Strategy Lead - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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- £50,694 - £57,654

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Grade 7
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
CO
Government Security Group
Type of role:
Finance
Policy
Strategy
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
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Job summary:

The Government Security Function (GSF) oversees the delivery of protective security across Government.

Our Mission is to enable Government to protect citizens and provide vital public services by understanding and managing security risks.

We set the strategy and standards for Government Security, monitor departmental security performance, manage pan-government security incidents, support the delivery of key security capabilities and lead the Government Security Profession.

The Government Security Group (GSG) is the centre of the Security Function, based within the Cabinet Office.

GSG is transforming the Government's approach to protective security to ensure it is fit to meet the challenges of the digital age.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, dynamic team, with a breadth of stakeholders including other Government departments, the National Technical Authorities and the Agencies, and to contribute to delivering improved security across Government.

The Cyber Directorate is made up of three teams: Cyber Operations and Assurance, Cyber Transformation, and Cyber Policy and Solutions.

The directorate is responsible for delivering the first Government Cyber Security Strategy; to make Government's critical functions significantly hardened to common attacks by 2025, and all Government organisations across the public sector resilient to known vulnerabilities and attack methods no later than 2030.

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Role information

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in: ensuring that core government functions are resilient to cyber attack, strengthening the UK as a sovereign nation, and cementing its authority as a democratic and responsible cyber power.

Working at the heart of government, as part of the Cyber Security Transformation Team you will be responsible for ensuring the transformational objectives outlined in the Government Cyber Security Strategy (GCSS) remain relevant and integrated into the wider government agenda.

This will require updating GCSS objectives, influencing other work across government to ensure alignment and leading on the forthcoming Spending Review.

Key areas of responsibility

The post holder will be responsible for:

Providing strategic advice and analysis on financial impact, performance and risk to senior stakeholders and through this contributing to the strategic direction of the GCSS. This includes providing accurate current and multi-year financial forecasts and plans
Leading on fiscal events and other negotiations with HMT, coordinating bid development across HMG.
Building strong relationships with relevant functional stakeholders across Cabinet Office and wider HMG, to encourage alignment and cooperation, and the most efficient use of public finance
Integrating the delivery outcomes of the GCSS into the agenda and objectives of wider government supporting the digital and cyber skills agenda, and supporting implementation of National Security objectives.
Continuing to evolve the GCSS objectives and priorities, ensuring that these remain fit for purpose.
Engaging with departments, HM Treasury and other sectors of Government on local cyber security strategies to ensure they are fit for purpose and enable government organisations to raise their cyber security maturity in an evolving threat landscape.

Day to day responsibilities may include:

Attending cross government cyber security strategy boards to understand and support the strategic aims and bringing in the GSG cyber perspective
Drafting submissions, papers and briefings for governance boards, senior officials and Ministers
Providing strategic advice to teams across the cyber directorate. This will include identifying opportunities, risks, and interdependencies between the GCSS programmes and other projects across government.
Engaging with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to understand their requirements and manage expectations

Person specification:

Person specification

Essential skills and experience:

Experience of working on fiscal events and strategy formulation across disparate business units or government departments
Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to articulate a strategic vision for a complex organisation or system, to ensure a range of internal and external stakeholders are engaged and supportive.
An ability to work with initiative, accurately and c