About the Role: In this senior leadership role, you will own and drive cyber security strategy, governance and operational resilience across Surrey County Council's complex hybrid environment. Your typical week will include:
* Leading cyber risk management, governance forums and assurance activity across IT&D, ensuring risks are identified, assessed and clearly reported to senior stakeholders.
* Overseeing incident preparedness and live response, including coordination with suppliers, IT operations and information governance.
* Providing expert direction on security technologies, control effectiveness, logging/monitoring, and vulnerability management priorities.
* Setting clear security expectations and driving cultural change across service owners, technical teams and leadership groups.
* Developing and maintaining cyber policies, standards and evidence based reporting.
Within your first 12-18 months, you will be expected to lead or significantly contribute to:
* Delivery of a refreshed cyber security strategy and multi-year improvement roadmap.
* Establishment of strengthened cyber governance, including improved reporting, risk tracking and decision making structures.
* Implementation of a formal cyber exercising programme (tabletop and technical) across IT&D, information governance and key suppliers.
* Measurable improvements in vulnerability management, logging/monitoring coverage and supplier assurance.
* Significant uplift in incident response maturity, including documentation of playbooks, interfaces and recovery expectations.
Qualifications
* Significant senior cyber security leadership experience in a complex organisation.
* Strong capability to operate strategically and hands on, delivering measurable security improvements.
* Deep understanding of cyber risk management, governance and assurance frameworks.
* Proven experience leading cyber incidents, including response coordination and exercising.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder influence skills across technical and non-technical groups.
* Familiarity with NCSC aligned approaches and/or frameworks such as NIST CSF.
* Relevant professional qualifications such as CISSP or CISM.
Employer Commitment
We are a disability confident employer which means if you have shared a disability on your application form and have evidenced you meet the minimum criteria, we guarantee you an interview. Your skills and experience truly matter to us. From application to your first day, we're committed to supporting you with any adjustments you need, we value inclusion and warmly welcome you to join and help build a workplace where everyone be
Eligibility
This position is only available to applicants who already work for Surrey County Council.
Location & Working Model
We are excited to be recruiting a Chief Information Security Officer to join our fantastic team based at Woodhatch Place in Reigate. We offer a hybrid working model with a minimum of two office days per week.
Starting salary: £70,975 per annum, for working 36 hours per week.
Benefits
* 26 days' holiday, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 31 days after 5 years' service (prorated for part time staff)
* Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
* A generous local government salary related pension
* Up to 5 days of carer's leave and 2 paid volunteering days per year
* Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
* An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
* Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
* Wellbeing and lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, and shopping
* A chance to make a real difference to the lives of our residents.
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