Interim Deputy Senior Security Advisor in Liverpool

On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Interim Deputy Senior Security Advisor Inside IR35 for a 3 months contract based REMOTELY with occasional travel to Swindon, Rhal or Cambridge
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.
UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers' money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields - from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.
As a Deputy Senior Security Advisor your main responsibilities will be to:

• Support delivery of strategic objective to collate security risk registers for key business areas and programmes
• Provide cultural leadership and manage a dedicated culture programme including chairing of the S&R established champion network, defining frameworks and benchmarks for programme success and engaging relevant governance and stakeholder groups.
• Proactively manage UKRI's principal strategic level security and resilience risk across Business Continuity and be a driving force for UKRI wide adoption of BIAs and BCPs, and Incident Management improvement mapping.
• Develop and implement approach to risk register capture in the protective security domain.
• Contribute to effective management of the UKRI Security & Resilience Community of Practice Essential:
• Extensive experience managing security and resilience risks across one or more security domains- business continuity, physical security, personnel security and travel risk management
• proven ability to influence stakeholders, develop a positive security culture and provide risk-based advice to senior leaders
• Experience in governance, assurance, incident management and organisational resilience, with the ability to balance security requirements against operational delivery while promoting continuous improvement and organisational learning.
• Experience in public sector or arms length body

Desirable:

Protective security and cyber security Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas. Disability Confident As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance. In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following 'this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different'.