Personnel Risk Officer
| Posting date: | 07 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £34,000 to £35,700 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 February 2025 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 389421/1 |
Summary
Corporate and Delivery Directorate works closely with the Home Office’s policy and operational commands to enable us together to deliver the department’s priorities. The directorate is comprised of different teams and professional functions, including Commercial, Finance, People, Portfolio and Project Delivery, Security, Estates and Information and Digital, Data and Technology.
All parts of the government security system are undergoing rapid and exciting change as part of the Transforming Government Security programme. Improved security standards and a new professional framework are at the heart of these changes that will ensure government is better able to protect citizens and provide vital public services by understanding and addressing security risks.
Protective Security Centre Operations are a dedicated and highly skilled team, responsible for processing and assessing high volumes of security applications for staff and contractors across 15 Whitehall departments. This role provides an exciting opportunity to work within an innovative, professional, and evolving unit, and to play an important part in delivering security vetting functions to the Home Office and other customer departments and agencies.
This role is highly suited to a person who is confident is making risk assessments, who has strong written and verbal communication skills, deal sensitively with staff of all grades across multiple government departments, is well motivated and who can deal with competing priorities.
The Personnel Risk Management team is responsible for the delivery of National Security Vetting Aftercare across the 15 customer departments to the Personnel Security Standards set by Cabinet Office. Aftercare explores anything of security concern, between periods of normal vetting review, which potentially affects an individual holding a national security vetting clearance. It aims to reduce personnel security risks by engaging with staff and their managers to identify and resolve potential vulnerabilities early.
This role is suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. The team are based in London – 2 Marsham Street. The post holder will be required to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time at this location due to the need to access secure accommodation and documentation. The remainder of the working time can be spent working from home.
Key Responsibilities
Your duties will include but will not be limited to:
- Assessing vetting issues and identifying potential security risks including finances and Annual Security Appraisals, making and recommending decisions on the ongoing management of security clearance at CTC, SC and DV level.
- Secure handling of highly sensitive and personal details in line with data protection rules when considering personnel risks.
- Contribute to the team delivery of targets, goals and milestones to ensure Service Level Agreements or agreed timescales are met.
- Assist in production of management information data.
- Maintain relationships with Other Government Departments (ODGs) and various security agencies, liaising with staff and stakeholders.
- Support the delivery of National Security Vetting, ensuring consistent and efficient service delivery in line with departmental procedures.
- To effectively manage security enquiries that come into the team mailbox and provide personnel security advice.
- Providing support and vetting casework advice to team members on personnel security risks and threat mitigation.
Note: This is not an exclusive list, and the post holder will be required to perform any additional duties reasonably expected of them within the scope of the grade and within the limits of their skill, competence and training.
Working Pattern
This role is available on both a full-time and part-time basis, with a minimum requirement to work 4 days per week (0.8 FTE) due to business requirements.
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