Deputy Director Cyber Resilience and Growth - Department Culture, Media and Sport - SCS

Location

This role may be based in one of the following locations London, Manchester, or Darlington.

- Occasional travel to other DCMS offices will be expected. The department operates a discretionary Hybrid Working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home-based location for 40-60% of the time. Senior Civil Servant (SCS) staff are expected to aim for closer to 60% of the time at an office or non-home-based location over the accounting period.

About the job Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of Cyber Security and Digital Identity Directorate’s approach to cyber resilience and economic growth and play an important part inDCMS's ambitiousagenda.

The postholder will lead a team of around 35 delivering a series of policies and programmes to drive greater cyber security and digital resilience across the UK, including through the development of new legislation on secure technologies, and supporting our vibrant and regionally diverse cyber security sector. You will work with a broad range of stakeholders, including the National Cyber Security Centre, international counterparts, and people from across the cyber industry and wider tech community.

As
Deputy Director for Cyber Resilience and Growth
you will beleading a Unit, of three G6-headed teams: securing organisations, securing technologies, and growth, standards and delivery. You will act as the SRO for both the Growth and Resilience pillars, within the cross-government national cyber governance, with a secretariat team to support you in doing so. You will also act as the senior representative for cyber into the governance of the Industrial Strategy.

The portfolio brings together much ofDCMS' workto:

• Improve cyber resilience across businesses, critical sectors and public services.
• Drive adoption of cyber security standards and good practice.
• Deliver major resilience initiatives such as Cyber Essentials, codes of practice and certification schemes.
• Develop new legislation on secure technologies and work on promoting greater regulatory alignment between UK and international regimes, such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act.
• Support growth of the UK’s thriving cyber sector through programmes, innovation and skills initiatives, and deliver on the Cyber Growth Action Plan.
• Lead implementation of the
  Growth
  and
  Resilience
  pillars of the National Cyber Action Plan.

Job description

As
Deputy Director for Cyber Resilience and Growth
your key responsibilities will include:

• Lead and inspire a high-performing, multidisciplinary team.
• Provide strategic leadership for the Government’s cyber resilience and cyber growth agenda including managing a budget of £15m.
• Provide governance and accountability to the Integrated Security Fund for £90m on resilience over the SR period.
• Shape and deliver long-term strategies, policies andprogrammesto improve cyber resilience across the UK economy.
• Lead development and implementation of policies to improve cyber resilience across critical sectors, businesses and public services.
• Lead the Government’s efforts to grow the UK cyber sector, supporting innovation, investment, skills development and export opportunities.
• RepresentDCMSat senior forums across government, industry and internationalorganisations, and engage with international counterparts.
• Ensure effectiveprogramme, budget, risk and performance management across the portfolio.

Person specification

The ideal candidate would have the following key skills and experience, please note that desirable skills will only be used in the event of tied candidates.

Essential Requirements:

• Strategic leadership:Proven ability to lead in a complex environment, taking a strategic approach to identifying growth opportunities andanticipatingfuture challenges, jugglingshort-term pressures with long-term goals.
• Policy and strategic acumen:High degree of comfort working in a broad policy environment that spans economic growth, national security,science and technology. You must have a record of developing evidence-based policy and working closely with ministers.
• Deliv…