Overview

The role requires regular travel to London on a weekly basis. If you are not based in London, you will still be expected to travel to London for regular business meetings. The Director Cyber Defence and Risk is the Ministry of Defence lead for cyber security, providing leadership across Defence to ensure threats are understood and explicit cyber and information security risks are identified and translated into appropriate mitigations. Coheres cyber security and resilience across the Whole of Defence and with the Defence industry. Leads on wider Strategic IT risk processes.Responsibilities

To manage, oversee, monitor and report on overall Cyber Security risk including the Defence Board level risk and lead on the creation of appropriate response plans.Drive cyber security transformation across Defence including partnership working with the new Defensive Cyber and EM Force.Provide cyber, information, crypt key security and digital resilience policy direction across Defence and monitor compliance including delivery of specialist assurance services.Define enterprise and solution cyber security architecture and act as the crypt key design authority.Ensure all of Defence is cyber security aware and educated and set functional skills standards.Define Defence wide cyber resilience strategy and act as Portfolio owner for the defensive cyber security and crypt key programme portfolio.Provide expert guidance and assurance to Defence equipment programmes to ensure they are secure and resilient by design and assure compliance against Defence policies.Ensure MOD cyber security response is integrated with, and supportive of, other cyber domain activity in Defence and government.Lead implementation of Cyber Resilience strategy.Propose and set relevant cyber security policies and architecture standards.Own the defence end to end cyber risk process and assure the effectiveness of mitigations working across Defence.Create effective interventions when the risk profile exceeds tolerance and escalate.Assure capability programmes against relevant security and resilience standards to ensure mitigating threat and risk and being secure and resilient by design.Set the behavioural and cyber awareness expectations for Defence.Set the professional standards for cyber skills.Qualifications/Application documents

A CV (no more than 2 pages) setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years.A Personal Statement (no more than 2 pages) explaining how your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role.Both documents are weighted equally in their scoring.Failure to submit both documents will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application; however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.External candidates who join the MOD and are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.For further information about the role and full application process, please refer to the candidate pack attached below. If you wish to receive any material in a different format for accessibility, please contact People-CivHR-SCSCandidateSupport@mod.gov.uk.Charles Forte will be running a Townhall via MS Teams on Friday 12 September at 09:30 - 10:15 to provide an overview of the role and welcome any questions you may have. Candidates can access the meeting by clicking here. If preferred candidates may use their initials instead of their full name to maintain confidentiality regarding their interest in the role. Please note this is not part of the formal assessment process. If you have any issues accessing the session, please contact: People-CivHR-SCSCandidateSupport@mod.gov.uk.Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.SecuritySuccessful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting. See our vetting charter. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.Essential/Desirable

A leader with a track record of successful and inclusive team management.Prior experience of influencing corporate Board-level stakeholders. As the Departmental CISO, the post holder will brief members of the Defence Board on cyber and information security issues.Significant change management experience in an IT security and information risk management environment and a successful track record of leading large technology transformation and delivery.Taking a strategic perspective - keeping overall objectives and strategies in mind and not being unduly preoccupied by matters of detail.Decision making - making decisions at the appropriate time, considering the needs of the situation, priorities, constraints, known risks, and the availability of necessary information and resources.Cross-functional / inter-disciplinary awareness - understanding the needs, objectives, and constraints of those in other Defence professions.Resilience, including the ability to take a robust stance under pressure where necessary and provide clear and unambiguous advice when called upon.Benefits

Salary of £149,000, with MOD contribution of £43,165 towards Civil Service Pension scheme.Learning and development tailored to your roleFlexible working optionsCulture encouraging inclusion and diversityCivil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%Travel and assignment

The role requires regular travel to London on a weekly basis. If you are not based in London, you will still be expected to travel to London for regular business meetings. The role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years.

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