Description
At DSIT we're all about improving people's lives by maximising the potential of science & technology.
We accelerate innovation, investment and productivity through world-class science, research and development.
We use technology for good by ensuring new and existing technologies are safely developed and deployed across the UK, with the benefits more widely shared.
We are driving forward a modern digital government which gives citizens a more satisfying experience and their time back.
We do all this to enable the Government's 5 national missions: kickstarting economic growth, making Britain a clean energy superpower, taking back our streets, breaking down barriers to opportunity and building an NHS fit for the future.
Above all, we focus on improving people's lives. Whether it's researching new treatments for disease, developing better batteries, reducing burdens through better public services, keeping children safe online, and much more, outcomes for citizens are at the heart of what we do.
The Government Cyber Unit's mission is to protect public services from cyber threats and digital resilience failures.
We are working to achieve a step change in our cyber and digital resilience across government, through delivery of the Government Cyber Action Plan, and working closely with departments and national technical authorities including the National Cyber Security Centre to deliver. This is a challenging time to be working in cyber security and digital resilience, but we have an incredible opportunity to make a difference to people's lives and promote national security by protecting the public services and national infrastructure they rely on.
The Cyber Profession Lead will lead work to manage and develop the profession, ensuring government has the skills it needs to deliver whilst ensuring a diverse and inclusive workforce. The successful applicant will lead a small team working to manage the profession, ensuring it is delivering across its objectives, via a virtual team in both the Government Cyber Unit and the Government Digital Service.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee the day to day running of the government cyber profession, its day to day activities including engagement, comms, and learning and development
- Lead a team managing the profession and a wider virtual team sitting across GCU and GDS to deliver core components of the profession, including pay and capability frameworks and talent programmes
- Work with the strategy oversight team to develop improvements to the profession ensuring it continues to develop and meet member needs and ensure measurement of impact of the profession
- Develop a strong set of cross-government networks, communities of practice and external partnerships working to promote the profession and roles in government cyber
- Lead work to support alignment between training, accreditation and real-world operational requirements
- Lead profession governance, ensuring the right forums exist to develop recommendations and take decisions in support of the Head and Deputy Head of Profession
As a line manager, you will be responsible for working with your members of staff to define their objectives, as well as managing their development and performance.
Essential Criteria:
- Experience leading complex strategy, policy or projects with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities and ambiguity
- Ability to manage a quality service, seeking to understand member needs, build capability and drive progress both as business as usual and continuous improvement
- Experience building effective working relationships and influencing across organisational boundaries, including those within government, the wider public sector and into academia and the private sector
- Ability to connect work across multiple teams, projects or organisations and identify where stronger join-up, challenge or intervention is needed.
- Strong strategic planning and organisational skills, with the ability to maintain oversight across multiple workstreams and turn insight into action
Desirable Criteria:
- Experience leading or working to deliver a profession in a complex environment
- An understanding of or experience of cyber security
- Experience of managing comms
Benefits:
- Alongside your salary of £71,420, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £20,690 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
- A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
- An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
- Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.