Overview
University of Sheffield
Job Reference Number: 1784
Working Pattern: Full Time 35 Hours per week. 100%
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: IT Services
Closing Date: 13 November 2025
Role and Responsibilities
* You will lead a high performing information security team, protecting the University from cyber attacks and providing assurance to the University and its partners on information security matters.
* You will work with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to develop and embed mature and sustainable information security capabilities.
* As the leader of the Information Security function for the University, you will build and develop the teams responsible for security operations, assurance, and identity and access management.
* You will work in a high profile role in a trusted team that strives to ensure information security activities enable research and education across the University. The team is based in the Department of IT Services, responsible for the delivery of trusted IT services to the University.
About Information Security and the University
The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.
Benefits
We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.
Find out more at www.sheffield.ac.uk/benefits and join us to become part of something special.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.
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