434934 Head of Security Risk
Birmingham, Blackpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield
Pay of £82,026, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, andgreat worklife balance.
This is a rare opportunity to shape security risk at national scale, influencing decisions that directly protect millions of citizens and the UKs most critical public services.
The Head of Security Risk leads DWPs strategic security risk function, operating at enterprise scale across all security domains: cyber, personnel, physical and supply chain security.
In this role you will provide authoritative, organisation wide security risk insight to senior leaders, enabling them to make confident, well informed decisions that protect departmental objectives, services and UK citizens.
This is a role with national significance, given DWPs scale: 96,000 staff, £250bn in annual payments, personal data on every living UK citizen, and a threat landscape spanning everything from frontline operational incidents, insiders, organised crime groups and state sponsored cyber actors.
As our Head of Security Risk you will shape how DWP identifies, understands and responds to these risks, ensuring the department delivers services safely, securely and resiliently.
You'll lead a team of approximately 15 staff and be responsible for strengthening DWPs security risk capability,...