Embedded Security Education & Awareness Programme Consultant

We are seeking a consultant to manage and evolve our clients Security Education & Awareness programme. The programme protects their people, research, and intellectual property by driving security-conscious behaviour across the organisation through training, communications, and engagement. A critical success factor is understanding the clients unique research culture: their training and communications must be engaging, collaborative, and lead with "the why" — explaining the reasons behind our security controls without feeling bureaucratic, overly alarmist, or punitive.

Core Responsibilities

• Mandatory Security Training: Own the annual training cycle end-to-end: coordinate with our e-learning production vendor to refresh video content and scenarios each year, manage rollout and completion tracking, build leadership dashboards, and escalate.
• Conference & Travel Security: Produce location-specific security briefings and short-form audio content for major conferences, drawing on threat intelligence inputs and distributing through our events coordination channels.
• New Hire Security Onboarding: Deliver monthly live onboarding sessions, create interactive exercises and follow-up assessments, maintain on-demand recordings, and manage automated follow-up communications.
• Threat Briefings: Coordinate quarterly security briefings for high-profile researchers and secure recurring slots at leadership forums to deliver concise threat updates.
• Internal Security Portal: Maintain and expand the clients security resource hub with a library of bite-sized training content, threat updates, and best-practice guidance tailored to AI research workflows.
• Ongoing Communications & Engagement: Produce regular security awareness content across internal channels — newsletters, chat posts, short-form video — to keep security top-of-mind between formal training cycles.

Essential:

• Proven track record managing security education and awareness programmes at scale in a technology or research organisation.
• Strong content creation skills across formats: video, e-learning, written communications, infographics, and audio.
• Broad corporate security expertise spanning insider risk, IP protection, travel and personal security, and event security — with the ability to distil complex threats into clear, actionable guidance for non-security audiences.
• Credibility and gravitas to present confidently at all levels of the organisation, from new joiners to senior leadership and high‑profile researchers.
• Comfortable operating as the sole owner of the programme — driving strategy, planning, and delivery autonomously while collaborating with the wider security team for subject‑matter input and stakeholder support.
• Comfort working with senior leadership, legal, communications, and people teams as key stakeholders.
• An automation mindset - experience building workflows, dashboards, and pipelines to reduce manual overhead.
• Willingness and ability to build an appreciation for the clients unique research culture — tailoring training and communications to lead with "the why".

Desirable:

• Experience in AI, machine learning, or frontier technology environments.
• Background in threat intelligence, travel security, or nation‑state threat awareness.
• Experience building security champion or ambassador programmes.
• Relevant professional certifications (SSAP, CISSP, or equivalent).