Govassure Assessment and Review - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £38,046 - £41,053
Job grade:

Senior Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
CO
Government Security Group
Type of role:
Security
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
3Contents

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About the job

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Location

Glasgow, YorkAbout the job

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 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 in other Government departments, the National Technical Authorities and the Agencies, and to contribute to delivering improved security across Government.

The Cyber Defence directorate covers all aspects of Defensive Cyber Security for Government including strategy, policy, assurance, red teaming, capability development, and the operational deliverables of incident, risk and vulnerability management.

We also manage investment from the National Cyber Security Programme, and manage the implementation of the Government Cyber Security Strategy.

If you're passionate about protecting government, you want to be part of a security evolution, and you have a grounding in cyber security, this is the team for you.

Come and help make government stronger.

The Cyber Assurance team is designing and implementing the new cyber assurance regime for government, GovAssure, which is an updated approach for understanding and improving government cyber resilience.

It utilises the NCSC's CAF framework is currently being piloted with a small number of departments, with full rollout in 2023.

The team is dynamic, and works closely with Engagement and Operations staff to understand departmental challenges as well as assisting in some of the response activities.

This is an exciting opportunity to come and help shape delivery of the new regime and roll it out across government next year.

Job description:

The post holder will be responsible for joining the team delivering the scheme, which in the short term will involve evaluation of pilots, working with departments to understand how implementation will be run across their Arms Length Bodies and partner organisations; working with our security partners to prepare industry and working on our data strategy for interpreting and managing results.

Specifically, when GovAssure launches it will use a structured process which will involve GSG participation and this post will take part in workshops and decision points to understand how the scheme will be implemented, with particular focus on System scoping and departmental mitigations post report.

Person specification:

Essential skills and experience

You will be comfortable working in a technical environment and you will have experience of working with Cyber in an enterprise context.

Desirable skills and experience

Experience of working in national security.
Working across organisations with a range of stakeholders.

Level of Security Clearance required:

SC existing security clearance is not required however there must be willingness to undergo SC. This may also include DV if required.

Behaviours:

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

Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing
Changing and Improving
Working Together

Benefits:

Learning and development tailored to your role.
An environment with flexible working options.
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%.
A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

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Selection process details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
Application process

You will be asked to provide an anonymised CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements.

You will be asked to provide a 250-word statement for each behaviour 'Making Effective Decisions', 'Communicating and Influencing', 'Changing and Improving' and 'Working Together' e