About the job

Job summary

As the department’s Senior Security and Counter Fraud Advisor, you will be at the heart of keeping the MoJ’s people safe and secure. We are looking for someone who is confident at briefing Ministers and senior leaders, customer focused and can embed a security and counter fraud ethos across MoJ and someone who is delivery focused and understands physical and personnel security and counter fraud challenges in a complex environment coupled with excellent leadership skills to build expert and inclusive teams.

In this role, you will be leading on personnel and physical security for MoJ, ensuring policy compliance, assurance and awareness for our front-line services. You will also be leading on the MoJ’s counter fraud work, in developing and implementing initiatives, designing, implementing and providing high quality counter fraud services and also in error reduction in the MoJ.

We are looking for someone who can deliver in these areas, demonstrate strong leadership to embed it across our organisation and provide high quality advice to ensure that senior stakeholders understand the importance of this work.

You will be part of the senior leadership team for the Security and Information Group, working to deliver our vision of making security, information and counter fraud everyone’s responsibility, and that it is embedded into the culture of the MoJ. We aim to work with teams and upskill them on how to protect themselves, their customers and their data.

This is a Nationally based role

Job description

For full details about the Role, Key Responsibilities and Person Specification, please download and review the Candidate Information pack

Person specification

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice and assurance to the Permanent Secretary, Ministers, Executive Board, Audit and Risk Committee and senior leaders on departmental personnel security, physical security and counter-fraud issues.
• Provide a customer-focused service on personnel and physical security and counter fraud issues across the entire MoJ, ensuring a security and counter-fraud culture is embedded across the department.
• Lead a diverse team of 43 experts, creating an inclusive environment with a clear vision and purpose where people feel like they belong and can thrive.
• Lead teams of personnel, physical and counter fraud, modelling MoJ and Civil Service values to foster and support the development of the security and counter-fraud professions, championing development, talent and career management.
• Develop and deliver operational policies, guidance and training to MoJ people, staff, suppliers, and partners so that everyone in MoJ knows and can discharge their personnel and physical security and counter-fraud duties effectively.
• Develop innovative ways to tackle security threats by building MoJ capability in areas such as insider threat, unauthorised disclosures, handling secret and top-secret information.
• Ensure adherence to the HMG minimum physical and personnel security standards, legislative requirements, the Protect Duty, and assurance requirements such as the Department Security Health Check. Use intelligence and information from those processes to identify risks, areas for improvement and achievement of government security standards.
• Put the right controls in place to prevent personnel and physical incidents from happening and where they do happen, being in a position to respond well and recover quickly.
• Lead the MoJ’s engagement with the Cabinet Office Government Security Group, and collaborate with the National Technical Authorities, such as the National Cyber Security Centre, National Protective Security Authority and National Authority for Counter Eavesdropping, other government departments and external partners, to continuously evaluate and improve security services.
• Act as an intelligent customer, requesting and monitoring services from the Protective Security Centre and Government Security Centres. Supporting the Government Chief Security Officer to ensure the security requirements of MoJ are being met.
• Develop proactive measures to detect suspicious activity and ensuring the MoJ is compliant with the government counter fraud standards and the requirements within the Public Sector Fraud Agency’s mandate.
• Through leadership of the Portfolio Office, manage the Security and Information Group’s performance reporting, risk and issues management, workforce planning, corporate finance, and governance across the directorate to ensure best practice is in place.

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Additional Information

Please view our candidate information pack for full details about the role, key responsibilities person specification, and the criteria you will be assessed against throughout the recruitment process.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, and feel that you meet the criteria, we would welcome your application

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,000, Ministry of Justice contributes £20,925 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability and Experience.For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.

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

Security

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.