Head of Future Working at SECRET
| Posting date: | 23 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £64,700 to £75,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National - £64,700 - £69,200 London - £68,790 - £75,000 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2024 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 353847/3 |
Summary
Role information
This exciting role will lead the work of the Cabinet Office in coordinating and enabling delivery of HMG’s next generation of working at SECRET capabilities, building on but not being constrained by today’s foundational services. This is a leadership role with real strategic import as we seek to protect UK information assets and capabilities from capable hostile actors and enhance UK prosperity by enabling the UK’s cyber industry to blossom. There will also be an international dimension, benchmarking and aligning our approaches with our FIVE EYES partners and other allies.
The ideal candidate will have presence, drive, empathy and determination. It is not a technical role per se, but the successful candidate should be comfortable drawing on expert advice, and have a keen interest in how technology can enable business outcomes. They will lead a small team within GSG to develop and deliver the required strategy and programme of work, and be supported by experts, including the UK’s national technical authorities. They will collaborate extensively with colleagues elsewhere within Cabinet Office and across Defence, National Security, Civil Government and Law Enforcement. Indeed, critical to success will be the post holder’s ability to create close working relationships across departments and the wider stakeholder network to ensure our overall approach to future working at SECRET accurately reflects the need and is consistently agreed and adopted.
You will enjoy significant responsibility, broad visibility and the opportunity for accelerated professional development. There will be a requirement to travel across HMG, and other sites in the UK when undertaking this role.
Key responsibilities
- Leading future working at SECRET across GSG, working closely with counterparts across the government and wider national security communities to ensure our overall approach to SECRET working is well-informed and coherent.
- Taking forward the recommendations agreed by the Civil Service Board for HMG to make more use of SECRET capabilities and to coordinate the development of the next generation of these.
- Directing a G7 engagement lead in identifying, analysing and securing agreement across departments on what is needed in this space, how to deliver and fund it.
- Leading and overseeing engagement with departments and organisations to ensure alignment of proposed solutions, standards and policies, and adoption of a coherent approach for future working at SECRET.
- Collaborating with technologists in NCSC, CDDO and industry to identify technological solutions to the user requirements.
- Producing a Cabinet Office Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) bid to fund enabling capability delivery.
- Collaborating with other bidding departments to ensure that bid is part of a set of coordinated CSR bids across all relevant departments.
- Creating, gaining agreement to and delivering a plan for the implementation of the new strategy.
- Ensuring effective communications are produced to inform all stakeholder communities, including ministers and senior officials, and delivering supporting briefings as required.
- Holding the line across departmental stakeholders to ensure their full support for, and collaboration in, this common enterprise.
- Maintaining a governance regime, ensuring blockers are identified, seniors are well sighted and issues are escalated to ensure prompt delivery.
- Drafting submissions and making recommendations to senior stakeholders, including within GSG, the wider Cabinet Office, senior boards (such as the Civil Service Board (CSB) and Government Security Steering Group (GSSG)).
- Owning engagement with commercial, legal and finance functions and HMT.
- Sourcing additional resources as needed to support work streams.
- Line management of one G7, developing and motivating staff to ensure everyone achieves their potential.