Senior Security and Counter Fraud Advisor

As the department’s Senior Security and Counter Fraud Advisor, you will be at the heart of keeping the MoJ’s people safe and secure. We are looking for someone who is confident at briefing Ministers and senior leaders, customer focused and can embed a security and counter fraud ethos across MoJ and someone who is delivery focused and understands physical and personnel security and counter fraud challenges in a complex environment coupled with excellent leadership skills to build expert and inclusive teams.

In this role, you will be leading on personnel and physical security for MoJ, ensuring policy compliance, assurance and awareness for our front-line services. You will also be leading on the MoJ’s counter fraud work, in developing and implementing initiatives, designing, implementing and providing high quality counter fraud services and also in error reduction in the MoJ.

We are looking for someone who can deliver in these areas, demonstrate strong leadership to embed it across our organisation and provide high quality advice to ensure that senior stakeholders understand the importance of this work.

You will be part of the senior leadership team for the Security and Information Group, working to deliver our vision of making security, information and counter fraud everyone’s responsibility, and that it is embedded into the culture of the MoJ. We aim to work with teams and upskill them on how to protect themselves, their customers and their data.

This is a Nationally based role

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice and assurance to the Permanent Secretary, Ministers, Executive Board, Audit and Risk Committee and senior leaders on departmental personnel security, physical security and counter-fraud issues.
• Provide a customer-focused service on personnel and physical security and counter fraud issues across the entire MoJ, ensuring a security and counter-fraud culture is embedded across the department.
• Lead a diverse team of 43 experts, creating an inclusive environment with a clear vision and purpose where people feel like they belong and can thrive.
• Lead teams of personnel, physical and counter fraud, modelling MoJ and Civil Service values to foster and support the development of the security and counter-fraud professions, championing development, talent and career management.
• Develop and deliver operational policies, guidance and training to MoJ people, staff, suppliers, and partners so that everyone in MoJ knows and can discharge their personnel and physical security and counter-fraud duties effectively.
• Develop innovative ways to tackle security threats by building MoJ capability in areas such as insider threat, unauthorised disclosures, handling secret and top-secret information.
• Ensure adherence to the HMG minimum physical and personnel security standards, legislative requirements, the Protect Duty, and assurance requirements such as the Department Security Health Check. Use intelligence and information from those processes to identify risks, areas for improvement and achievement of government security standards.
• Put the right controls in place to prevent personnel and physical incidents from happening and where they do happen, being in a position to respond well and recover quickly.
• Lead the MoJ’s engagement with the Cabinet Office Government Security Group, and collaborate with the National Technical Authorities, such as the National Cyber Security Centre, National Protective Security Authority and National Authority for Counter Eavesdropping, other government departments and external partners, to continuously evaluate and improve security services.
• Act as an intelligent customer, requesting and monitoring services from the Protective Security Centre and Government Security Centres. Supporting the Government Chief Security Officer to ensure the security requirements of MoJ are being met.
• Develop proactive measures to detect suspicious activity and ensuring the MoJ is compliant with the government counter fraud standards and the requirements within the Public Sector Fraud Agency’s mandate.
• Through leadership of the Portfolio Office, manage the Security and Information Group’s performance reporting, risk and issues management, workforce planning, corporate finance, and governance across the directorate to ensure best practice is in place.

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Additional Information

Please view our candidate information pack for full details about the role, key responsibilities person specification, and the criteria you will be assessed against throughout the recruitment process.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, and feel that you meet the criteria, we would welcome your application

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Managing a Quality Service

• 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 average employer contribution of 27%
• 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

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above.
This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions.
Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and
conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your
personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any
absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you
to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Job contact :

• Name : SCS Recruitment Team
• Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk