Job Title: Head of Information & Cyber Policy Management & Assurance
Location: Hybrid - Reading (2-3 days/week onsite, travel expensed)
Clearance: Active SC clearance required (minimum)
Contract Type: Inside IR35
Duration: 6 months
Start Date: ASAP
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Overview:
We are supporting a strategically significant programme in the defence and national security space and are seeking a senior leader to take on the role of Head of Information & Cyber Policy Management & Assurance.
This contract role will lead information security and cyber policy governance at a programme level, ensuring frameworks, standards, and assurance activities are aligned with complex operational delivery and high-assurance requirements.
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Key Responsibilities:
* Define and own the information and cyber policy strategy across a classified programme
* Set governance standards and oversee security assurance frameworks
* Lead audit, assessment, and compliance activities across multiple delivery streams
* Act as senior authority for policy interpretation, waivers, risk acceptance and exemptions
* Ensure alignment between policy, assurance, risk management, and engineering delivery
* Provide clear senior-level reporting on compliance status and security posture
* Engage confidently with stakeholders across cyber, engineering, assurance, and governance functions
* Drive continuous improvement in policy maturity and assurance consistency
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Required Experience & Skills:
* Extensive experience leading cyber and information security policy and assurance functions
* Proven background operating at Head of / Senior Manager / Principal authority level
* Strong knowledge of risk-based governance, compliance, and assurance models
* Defence, government, or similarly regulated experience essential
* Comfortable balancing policy rigour with operational delivery in secure environments
* Strong communicator, capable of influencing at senior and executive levels
* Active SC clearance required (minimum)
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If you have senior-level experience shaping and leading policy and assurance in secure, regulated environments and are available to start immediately, apply now for more information.