# Cyber Risk Lead (Legacy Coordination and Assurance)

**Company**: Government Digital Service
**Location**: Bristol, South West
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Salary**: GBP 58,775 - 74,915 per year
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This role will require the post holder to have SC clearance to start and may be required to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) once in post.

The Government Cyber Unit's mission is to protect public services from cyber threats and digital resilience failures.

As Cyber Risk Lead (Legacy Coordination and Assurance) you will guide the delivery of legacy and assurance activity, translating the requirements of the Government Cyber Action Plan (GCAP) and Firmer Foundations programme into meaningful actions that drive legacy technology interventions and remediation across government.

Responsibilities:

- acting as the primary interface between the Accountability and Assurance functions of GCU, and OCTO on legacy-facing and relevant technology modernisation work

- developing strong working relationships across GCU, OCTO, Government Departments, Mayoral Strategic Authorities and wider stakeholders

- translating GCAP outcomes, accountability priorities and assurance requirements into practical requirements for legacy remediation delivery

- developing government’s understanding of legacy risk by bringing together insights from assurance activities, legacy remediation programmes, public sector engagement and broader governance activities

- identifying lessons emerging from successful legacy remediation and legacy reduction activity across the public sector and embedding them in programme delivery

- identifying opportunities for legacy technology interventions to support GCAP outcomes

- identifying where legacy technology risks intersect with wider cyber, operational and organisational risks, ensuring these connections inform policy, governance and assurance activity

- working with the Technology Risk Group (TRG) to align legacy technology initiatives with strategic risk priorities, agreed risk appetite approaches and wider technology risk management objectives.

The post holder may be required to support out of hours on call rotas for responding to cyber and digital resilience incidents.

Person specification:

- demonstrate analytical and strategic thinking skills relating risk to corporate governance, organisational strategic direction and planning

- build strong relationships with stakeholders across teams, communicating tailored threat information to relevant stakeholders, organisations and stakeholder groups

- identify connections, dependencies and opportunities across multiple workstreams

- translate and communicate complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders championing protective security within the wider security function

- demonstrate experience of governance, assurance and risk management and work on major cross-government programmes

- demonstrate knowledge of cyber security, digital transformation, technology risk or organisational resilience helping organisations to derive and reason their security needs.

Benefits:

- flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hours

- a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%

- 25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day each year up to a maximum of 30 days

- an extra day off for the King’s birthday

- an in-year bonus scheme to recognise high performance

- career progression and coaching, including a training budget for personal development

- a focus on wellbeing with access to an employee assistance programme

- job satisfaction from making government services easier to use and more inclusive for people across the UK

- advances on pay, including for travel season tickets

- death in service benefits

- cycle to work scheme and facilities

- access to an employee discounts scheme

- 10 learning days per year

- volunteering opportunities (5 special leave days per year)

- access to a suite of learning activities through Civil Service learning

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## Skills

### Required
- analytical and strategic thinking
- governance
- assurance
- risk management
- cyber security
- digital transformation

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