About the job

Job summary

This position is based Nationally

Job description

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Overview of the job    

This role sits in the Security Risk Unit (SRU) in Security, Order and Counter-Terrorism (SOCT).

The Unit’s objectives are to ensure HMPPS is robustly managing its live and emerging security risks, developing a learning culture and ensuring those working in operational settings are knowledgeable and up-skilled to deliver effective security.

The Control Strategy is a vehicle through which the organisation can identify and prioritise its security risks and monitor the identified controls that aim to mitigate these risks.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting the design and implementation of the Control Strategy within HMPPS.

This is a national post, regular attendance to meetings in London and occasional travel across the HMPPS estate will be required.

The job holder will report to the Control Strategy Lead (Manager) and there is the potential to hold responsibility for managing a small team of staff.

Summary    

The post holder will support the effective assessment and prioritisation of HMPPS security risks across a range of threat areas.

The post holder will identify new and developing controls from across the organisation and across the government that address priority risks.

The post holder will monitor and evaluate controls and assist with the regular publishing of the Control Strategy highlighting their progress to senior leaders across HMPPS and MoJ.

The post holder will work with control owners across the organisation to raise awareness and accountability of the identified controls and their management and mitigation of security risks.

The post holder will work to evaluate the extent to which controls are mitigating priority risks, as well as support the assessment of any displacement of the risk.

The post holder will develop and maintain stakeholder relationships with internal and external partners as a means of identifying control owners and levering their support to progress the mitigation of priority risks.

Responsibilities, Activities & Duties    

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

•    Contribute to the design and implementation of the HMPPS Control Strategy.
•    Identify security threats across prison and probation and how those threats manifest as risks.
•    Contribute to the development of the Local Control Strategy, to support individual establishments identify and prioritise their risks.
•    Contribute to the identification and assessment of security risks in Probation and Youth Custody Service.
•    Contribute to the development of the framework for the Local Control Strategy and Probation Control Strategy.
•    Collaborate with internal and external partners, in particular the National Intelligence Unit and Safety, to assess likelihood of identified threats manifesting.
•    Identify how vulnerable the organisation is to threats manifesting themselves across HMPPS.
•    Effectively organise and participate in multiple working groups to assure the accuracy of risk prioritisation.
•    Support the identification of effective controls to increase the organisational resilience to the priority risks.
•    Contribute to Control Strategy Coordination Board and Control Engagement Groups that feed into Control identification and management.
•    Engage and partner with stakeholders across to the organisation and across government, obtaining their endorsement of the product and cooperation as control owners.
•    Continuously review, enhance and embed the portfolio of risks and horizon scan for future control measures. Review and seek feedback from the necessary stakeholders to ensure work meets operational requirements and remains effective.
•    Work with control owners and the Security Assessment and Evaluation Committee to develop a framework for the evaluation of Controls.
•    Create briefings notes to building awareness to the SOCT SMT and Executive Management Committee, on the priority risks and the identified controls to ensure continuing development of resilience across HMPPS. These updates can inform investment decisions across the organisation.
•    Promote effective risk identification, use the Risk Resilience Methodology as a means of identifying and assessing new risks which could impact security across HMPPS and promote the importance of the Control Strategy findings in wider HMPPS delivery.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £33,104, HM Prison & Probation Service contributes £8,971 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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Selection process details

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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.