House of Commons

Contents

• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

City of Westminster, London (region), SW1A 0AA

About the job

Job summary

The post holder will report to the Deputy Director of Members’ Security and Risk, managing a team which collects information relating to MP’s security from across a wide range of sources (including online, open sources), and conducting bespoke risk assessment activity for MPs jointly with the Police.

The post holder will also be responsible for driving forward the team’s strategic change priorities, manage its crucial relationships with government, the Police and both Houses of Parliament.

Job description

Some of the responsibilities for this role include: 

• Managing and leading SIRAS, and developing the staff within; providing direction and support to SIRAS staff to ensure that they are motivated and engaged.
• Managing relationships with a wide range of internal and external partners (in particular the Police and Home Office) to ensure all relevant information pertaining to MP and wider Parliamentary security is gathered, handled, stored and shared according to relevant processes.
• Working collaboratively with the Metropolitan Police’s Parliamentary Liaison and Investigative Team (PLaIT) to ensure joint risk assessment activity makes best use of each organisation’s skills, experience and knowledge.
• Support the development of new capabilities and initiatives to improve the security of MPs.
• Oversee SIRAS’ budget, performance reporting, corporate risk and contract management activity, and drive forward the team’s strategic change portfolio, setting goals, deadlines and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.

Person specification

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate: 

• Experience of leading and managing teams in a security-related discipline, allied with comprehensive knowledge of intelligence assessment. Experience of managing triage, analysis and/or assessment teams highly beneficial.
• Sound judgement, decision-making and risk assessment skills. Experience in making risk-based decisions, ensuring the team’s risk assessments are well-informed, robust and appropriate risk mitigation activities are considered. Awareness of political, legal and reputational risk considerations.
• Excellent relationship and partnership building skills. Experience of multi-agency or cross-departmental collaboration on security matters, especially with Police or government. Experience of influencing and persuading senior stakeholders to deliver against strategic outcomes, and of forging cross-organisational consensus on challenging topics.
• Leadership and people management. Experience of setting realistic objectives, monitoring performance, giving feedback and supporting development. Ability to motivate, lead and develop a team, championing the values of equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Experience of creating or overseeing the creation of intelligence assessments, delivering security advice to senior stakeholders, and ensuring the team’s written outputs are informative, compliant and reflect the organisation’s wider position.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £68,900, House of Commons contributes £19,960 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including: 

• 30 days’ annual leave (increasing to 35 days after first full leave year). 
• Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. 
• Access to training and development. 
• Flexible working. 
• Interest free season ticket loan and bicycle loan.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : recruitment@parliament.uk
• Email : recruitment@parliament.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@parliament.uk