Associate Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus Assessor (IASME-licensed, UK, Remote)

Intelance is a UK-based consulting firm and a newly appointed IASME Certification Body across Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus, and IASME Cyber Assurance. We are building a selective associate panel to support a growing book of Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus engagements. This is not an employment role. It is a long-term associate relationship for experienced assessors who want steady, well-run work, named inclusion on our panel, and a professional home that treats assurance delivery as a craft.

Tasks

• Conduct Cyber Essentials self-assessment reviews against the current IASME question set and issue certification decisions within agreed service levels.
• Deliver Cyber Essentials Plus technical audits, including vulnerability scanning, authenticated scans, sample device testing, multi-factor authentication validation, and malware protection checks.
• Write clear, defensible assessment reports and certification recommendations.
• Guide client technical contacts through remediation where gaps are identified, without drifting into paid consultancy during the certification window.
• Maintain evidence and audit trails to IASME Certification Body standards.
• Participate in internal calibration sessions to keep assessment quality consistent across the panel.
• Where capacity and interest align, support adjacent work across IASME Cyber Assurance Level 1 and Level 2 and ISO 27001 readiness.

Requirements

• Current or recently held IASME assessor licence for Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, or equivalent hands-on delivery experience with a willingness to be licensed under Intelance.
• Minimum three years delivering Cyber Essentials Plus technical audits in the UK market.
• Strong working knowledge of the five Cyber Essentials controls, the current question set, and common interpretation edge cases.
• Practical experience with vulnerability scanning tooling used for Cyber Essentials Plus.
• Confident engaging directly with client IT and security leads, including SME owners and enterprise CISO teams.
• Based in the UK, with the right to work in the UK.
• Able to operate outside IR35 through a limited company, or willing to engage on a compliant basis.
• Willing to be listed publicly as an Associate Assessor of Intelance, including on LinkedIn, while on the panel.
• Excellent written English. Reports must be client-ready without heavy editing.

Desirable:

• ISO 27001 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor certification.
• Experience with IASME Cyber Assurance, NIST CSF, or SOC 2 readiness.
• Sector depth in financial services, healthcare, SaaS, or private equity-backed mid-market.

Benefits

• Competitive day rate and per-certification fee structure, paid on 14-day terms.
• Right of first refusal on engagements matched to your sector and availability.
• Named inclusion on the Intelance Cyber Assurance panel page and proposal credentials.
• Co-branded continuing professional development sessions and quarterly calibration workshops.
• Referral fee of up to 10 percent of net first-year fees for associate originated client work.
• Direct access to the Intelance delivery leadership. No sub-sub-contracting. No layers.
• Clean tooling, templates, and quality frameworks so you spend time assessing, not formatting.

We are deliberately selective. We would rather run a small, sharp panel than a long list of names we cannot mobilise. If you are a serious assessor who takes pride in defensible, well-written certification work, we want to speak with you.

Process: short application, 30-minute assessment, 30-minute screen with our Cyber Assurance lead, a technical scenario walkthrough, two references, and a signed Associate Panel Agreement. From application to panel membership in under three weeks for the right candidates.

Apply with your CV, your current IASME licence status, and a one-paragraph note on the most complex Cyber Essentials Plus audit you have delivered and how you handled it.