Senior Security Culture Advisor
| Posting date: | 05 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £56,180 to £66,497 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2025 |
| Location: | Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA |
| Company: | House of Commons |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6247_1749121278 |
Summary
UK Parliament
Working at the UK Parliament offers a unique and rewarding career at the heart of the UK's democratic system.
With a wide range of roles available, our impartial colleagues enable the day to day running of the House of Commons, House of Lords and Joint Departments. Together, we make Parliament happen. More information on what it's like to work at the House of Commons can be found here: Be at the heart of the House of Commons - UK Parliament
Staff Benefits
In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including:
- 30 days' annual leave (increasing to 35 days after first full leave year).
- Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
- Access to training and development.
- Flexible working.
- Interest free season ticket loan and bicycle loan.
Introduction
PSD sets security strategy provides expert advice and delivers an operational service. The PSD Security Culture & Engagement Team is responsible for developing an effective security culture within Parliament and delivering security engagement activities to raise awareness and improve security behaviours.
The Role
The Senior Security Culture Advisor role is responsible for the development of an effective security culture within Parliament.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an energetic individual to shape Parliament's security culture, raising levels of security knowledge, awareness, and compliance across the parliamentary community, and meeting the needs of a wide ranging and highly diverse audience.
The role will require an individual with well-developed stakeholder engagement skills, ideally with experience of building effective security cultures in complex organisations. Reporting to the Head of Security Culture & Engagement, the post holder will be a self-starter, able to identify the work required to meet our goals and taking responsibility for delivering this in the context of a wider security engagement team.
Some of the responsibilities for this role include:
- Manage and develop the Security Culture work in Parliament, responsible for coordinating all aspects of Security Culture activity across the parliamentary community
- Design, develop and implement an approach to security culture that ensures all members of the parliamentary community understand security policy
- Measure impact of security engagement activity to ensure the wider team objectives of improving security culture are met
- Use analytical data to identify trends and challenges, interpreting this to identify areas and audiences that require additional security advice and support.
Skills and Experience
To be successful in this role you will demonstrate:
- Experience of coordinating the delivery and implementation of security culture behaviour campaigns across a complex organisation.
- Evidence of project management with experience of implementing new security strategies and / or security culture change programmes.
- Experience of working with and supporting people and teams to deliver high quality output while promoting and maintaining the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Excellent relationship and partnership building skills, with experience of with an in depth understanding of the personnel, physical or cyber security space.
- Prior experience of working with national security stakeholders to translate advice from specialist organisations into actionable messaging for diverse audiences.
Next Steps and Additional Information
CV & Supporting Statement - If you would like to apply for this role, please submit your CV and covering letter with a 750-word limit.
More information on the application process can be found here: Application process - UK Parliament
More information on the role and the full criteria can be found in the Job Description.
Please note that most job offers will be made at the minimum of the salary range, other than in exceptional circumstances.
Please ensure that you anonymise your application by removing any identifiable factors from your CV or Supporting Statement.
We may close the vacancy prior to the closing date stated due to a high volume of applications.
Contact Details
If you have any further questions or have an informal chat with the line manager, please email for this to be organised.
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