Overview
DWP Estates is not just about maintaining buildings - it's about transformation. Our strategic goals include: Transitioning to a smaller, more affordable, and adaptable estate to meet future needs; Investing in infrastructure through planned replacement works; Embedding sustainability in line with Government Greening Commitments (GGCs); Delivering cost-effective services while maintaining high standards; Creating a professional, best-in-class working culture across the Government Property profession. Our Estates strategy ambitions have been refreshed to take us through to 2030: OPTIMISE, INVEST, SUPPORT, DELIVER, THRIVE.
Responsibilities
* Manage the complex, technical delivery of security projects within DWP from inception to completion. Strategic planning with electronic security systems to ensure the estate is future-proofed against aged and obsolete systems. Help develop and enhance the Department\'s electronic security controls and systems, including maximising its data to improve overall security performance, business benefits and safety.
* Accountable for supplier delivery management within the Technical Security Function. Help manage supplier engagement to ensure contract obligations are met and, where necessary, take corrective action to improve performance and supplier fulfilment. Define a clear understanding of security complexities involved through changes in security contracts while resolving complex issues through to resolution.
* Provide leadership on the management and processing of data generated from the electronic security controls in line with GDPR legislation and DWP policies.
* Work closely with DWP stakeholders to identify security requirements or enhancements to systems, including technical changes to ensure the satisfactory delivery of Security Programmes (including the Critical Security Infrastructure (CSI) programme). Develop DWP\'s security standards in conjunction with stakeholders to ensure standards operate in line with DWP, industry and HM Government security standards.
* Focus on reducing costs, improving service delivery, encouraging innovation and benefits realisation. Collaborate with suppliers to develop early corrective actions and improve performance.
* Work with the DWP Estates Performance & Audit team to develop a performance framework with data and reporting aligned to contractual obligations. Employ a RIBA plan of work and best practice to review performance and identify opportunities for benefits realisation in both the Security programmes and the Security Control Centre (SCC).
* Ensure compliance with legislative requirements of security services and programme delivery across the estate, including Data Protection, Financial and Enterprise Security Resilience Management (ESRM) colleagues.
* Lead engagement with key internal and external stakeholders, influencing outcomes positively. Provide professional security leadership to DWP Stakeholders, Other Government Departments (OGDs) and Supply Chain Leads. This includes providing specialist security Subject Matter Expert expertise to DWP, its clients and across the DWP estate.
Qualifications and Other Information
* Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. In some recruitment situations (high-volume, seasonal, peak times), the employer may limit the overall number of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants. For more details please visit the relevant government pages.
* For jobs located in Wales, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.
* The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the government\'s largest public service departments with a sizeable annual budget, serving over 20 million citizens. The estate spans 1.4 million square metres across 800+ sites and supports around 78,000 colleagues. Our vision includes DWP colleagues, supply chain, partners and, most fundamentally, the customers the Department exists to serve. We are responsible for the day-to-day operation of our vast Estate by managing a private sector supply chain that delivers essential services such as Security Guarding, Maintenance, Property and Leasehold Management, Construction, Cleaning and Facilities Management.
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