Cyber Security: Education and Awareness Lead -

Details

Reference number

331617

Salary

£53,000

London based The total package for this role at Grade 7 is £58,000 per annum (non-negotiable). This figure includes a non-pensionable, non-consolidated Location Allowance of £5,000. Milton Keynes based The total package for this role at Grade 7 is £54,750 per annum (non-negotiable). This figure includes a non-pensionable, non-consolidated Location Allowance of £1,750. East Kilbride based The total package for this role at Grade 7 is £53,000 per annum (non-negotiable). Additional allowances may be payable to the successful candidate. Please see the attached Candidate Pack for Further details.

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Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

Grade 7

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Other

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Location

East Kilbride, London, Milton Keynes

About the job

Job summary

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office pursues our national interests and projects the UKs role in the world.

We promote the interests of British citizens, safeguard the UK’s security, defend our values, reduce poverty and tackle global challenges with our international partners.

Main Purpose of Job

The successful candidate will lead a core team in Cyber Services; one of three functions that report to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This is a key area with increasing scope and will be expanding to meet demand.

Cyber Services has three main areas of responsibility:

Cyber Security Policy
Cyber Security Education and Awareness
Cyber Insider Threat

This is an opportunity to influence and mature all three areas and would suit someone with a wide-ranging interest within the cyber security profession. The role requires strategic vision and a strong ability to communicate with stakeholders and drive forward positive change. The mission of this team is to increase the cyber security of the FCDO by determining what users can and cannot do; by educating staff on necessary behaviours and awareness of threats; and by detecting when behaviour falls short.

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

The successful candidate will:

Assess, benchmark and document the current-state of cyber security education and awareness training.

Develop and validate a collaborative vision for a desired-state of a cyber security education and awareness life-cycle aligned to the strategic security objectives of the organisation.

Create and implement a roadmap for development, utilising existing resources and directing specialist project assistance.

Provide reporting and analysis to support risk and policy decision-making, including significant stakeholder engagement and consultation.

Contribute specialist knowledge to relevant work streams for a programme of development to improve the security maturity and capability of the organisation.

Lead and advocate for Cyber Security Education and Awareness and Cyber Services, internally and externally, including deputising for the Head of Cyber Services when required.

Manage and develop two staff members and recruit one additional staff member, to deliver both existing current-state and future desired-state activities.

There may be an option to travel, as the team has responsibilities for worldwide cyber security training and local engagement with the FCDOs overseas network. However, travel is not a requirement of the role.

As part of the role, you will be expected to undertake cyber and risk management training to further your skills and development in line with the Government Security Profession career framework.

Person specification

You must be a British Citizen at the time of application and, if invited to interview, you will need to bring proof of identity (British Passport, Driving Licence etc.) with you.

These roles require you to attain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.

For more information about this process, click here. Attaining DV will require you to have been resident in the UK for five of the last ten years. At least one year of this must have been a consecutive twelve-month period. Serving overseas with HM Forces, in some other official capacity as a representative of His Majestys Government, or having lived overseas as a result of your parents or partners Government employment counts as UK residency for the purposes of security clearances.

It is essential in your application that you provide evidence and proven examples in each of the following Minimum Criteria and Technical Skills as far as you are able to do so. These responses will be further developed and discussed with those candidates invited for interview.

Minimum Criteria

We are looking for someone with:

Background and experience in an information or cyber security discipline with good understanding of risk management and practices.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the capacity to explain technical details in an accessible manner.

Stakeholder management and negotiation, including the capability to justify decisions in the face of challenge.

Ongoing professional development including experience of applying training and best practice in order to deliver improvements.

Workflow management, including improvement of collaborative processes, and prioritisation of conflicting demands and timeframes.

Behaviours

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

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

Communicating and Influencing
Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

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

Protective Security Practitioner
Threat Understanding Working
Risk Understanding and Mitigation Working
Applied Security Capability – Working
Motivation Question.

We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form:

Protective Security Practitioner

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £53,000, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office contributes
£14,310 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

· A Civil Service Pension.
· 25 days Annual Leave per annum.
· 9 days Public and Privilege holidays per annum.
· Learning and Development tailored to your role.

See the attached Candidate Pack.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

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

This vacancy also uses the Government Security Profession Career Framework.

Please see the Hints and Tips that are provided for your information about how to prepare Behaviour examples at the Application and Interview stage.

At interview and candidates will be required to give a 5-minute Presentation. The topic of presentation will be sent to you in advance.

Please note that the FCDO carries out name-blind (anonymised) recruitment to help build a more diverse and inclusive workforce. The personal information on your Application form and/or CV will be concealed during the sifting phase, and only the names of those who are being invited for Interviews will be made known to the Panel.

Please refer to the Timetable in the Candidate Pack for indicative dates.

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 CSC Recruitment via CSC.Recruitment@fcdo.gov.uk 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 youre deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Further Information

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

Any move to FCDO 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

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

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicants details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

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.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting (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.

Apply and further information

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).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Gavin Watt
Email : Gavin.Watt@fcdo.gov.uk.

Recruitment team

Email : csc.recruitment@fcdo.gov.uk

Further information

The FCDOs recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should, in the first instance, contact csc.recruitment@fcdo.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the FCDO, you can contact the Office of the Civil Service Commissioners at info@csc.gov.uk.