candidate will need to pass the National Security Vetting at level Security Check.
  
  

This vacancy is advertised across 11 locations; however, Stratford and Croydon are only available to current Insolvency Service Staff. The advertised salary includes London weighting, which is only applicable to internal candidates.

Behaviours

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

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
  
  

Alongside your salary of £54,094, Insolvency Service contributes £15,671 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We Want You To Have a Good Work-life Balance And Want To Support You In All That You Do, So We Offer a Great Benefits Package Including:

• flexible working arrangements and flexi-time
• full time new entrants to the Civil Service and those Civil Servants on modernised terms and conditions will be entitled to 25 days leave increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• in addition to this you are entitled to 8 public/bank holidays plus an additional day of privilege leave
• competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
• 5 days paid leave for learning and development
• 5 days paid for volunteering
• a Cycle to work scheme
• staff have access to an employee assistance programme, Workplace Wellness, for confidential, independent support and advice during difficult times in either their professional or personal life
  
  

Your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package where the employer makes a significant contribution to the cost of your pension. Your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken. This means, if you pay tax, your take-home pay will not be reduced by the full amount of your contribution; and your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire. For more information, visit www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV, and a 750-word personal statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Your personal statement should be no more than 750 words and should explain how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria and our values within the person specification.

Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the Personal Statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to interview.

We will test your experience as part of the application process, and if successful, you will be invited to a short interview where we will test your behaviours, experience and strengths. You will also be asked to prepare a 10-minute presentation for your interview, and will be given at least 7 calendar days notice of the subject of your presentation. Full details of the selection process will be made available to shortlisted candidates once the sift has been completed.

Expected timeline (subject to change)

Sift – w/c 19 May 2025

Interview – w/c 26 May 2025

Location - MS Teams

Your interview will either be conducted face to face or by video. You will be notified of this if you are selected for interview. Candidates are asked to note the above timetable, exercising flexibility through the recruitment and selection process.

Use of AI

Candidates must ensure that their applications, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

Visa Applicants

To sponsor a candidate under the Skilled Worker visa, a sponsorship licence is required. The Insolvency Service does not currently hold this licence and therefore, cannot legally sponsor Skilled Worker visa applicants.

Further Information

A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.

Any move to Insolvency Service 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; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service or Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.

However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing [email protected] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email [email protected]

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website.

Transforming Workplaces

The Insolvency Service is currently delivering an exciting five-year transformation project that started in April 2022 which will define our future direction supporting a gradual migration to a Regional Centre model combined with smarter ways of working. As part of this, transforming our estate will align us with the government modernisation programmes making The Insolvency Service a great place to work.

We are letting you know about our future plans because if you are joining the Insolvency Service and are recruited into an office over the next five years that is not one of the Regional Centres, you will be expected to move to one of the Regional Centres in the future. This move would not attract financial assistance.

The 11 Regional Centres are : Birmingham, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Exeter, Ipswich, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Stratford.

Hybrid Working

Insolvency Service operates a hybrid working policy subject to business need, giving people the flexibility to choose when and where they work and collaborate with others.

Individuals are expected to work from one of the office locations stated in the advert to connect with their colleagues, as required by their role and business team needs. There is flexibility to split the working week, spending a minimum of 60% in the workplace, which includes the office, site visits, court etc.

Reasonable Adjustment

If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section in the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

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, Strengths and Experience.

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

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job Contact :

• Name : Adrian Boar
• Email : [email protected]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]
  
  

Further information

A candidate can raise a complaint to the Insolvency Service if they think that:

They have been discriminated against under the Equality Act 2010.

There have been procedural irregularities at any stage of the recruitment process.

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance: [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission.