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Are you ready to work in one of the most interesting cyber security environments and share your experience to support national security?
Cyber security plays an integral role in protecting the UK against external and internal threats, acting as a deterrence to ensure that our Armed Forces have the strong cyber defences they need.
The Cyber Defence and Risk (CyDR) team is at the forefront of Cyber Security and Information Technology within Defence and is responsible for enabling Defence through the provision of specialist assurance and cyber security services across UK Defence, including industry partners, other Government Departments and our international allies.
CyDR sits within the Defence Digital team who provide digital and technology services to our Armed Forces. Defence Digital operates at scale, with an annual budget in excess of £2Bn and a diverse team of 2,500 colleagues, it aims to make our Armed Forces some of the most technologically advanced in the world.
With a fantastic growing team of military and civilian staff operating across the UK, it is a great time to be a cyber security professional in the Ministry of Defence.
If you can see yourself contributing to the world of CyDR the next chapter of your career may be with us!
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week
Job description
The Joint Information Assurance Coordinator position sits within the Joint Information Assurance Coordination Cell (JIACC), in the Cyber Investigations team, a small, highly specialised team, part of the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) directorate. We identify and assess cyber vulnerabilities and their associated risks across Defence’s complex and challenging environments and identify possible gaps and issues to inform key defence programmes, who then undertake mitigation activities to help to reduce risks.
The Joint Information Assurance Coordinator role will be responsible for assessing tasking requests and prioritising and allocating to the IA Technical Security Teams (TST).
This position will act as a conduit to the front door of Cyber Investigations, providing a consistent point of contact between customers and the IA units and the wider Cyber Investigations team. The primary responsibility will be the day-to-day task management, assessing suitability and availability of resources and ensuring the STREAM database is up to date with the relevant reports.
The role will also support tracking the resolution of vulnerabilities found on MOD’s Communication and Information Systems (CIS), discovered during TST tests, together with the tracking of other IA functions, including Pen Testing, Vulnerability Assessment, Compliance Checks, Cyber Vulnerability Investigations (CVI’s) and more.
There will also be opportunities for this role to participate and help in the wider Cyber Investigations goals.
We will offer excellent learning and development opportunities tailored to your role and beyond. Whilst in post, you’ll be able to gain industry recognised qualifications and we’ll support you throughout the process.
You’ll also be able to take advantage of our excellent benefits package, including flexible working, generous leave allowance, great discount services and a market-leading Civil Service pension.
The Cyber Investigations team has exciting plans for growth, so now is a great time to join us and be part of our journey!
Person specification
Responsibilities are likely to include but not restricted to:
- Coordination of core IA tasks by managing the effective planning and control of all tests.
- Initiate technical inspection of task requests, including pre-task technical information.
- Recommendation of acceptance or rejection of tasking, based on suitability and/or availability of resources, for onward transmission.
- Provide support to the single point of contact between the IA Units, Permanent Joint Headquarters and CyDR.
- Ensure all databases are correctly maintained and always updated to ensure accuracy.
- Upload reports and products onto SharePoint and STREAM, including setting permissions for each document.
- Record and monitor progress of outstanding issues on action plans and liaise with sites to ensure timely return of action plans.
- Represent the Information Assurance Co-Ordinators at relevant team meetings.
- Provide statistical information from the database for management meetings and information to other departments
- Ensure the TST Service Matrix is up to date.
- Dissemination of task summaries to support tracking, resolution and the overarching cyber risk landscape.
- Maintain history logs and update SharePoint with current emails and progress.
- Undertake training requirements in accordance with Category Training Matrix.
- Help the wider Cyber Investigation team with basic administration such as but not limited to, booking visitors onto site, arrange and set up meetings, and processing data.
We are committed to encouraging and enabling our staff to develop in and above their role and we will support you in undertaking further learning and development opportunities, within your designated field and beyond. Wherever possible, we will provide upskill learning options and further training to support your continuous professional development.
If you have the following knowledge, skills and experience, we would love to hear from you!
We would expect to see some previous experience working in data input and analysis and/or information management and ideally you’ll have the following skills:
- Adept at building strong working relationships, with proven experience in demonstrating first class interpersonal skills within a professional environment.
- Excellent communication skills, including oral presentation and clear and accurate written briefing to senior leaders, often under time pressure.
- Stakeholder management skills, including the ability to work across boundaries to deal with varying stakeholder interests.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills, with a proven ability in prioritising work, allocating resources effectively.
- Ability to work independently using own initiative.
- Computer literate and experience of using MS Office apps such as Excel, Word, Access.
- Eagerness to learn and continue your professional development.
Dependent on the business need, there may be a requirement to travel to meetings within the UK (or potentially occasional overseas visits).
This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station, which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this). If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Our expectation is that the successful candidate will be required to be in the office 2-3 days a week, due to access requirements to certain IT systems which are inaccessible remotely.
This post is open to sole UK nationals only.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Family Friendly – Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave.
- A wide range of discounts – Defence Discount Service, Civil Service societies for Sports and Leisure, Healthcare, Insurance, Motoring, company discounts with Virgin, Vodafone, and Microsoft Office.
- 5 days per year Learning & Development
- In year rewards and ‘thank you’ schemes.
- Flexible working.
- Generous leave allocations.
- Please see Benefits Leaflet for more detail
Equality and Diversity
Our people are at the heart of everything we do at Defence Digital. It’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of both our audience and the wider society in the UK, so we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities. We also recognise the importance of a good work life balance, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including part-time and job shares for all our roles. Please let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process if this is something you want to explore.
Defence Digital operates an organisation model in which every individual belongs to a Government Profession. The successful applicant will be posted into one of the defined Government Professions on Standard Terms of Reference for the grade. Defence Digital reserves the right to move individuals between roles, within their allocated profession, to meet the needs of the business and in support of agile resourcing.
Within Defence Digital each profession is led by a Professional Head of Community who will lead professional development and support the Continuous Professional Development path for their group.
Defence Digital is currently going through a Transformation Programme which aims to ensure we have the right workforce, with the right skills, to deliver the MOD's Digital Strategy. As the programme progresses, Defence Digital staff may be required to undergo an assessment to understand and develop their upskilling needs to support the delivery of this strategy. This post may be impacted by Transformation.
The post does not offer relocation expenses.
External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment by 31st December 2022. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.
Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
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Selection process details
To apply please complete the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard. You will be assessed against your relevant, skills, knowledge and experience which demonstrates the essential criteria listed within this advert.
All applicants will also need to provide a personal statement (max. 1250 words) and it is essential that this includes evidence of the following essential criteria. Each one will be scored 1-7 and make up part of your overall score to assess your suitability to be invited to interview:
1. Describe your experience of building strong working relationships and how they were established and maintained.
2. Describe your experience or knowledge of managing data, in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders.
3. Describe your experience of prioritising tasks or actions and provide a working example.
4. Describe your experience or knowledge of presenting analysis findings/conclusions to senior management/stakeholders.
Interviews
We’ll assess you against these behaviours & experience during the interview process:
Behaviours
- Leadership
- Changing & Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
Experience
- You will be asked questions regarding your experience related to this role.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.
The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk
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