Details
Reference number
428001
Salary
£48,720 - £52,130
GBP
Job grade
Senior Executive Officer
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
HO - Digital Data and Technology
Type of role
Information Technology
Policy
Working pattern
Full-time, Compressed hours
Number of jobs available
1
Contents
* Location
* About the job
* Benefits
* Things you need to know
* Apply and further information
Location
Croydon
About the job
Job summary
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
Home Office Digital, Data and Technology designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles and property.
The role focuses on shaping, reviewing and implementing Home Office Cyber Security (HOCS) policies, standards and framework. It involves liaising with stakeholders, coordinating governance artefacts, ensuring compliance with best practice and regulatory requirements. This position plays a key role in safeguarding sensitive information, strengthening cyber resilience and supporting critical Home Office services.
Candidates should consider this role if they are passionate about shaping vital cybersecurity policies and strategies that improve everyday life and influence the country's future, offering a strong sense of satisfaction.
Job description
As a Senior Cyber Security Policy Manager at the Home Office, you will lead the development, implementation and review of cyber security policies and standards. You'll work closely with stakeholders to ensure compliance with best practices and regulatory requirements. This role is pivotal in safeguarding sensitive information and enhancing cyber resilience across critical services.
Key Responsibilities
* Contributing to the vision, principles and strategy set down by the Head of Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), ensuring that it reflects the needs of HOCS and the wider Department.
* Liaising with stakeholders within the Home Office to ensure that policies and standards are seamlessly deployed.
* Coordinating, maintaining, and regularly reviewing the policies, standards, and HOCS-defined artefact templates.
* Ensuring appropriate change management and configuration control of the policies, standards, and HOCS-defined artefact templates.
* Reviewing the latest cyber security standards, threat intelligence, frameworks, guidance (for example NIST, ISO 27001, NCSC) to ensure that the latest industry best practice is reflected throughout the Home Office's own cyber policies and standards.
* Identifying ways to continually improve the Home Office's cyber policies and standards and acting as a point of escalation for the team.
* Communicating and implementing HOCS policies and standards.
* Devising a schedule of policy / standard compliance reviews and conducting them in collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders across DDaT and wider Home Office portfolios.
* Task and line management of a HEO in the team and up skill new and existing team members.
* Contributing to the central co-ordination, maintenance and review of policies, standards and other business area artefacts / templates to deliver continuous improvement.
* Developing procedures for appropriate change management and configuration control of policies, standards, business area artefacts / templates.
* Collaborating with Home Office and other Government Department peers to align and deconflict with their related policy areas and support any gap analysis that requires development of new policies.
* Contributing to the development of guidance on policy implementation.
* Keeping up to date with wider policy developments / standards / legislation / technology to ensure policy artefacts remain current.
* Keeping up to date with the latest industry / policy area standards, frameworks and guidance to ensure best practice is reflected in policies and standards across the Home Office e.g. the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) guidance and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framework.
Working Pattern
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, compressed hours are available.
The current building location for this role is Croydon.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
* Ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships across digital and public sector environments, fostering collaboration and innovative problem-solving.
* Demonstrable experience of delivering continuous improvement initiatives.
* Ability to analyse and interpret legislation and other key information.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging and deliver clear presentations to varied audiences.
* Experience of working with diverse teams across multiple locations.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Communicating and Influencing
* Delivering at Pace
* Seeing the Big Picture
* Working Together
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
* Communicating and Influencing
Benefits
In addition to your salary, a career with the Home Office offers a range of benefits, including:
* A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
* In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
* 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service to 30 days.
* Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
* Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.
See more of our benefits on our careers website.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.
1. Application – by Thursday 2nd October 2025
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:
* CV
* Personal Statement (maximum 500 words).
* Evidence of the Lead Behaviour 'Communicating and Influencing' (maximum of 250 words per Behaviour).
Your CV should consist of your career history and skills/experience, including any key achievements in each role. Your CV will be scored against the experience required for the role as noted within the essential criteria.
The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.
For guidance and information on how to construct your application (CV, Personal Statement and Behaviours), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.
1. Sift – week commencing Monday 6th October 2025
The sift will be held on the CV, Personal Statement and Lead Behaviour 'Communicating and Influencing'.
Should a high volume of applications be received, the sift will be conducted only on the Personal Statement and Lead Behaviour 'Communicating and Influencing'.
1. Interview – week commencing Monday 20th October 2025
If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will be Behaviours (as listed in the job advert).
Interviews will be carried out via video. Candidates will be required to have access to:
* A laptop (personal or work) with a working webcam
* Good internet connection
* Microsoft Teams
For guidance and information on what to expect and how to prepare for an interview, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct.
If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre- stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application; however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Problems during the application process
If you experience problems accessing this advert, or you think you've made a mistake on an initial application, please contact, including the vacancy reference, at least two working days before the vacancy closes. Further information can be found on our website.
Do not create or attempt to submit another application, online test or use a different Civil Service Jobs account to proceed as this would be in violation of the candidate declaration.
Location Preference
You will only be able to select a single location preference so please ensure this is a location that you are prepared to travel to. If you are offered a role at your preferred location and you decline, your application will be withdrawn.
Reserve List
A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made. There is no guarantee that being held on a reserve list will lead to a job offer. Further information can be found on our website.
Candidates judged to be a near miss at interview may be offered a post at the grade below the one advertised without the need to go through a further selection process, providing the role has the same Success Profiles elements and essential skills. There is no guarantee that further such vacancies will arise.
Standards
All Civil Servants are expected to comply with the Civil Service Code, and its core values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.
Additional Security Checks
As well as successfully obtaining UK Security Vetting clearance, candidates will be subject to a range of additional checks. The range of checks carried out will depend on whether you are a current Home Office employee, existing civil servant or an external new entrant as well as the role requirements. The level of Criminal Record Check required for this role is Basic. Further details are included in the Notes to Candidates.
Non-Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV)
You should currently hold, or be willing to obtain, Non-Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV) Level-3 vetting (including financial checks). This is essential for the role. For further information visit About the Police National Vetting Service, Warwickshire Police.
Reasonable Adjustments
If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
* Contact Government Recruitment Service via as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
* Complete the "Assistance Required" section in the "Additional Requirements" page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a language service professional
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .
See our vetting charter .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
* UK nationals
* nationals of the Republic of Ireland
* nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
* individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
* Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
* Name : Home Office Resourcing Centre
* Email :
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Further information
If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Civil Service recruitment principles and you wish to make a complaint, then contact the Government Recruitment Service via If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission.