Cyber Security Risk Manager Lead (£40,808 - £57,400)
| Posting date: | 02 October 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £40,808 to £40,808 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Plus an additional allowance up to £16,592 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 October 2024 |
| Location: | Oldham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 372094/6 |
Summary
This role involves developing risk management strategies, ensuring compliance with government security standards, and collaborating with various departments to protect sensitive data and systems.
The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, risk assessment methodologies, and threat management, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
The position is critical to safeguarding the agency’s mission and operations against evolving cyber threats.
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Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- The Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager identifies, understands and mitigates cyber-related risks, and provides risk or service owners with advice to help them make well informed risk-based decisions, focusing on:
- Project activity to ensure compliance with information legislation and DVSA policy particularly HMG’s Security Policy Framework, and NCSC Standards.
- Raising risks as necessary to respond to any non-compliance and provides direction for Information Management and Security to manage the ongoing assurance of DVSAs information assets and products, and liaising with Department for Transport Assurance Authority or equivalent, when necessary.
- Lead the analysis and derivation of business-supporting security needs, undertake Cyber Security related risk assessments, conduct tailored threat assessment and other risk management activities, and ensure activities are consistent with applicable regulations and legislation.
- Provide tailored advice to a range of stakeholders on how to remedy identified risks by proportionately applying security capabilities, using published guidance, standards, and drawing on a range of experts as well as personal expertise.
- Responsibility for ensuring DVSA’s compliance with key principles and outcomes outlined in HMGs Security Policy Framework, NCSC CAF and or NIST, to Cyber and related governance models and supporting the reporting of these to DfT and Cabinet Office.
- With responsibility for direct reports, you will demonstrate leadership by providing guidance to staff to support the delivery of objectives. Manage and engage with honesty and integrity, and upholding the reputation of the Agency, Department and Civil Service.
- Leads incident response as directed by the Head of Cyber Assurance, including responding to alerts from any Security Operations Centre monitoring DVSA Systems.
For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.