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SalaryThe Protective Security Centre delivers services, capability-building and thought leadership to drive down the security risk to government. Working with clients across government to understand their security profiles and build bespoke support plans to address their security needs. We are aware that our clients know their risk areas better than anyone. We blend that local knowledge with our cross-government insights to deliver tailored support that meets client needs, helping them access best practice from across the security sector.
We are one of five Government Security Centres and provide security advice and consultancy services to government departments. We are comprised of two consultancy teams and an operations team, supported by communication and engagement and business support functions. The consultancy provides expert protective security advice in partnership with the National Technical Authorities (NTAs) and the Government Security Group. Our operations team delivers personnel security and information handling services to a wide range of public bodies.
The successful candidate will assist, support, and actively contribute to the delivery of authoritative protective people and physical security advice to reduce departmental/organisational vulnerabilities and mitigate the insider threat.
Specifically:
• Application of PSC tools allowing organisations to assess people and physical security risks and evaluate current methods and processes to determine organisations security maturity.
• Creating and delivering security awareness briefings.
• Facilitating security risk workshops.
• Analysing the findings from people and physical security assessments/reviews and identifying risk-based solutions/recommendations to support organisations protective security improvement plans.
• Drafting of detailed and concise evidence-based people and physical security assessment reports that articulate, security threats, risks, vulnerabilities, and issues in unambiguous ways.
• Deputise for people and physical Security Advisers with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide people and physical security advice, guidance and support to the customer base.
• Respond to customer queries submitted to the PSC portal.
• Identify emerging security issues and trends which may impact PSC delivery, identifying common themes or risks for further attention and/or development.
• Understand and explain complex security related issues in a manner appropriate to the intended audience.
• Contribute to the development of PSC services, tools and products by driving continuous improvement in team processes and identifying opportunities to adopt common approaches to planning, or reducing complexity.
• Championing and communicating new initiatives impacting on delivery of PSC services.
• Responsibility for own professional development, including maintaining a sound understanding of National Technical Authority protective security advice, guidance, and tools (i.e., risk frameworks and maturity models) and Gov 007 security standards.
In line with Home Office policy, these posts can be based at any of the locations advertised and there will be flexibility to adopt a hybrid working pattern according to business need with the post holder adopting the 60% minimum workplace attendance.
