Security Training and Awareness Lead in Portsmouth

Location: Portsmouth/Radway Green/Washington/Glascoed/Hillend. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £50,000 Dependent on skills and experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Co-ordinate, manage and ensure that the annual security training programme is delivered, developing the structure to ensure sustained long-term delivery.
• Develop and deliver security training material to a range of communities across business functions and create a metric framework to measure effectiveness of the awareness and training programme.
• Conduct training needs analysis and offer solutions to satisfy business requirements in the most efficient and effective way.
• Drive security best practice through knowledge sharing to ensure consistency within the business area and compliance with security policies and practices.
• Build & maintain effective relationships and coordination with key local functions and business representatives.
• Support employees in developing knowledge, experience and understanding of good security behaviour to support company outputs and positively influence security culture.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and key point of contact for all internal security awareness initiatives within Maritime & Land.
• Measure training effectiveness through metrics reporting and user feedback; use insights to improve content.

Your Skills And Experiences

• The job holder is expected to have good business acumen within the security function and relevant business group.
• Holds an in depth understanding of corporate communications and training.
• Good knowledge of government and industry standard security policy, standards and best practice guidance.
• Willingness to obtain a Security qualification where relevant such as Security Institute/Defence Industry Security Association (DISA) or already possesses.
• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Journalism, a security discipline or ample experience working in a corporate communications, training or security environment.

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Security Operations Team

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Security Training and Awareness Lead to design, implement and manage a robust security awareness and training program within the Maritime & Land Defence Solutions business of BAE Systems. You will manage the security awareness and security training programme, building a strong security culture, in order to protect BAE Systems, its people, infrastructure, information and assets, as well as the interests of its shareholders and customers, and to fulfil regulatory and legal obligations.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date

24th February 2026. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.