Role: Security & Resilience Consultant
Contract Length: 6 months with a view to extending
Location: Swindon - Minimum of 2 days per week and will ask for a visit to the other UKRI sites - expenses with be in accordance with UKRI policy
Pay Rate to Candidate: Maximum £750 per day (insideIR35)
Security Clearance Required: SC
Description:
Must:
Meet and be clearly mapped against the requirements of GovS 007 and any local Council and supporting Centres, Institutes and Units (CIU) legislative S&R requirements.
Be supported by templated processes against which audits can be consistently and uniformly delivered.
SHOULD be developed where practicable and clearly mapped against relevant industry standards (i.e., ISO, BSI, etc) to create an example of best practice.
Develop and deliver repeatable processes which MUST achieve an annual audit of all UKRI Councils and CIUs against the maturity framework.
Develop and deliver qualitative and quantitative metrics to be achieved through the annual audits which MUST:
Be expressed both visually via appropriate dashboards and in narrative form.
Be automated wherever practicable.
Be intuitive and impactful for both UKRI S&R professionals and accountable senior leaders.
Provide maturity scoring and peer-to-peer comparisons of UKRI Councils and CIUs.
Meet the requirements, and allow seamless delivery of, the annual Departmental Security Health Check (DSHC) return.
Develop and deliver a templated, structured, consistent and repeatable process which MUST:
Be delivered on the completion of each Council and CIU annual audit.
Inform risk management, identify lessons and define areas of development.
Provide a clear and deliverable 'get well plan' to be implemented locally by relevant Council and CIU S&R professionals against a defined time scale.
Provide a clear executive summary for the relevant Council and CIU senior leadership.
Deliver an initial round of audits across all UKRI Councils which MUST provide an initial maturity peer-to-peer score, support delivery of the DSHC and ensure all new processes are reviewed and amended (if required).
Present initial maturity scores to the UKRI SSA and support presentations to senior leaders.
Deliver workshops to UKRI S&R professionals to train them on new processes which MUST allow UKRI to repeat the annual audit process.
Provide recommendations for the development of UKRI S&R to ensure the organisation is positioned to repeat the process annually (i.e., creation of key posts, delivery of training, etc).
Essential:
Work routinely on site from Polaris House, Swindon, and be able to travel regularly (as required) to UKRI sites including, but not exhaustively, in Didcot, Cambridge, London and Keyworth.
Have experience of delivering operational S&R in complex federated organisations.
Have experience of developing and delivering S&R maturity models.
Be a qualified ISO Lead Implementer.
Have an in-depth knowledge of GovS 007: Security and the DSHC.
SHOULD have experience of working in a UK Government Department or ALB
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status
