NexGen Associates
Risk & Governance Consultant
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Risk & Governance Consultant
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 depending on level of experience
Location: Cheltenham (Hybrid)
You must have a minimum of SC clearance to be eligible for this role.
NexGen Associates is working with a leading technical defence consultancy. Our client is looking to take on a Service Leaver or Veteran to fill their Risk & Governance Consultant role. They are a veteran-friendly company and will support and guide you through your transitioning process.
Main Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be a knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and conscientious individual who has the relevant qualifications, certifications, and experience in line with the level of consultant you are applying for. You will work on a range of client-facing projects, large and small, but will also be expected to contribute to winning new business and managing delivery. To be successful in this role, you need to have the ability to work on multiple projects and with many stakeholders concurrently. Your key responsibilities will encompass the following:
- Provide security advice and guidance for clients in ‘business as usual’, technical refresh, and new project environments.
- Identify and establish good security governance to meet client business requirements.
- Identify client risks within client operational environments and determine appropriate remediation based on business risk appetite that protects information assets from loss, misuse, leakage, or corruption.
- Perform compliance activity on client systems and business processes to assess the levels of CS&IA controls and identify gaps to address.
- Create or review client policies and procedures to meet corporate and regulatory requirements.
- Build successful working relationships with team members, key customers, and stakeholders that improves the value of the services being performed.
- Work in partnership with clients to implement controls in pragmatic ways that deliver investment value and support business operations.
- Mentor others within the team in a technical and consultancy capacity.
- Proactively assist the Head of Services in the strategy and growth of the BU.
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The Ideal Candidate:
The ideal candidate will meet the majority or all of the following (in line with the level of consultant you are applying for):
- Willingness to frequently work at secure government facilities (minimum 3 days/week for periods of time).
- Experience of delivering technical Risk & Governance consultancy within a Defence environment, or other UK Government sectors.
- Ability to provide technical assurance, risk management, and solutions within complex scenarios.
- Ability to conduct, deliver, and maintain technical security risk assessments using established or novel approaches.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- High proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to work on multiple projects and tasks concurrently, successfully balancing business and client priorities.
- Ability to provide high-quality work under pressure that delivers security outcomes to tight deadlines and manage client-stakeholder expectations.
- Ability to work effectively both individually and as a senior team member in a multi-disciplined organization.
- Ability to coordinate and manage multi-disciplined resources, including technical specialists, while providing coherent reporting to non-technical business stakeholders.
- Ability to provide threat detection and monitoring technologies and services.
- Ability to produce incident response plans and coordinate desktop incident response exercises.
- Broad knowledge and application of common bodies, standards, frameworks, guidelines, and legislation, including:
- HMG/NCSC Information Assurance Policies, Standards, and Guidelines
- Cross-government security accreditation and secure by design processes
- JSP440 (plus other standard MoD IA methods)
- DCPP’s Cyber Security Model
- List X, List N
- Cyber Essentials
- Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) Security Assessment Principles (SyAPs)
- NIST
- GDPR, DPA, Computer Misuse Act, Official Secrets Act
- NIS-D
- Flexibility to travel and work throughout the UK.
- Ambition to work in a challenging and rewarding role that provides real benefit to clients.
- A proactive interest in maintaining and enhancing technical and consultancy skills.
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Professional Qualifications, Certifications, and Security Clearances:
- Full Member of CIISec and/or UK Cyber Security Council (Security and Information Risk Advisor, Auditor, or Security Architect) or the agreement and ability to achieve such certification within 6 months of employment.
- Holder of current key security industry certifications such as COMPTIA Security +, CISSP, CISM, and ISO 270001
- CS&IA associated degree-level education (desirable)
- Current high-level security clearance and ability to maintain it.
Our client is a Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award winner.
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