Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager
| Posting date: | 04 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,720 to £52,130 per year |
| Additional salary information: | New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the salary band minimum: £44720 for National roles. £48,720 for London Roles. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills assessment, with a v |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 June 2025 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 409269/1 |
Summary
Will you join us to help embed robust governance, risk management and compliance practices across the Home Office?
As Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager, you will:
- Identify, understand and mitigate cyber-related risks.
- Help to evaluate the security risks to information and processes in our critical national infrastructure and business critical systems.
- Use your expertise and draw on a range of evidence to provide advice to stakeholders across the organisation to ensure well-informed risk-based decision making.
You’ll be aided in your role by a diverse and supportive organisational culture, and a commitment to further your continuous development.
Hybrid working
DDaT is geographically spread across a number of locations with most staff working in line with the Department’s hybrid working arrangements (a minimum of 60% of time in an office location, with the remainder working from home). You will need to agree a base location of either Croydon, Liverpool, Manchester or Sheffield and there may be a requirement for occasional travel to other locations.
The Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager plans and implements organisation-wide processes and procedures for the management of risk. They monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of the risk management processes across the organisation and make recommendations for continuous improvement.
As a Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager, your main day-to-day responsibilities will be:
- Working within established security and risk management governance structures, usually under supervision to support, review and undertake straightforward risk management activities such as: undertaking cyber security related risk assessments; basic threat assessments and other risk management activities.
- Communicating the risk assessment outcomes to stakeholders in ways that support effective security, risk management and decision-making.
- Developing risk management-related policy and assuring the ongoing appropriateness of policy in accordance with regulation and wider organisational and government policies.
- Providing advice to address straight-forward cyber security risks by applying a variety of security capabilities, which may include using published guidance or standards, and validating the effectiveness of risk mitigation measures.
- Helping risk or service owners to make decisions that are well informed by providing clear security team
Note: An employee may be required to carry out other duties within the scope of the grade and within the limits of their skill, competence and training.
Due to the requirements of the role, the successful candidates will be required to work full-time (37 hours per week).
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