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Senior Policy Adviser - Heavy Rail Security Policy

Job details
Posting date: 10 June 2024
Salary: £40,808 per year
Additional salary information: National salary minimum: £40,808: London salary minimum: £44,811
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 23 June 2024
Location: Birmingham
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 354842/1

Summary

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Do you have an interest in security and enjoy collaborating with a range of partners?

Would you like an opportunity to develop security policy and regulation?

If so, we are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive individual to join our Domestic Rail Security team, and we would love to hear from you.

The Department for Transport (DfT) is responsible for maintaining high standards of safety and security in transport. Our Integration and Security Directorate is at the heart of this work to ensure the UK’s railways deliver better services for passengers and freight, in a way that also delivers high levels of security, resilience and safety.

Our Division consists of five teams covering Rail Resilience Liaison and Policing and Crime, International Rail Security, Domestic Rail Security, Roads and Vehicles Security, and Compliance activities for any regulations covering these areas.

Our Domestic Rail Security Policy team is responsible for setting security regulations on behalf of the Secretary of State to protect the domestic rail networks against acts of violence (terrorism).

As Senior Policy Adviser, you will have the lead responsibility for setting and developing security policy and regulation, as well as providing security advice on domestic national (heavy) rail security.

In this role, you will lead on maintaining, developing and ensuring that our security regulations remain appropriate for the threats to the national rail networks. You will have extensive liaison with industry and government partners as well as colleagues across Department for Transport (DfT).

This role requires some domestic travel within Great Britain. In the event of a terrorist attack or other emergency, you may be required to be involved in the department’s incident response, including working outside normal business hours and from our London office.

If you would like to find out more about what it's like to work at DfT Rail, please click here.

Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Leading, with our external and internal partners, to maintain, update and develop our National Railways Security Programme (NRSP).
  • Supporting our Compliance Inspectors in the applications of our regulations and ensuring our industry partners understand our regime.
  • Developing and maintaining working relationships with rail operators, industry bodies, British Transport Police and National Protective Security Authority NPSA.
  • Representing the Department and the division on a range of working groups, including management of two of the teams’ regular industry stakeholder engagement events.
  • Overseeing the team work on national security vetting for industry contacts across the domestic rail networks.
  • Working with the Department’s internal and external research partners as required.
  • Line management responsibilities for two HEO and one EO colleagues.