Chief Security Officer - Army - Fixed term contract
Posted 4 days ago by UK Ministry of Defence
£104,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Undetermined
Andover, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Chief Security Officer for the Army is responsible for overseeing physical, cyber, personnel security, resilience, and counter-intelligence. This role also includes serving as the Senior Responsible Owner for the Land Cyber and Electro-Magnetic Activities Programme, collaborating with the National Armaments Directorate. The position involves leading a team of 118 personnel and ensuring compliance with security policies while driving a multi-year change program to mitigate strategic risks. The role reports to the Army’s Chief Information Officer and Senior Security Risk Coordinator.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee policy, operational delivery, and program delivery for Cyber and Electromagnetic activities, Security, and Resilience.
- Ensure the evolution of Army physical, cyber, and personnel security policy and resilience policy.
- Set baseline security policy for the Army and oversee its delivery.
- Work closely with MOD, Other Government Departments, and the Intelligence Community.
- Make operational decisions on escalated risks and provide direction on acceptable risk.
- Ensure legislative compliance with the Investigatory Powers Act and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
- Drive a multi-year program of change activity to mitigate strategic security risks.
- Lead the development and maintenance of a strong security culture across the organization.
- Measure and report on the performance of security improvements to the Army Board.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience in security management and policy development.
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- Ability to make strategic decisions on risk management.
- Knowledge of legislative compliance related to security.
- Experience in driving change programs and measuring performance metrics.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with various stakeholders.
Salary (Rate): £104,000 yearly
City: Andover
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
About the job
The first element of this role is to be the Army’s Chief Security Officer, responsible for physical, cyber, personnel Security, resilience and counter-intelligence. The second element will be to operate as the Senior Responsible Owner for the Land Cyber and Electro-Magnetic Activities Programme, working with the newly established National Armaments Directorate, announced under Defence Reform. The role reports to the Army’s Chief Information Officer & Senior Security Risk Coordinator and oversees a team of 118 personnel with a mixed team of civil servants, contractors and military staff.
If you are interested in the role and are keen to learn more about it, a Q&A session will be open between 14:30 to 15:15 on Tuesday 12th August . Candidates can access the meeting by clicking here . Please note this is not part of the formal assessment process. If you have any issues when joining this session, please contact People-CivHR-SCSCandidateSupport@mod.gov.uk.
Job description
You will be responsible for overseeing policy, operational delivery, programme delivery and being the functional lead and Head of Profession for the Army for Cyber and Electromagnetic activities, Security and Resilience. Ensure Army physical, cyber and personnel security policy and Army resilience policy evolves to reflect the threats we face and the means available to mitigate them. The post sets the baseline security policy for the Army and oversees its delivery. In doing so, the post holder must work closely with MOD, Other Government Department colleagues and with the Intelligence Community and Civil Contingencies Community to ensure the Army approach to security and resilience reflects the threats we face. Take operational decisions on risk which have been escalated within the Department. The post holder will be expected to determine and provide direction on acceptable risk in several sensitive areas, particularly where these fall outside routine delegations or baseline policy and advise the Senior Security Risk Coordinator. Responsible for ensuring legislative compliance with the Investigatory Powers Act and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. Drive a multi-year programme of change activity (c.£10m/yr) designed to mitigate the Army’s Strategic Risk on security. Lead on the development, delivery and maintenance of a strong security culture across a globally dispersed organisation, and industry partners. Measure the performance of our security improvements through qualitative and quantitative metrics and report to the Army Board.
Further information about this role can be found on the Civil Service Jobs website by accessing the link within this advert. Please be aware that applications must be completed before 11:55 pm on Sunday 17th August 2025.