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Security Education and Awareness Team Lead

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Dyddiad hysbysebu: 19 Mehefin 2025
Cyflog: £55,557 i £66,058 bob blwyddyn
Oriau: Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau: 10 Gorffennaf 2025
Lleoliad: Blackpool
Cwmni: Government Recruitment Service
Math o swydd: Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd: 411221/1

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This is a critical and high-profile role protecting the UK’s biggest public service department from organised and developing threats to its people, data and services. The successful candidate will lead a team that oversees the creation and development of security education and awareness for the Department and its partners.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) holds data on the majority of citizens in the UK and provides essential services to the most vulnerable in society. As the UK’s biggest public service department, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

The security of citizens’ data is of paramount importance to allow DWP to effectively provide its primary objective of public service provision in a safe and secure manner.

DWP’s Security education and awareness promotes positive security behaviours to protect DWP, its infrastructure and its staff from physical, personnel and cyber threats.

The Security Education and Awareness Team sits within Security & Data Protection, as part of the Security Policy and Central Services (SPCS) function.

Security Education & Awareness (SEA) is insight led and responsive to risk and threats, and through a multi-disciplinary approach comprising of campaigns, e-learning, other behaviour change products and interventions, and the advice services of the portal, chatbot and Security Advice Centre.

Working with another G7, you will lead the development and maintenance of security education and awareness to promote positive security behaviours across DWP and to our business partners.

Responsibilities

  • Manage activity to deliver and assure the SEA programme across DWP and ensure that the overall work programme is delivered to appropriate professional standards, within budget and to timescales.
  • Manage the governance of the SEA programme through representation at Governance boards and regular reporting to Senior Managers. 
  • Ensure appropriate collaboration with the cross-Government Security Education and Awareness Centre (SEAC) to ensure DWP SEA utilises and shares best practice and to ensure value for money.
  • Responsible for the implementation of the SEA Strategy through alignment of strategic and tactical activities, embracing innovation opportunities.
  • Collaborate with and influence senior managers and other stakeholders across DWP business areas to gain buy in for SEA activities across DWP.
  • Be seen as a leader by your team applying a consistent vision, energy and drive that motivates the team to meet business objectives and support the team to focus on personal development and learning to support internal capability.
  • Promote an environment of continuous improvement across the team, where learning from feedback, security risks, events, incidents, investigations and trends becomes integral to business design and processes.
  • Ensure the SEA programme continues to develop an evaluation framework that measures the effectiveness of the programme’s behaviour change activities.
  • Development of a security culture plan for DWP.

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