Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager in Glasgow

Salary: £46,062 (Plus capability allowance of up to £11,338 pending assessment)

Location: Cardiff | Croydon | Glasgow | Liverpool | Manchester | Sheffield (hybrid with 60% office attendance)

Advert Close: Monday 2nd February :55pm

Home Office Cyber Security at the Home Office plays a vital role in protecting one of the UK’s largest government departments and its nationally critical digital infrastructure.

As Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager, you will identify, understand and mitigate cyber-related risks. You will help to evaluate the security risks to information and processes in our critical national Infrastructure and business critical systems. You will use your expertise and draw on a range of evidence to provide advice to stakeholders across the organisation to ensure well-informed risk-based decision making. You will also be responsible for conducting external audits against Home Office suppliers and internally against other business areas.

The Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager plans and implements organisation-wide processes and procedures for the management of risk. They monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of the risk management processes across the organisation and make recommendations for continuous improvement.

As a Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager, your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Working within established security and risk governance frameworks, supporting and conducting risk management activities such as system and supplier risk assessments, reviewing security schedules, and performing supply chain audits. Communicating risk assessment outcomes clearly to stakeholders to enable effective decision-making.
• Contributing to the development and maintenance of cyber security policies, standards, and processes, ensuring alignment with regulations and organisational requirements. Providing advice on cyber security risks by applying recognised guidance and validating mitigation measures.
• Assisting risk and service owners in making informed decisions through clear security advice and reporting.
• Building functional relationships across departments, government bodies, and third-party stakeholders. Collaborating with commercial teams to embed cyber security requirements throughout the procurement lifecycle.
• Supporting GovAssure compliance by aligning risk management processes with the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) and government assurance standards. Coordinating and contributing to GovAssure assessments, including evidence collection, gap analysis, and remediation planning to maintain compliance with mandated security requirements.

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for Cyber Security with the following skills or experience in:

• Reviewing and performing risk assessments, developing risk treatment plans and communicating those risks to senior risk owners.
• Identifying typical risk indicators and explaining prevention measures.
• Adopting a structured approach to executing and documenting audits, following agreed standards and processes.
• Maintaining integrity of records to support and satisfy audit trails.
• Be able to assist business areas with queries pertaining to their cyber security requirements in line with wider organisational policy.
• Communicating technical requirements effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits include:

• A civil service pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• The ability to potentially adopt flexible working options that suit your work/life balance, plus the opportunity in future to take a career break.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
• Eight days public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
• 26 weeks maternity, adoption or shared parental leave at full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks’ unpaid, after qualifying service.
• Maternity and adoption support leave (also known as paternity leave) of two weeks full pay, after qualifying service.
• Paid leave for fostering approval processes, support when a child is substantively placed with you plus a foster to adopt policy.
• Support for guardians and kinship carers.
• Corporate membership of ‘Employers for Carers’ providing additional information and advice for carers, plus a ‘Carer’s Passport’ to discuss workplace needs and underpin supportive conversations.
• Time off to deal with emergencies and certain other unplanned special circumstances.

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