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Chief Security Officer Jobs in Leeds, England, United Kingdom at Government Property Agency
Title: Chief Security Officer
Company: Government Property Agency
Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom
LocationBirmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham
About The JobJob summaryThe GPA is committed to representing the communities we serve by making Diversity, Equality and Inclusion part of everything we do.
To ensure that we are always recruiting and retaining a diverse mix of talent, we are particularly inviting applications from candidates who are disabled, ethnically or gender diverse, and people who identify as being part of the LGBTQ+ community.
The Government Property Agency is changing the way the Civil Service works and is at the forefront of Government’s transformation agenda; reshaping the relationship civil servants have with their place of work. The Agency is central to the delivery of key Government policies including moving 22,000 Civil Service roles out of London by 2030 and tackling climate change by contributing to the Net Zero agenda. To do this we are delivering a major change programme across the UK and consolidating our portfolio in order to save £1.4 Bn over 10 years.
Beyond the bricks and mortar, the GPA is about providing great workplaces for our people. Through programmes like Hubs, Whitehall Campus and Smart Working you will be in the vanguard of creating model working environments and promoting flexible working practices.
This is an ambitious and exciting task, for which we need innovative people, with strong commercial acumen, who are passionate about visualising and implementing customer needs. Launched as an Executive Agency of the Cabinet Office in 2018, we’re a relatively new department and we are growing fast so we also need people who thrive in ambiguity, can adapt quickly to change and are comfortable stepping outside of their remit to drive outcomes.
Job DescriptionTo lead the holistic security function across the GPA and the central government estate, delivering continuous improvement and minimising risk.
You will lead the GPA security function working across the organisation, its commercial partners and wider government. You will understand the key security, statutory, commercial and financial issues, and use this information to assess and manage the risks to our client departments and to our own internal security posture.
You will partner and work closely with and advise senior colleagues in GPA’s major projects, building services, technology,HR and other teams to ensure that security standards are maintained and that the security aspects of GPA’s major projects and property management role are enabled. A vital part of the role will be leading on security risk management and assurance to protect our people, information and assets. This includes all aspects of security including cyber and physical.
You will work in matrix fashion with security colleagues embedded in our workplace services and capital projects teams who also manage the security capabilities provided by our strategic partners.
You will have a good understanding of security issues in a forming organisation bringing the expertise and leadership to mature and manage the holistic security function across a very large and complex estate.
You will educate and communicate on security issues across government demonstrating thought leadership in security and operational resilience.
We are aiming to recruit people from diverse backgrounds to make sure we have a wide range of skills to strengthen our security capability across government. We value the fact that our …
