Head of Physical Security & Resilience

Professional Services & Estates Assurance is a Deputy Director (SCS1) led team of subject matter experts and specialist engineers covering, Construction, Digital, Data & Analytics and the Professional Services Team (Fire, H&S, Security, BIM, Sustainability & Building Services). Providing specialist advice, guidance, assurance and statutory compliance.

This a critical role in Estates, responsible for the following:

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• Threat & Risk Assurance (TaRA) process.
• Physical Security Design Standards (PSDS).
• Departmental Security Health Check (DSHC) Physical section.
• Strategic direction for physical security improvements.
• Level 2 Physical Security Assurance.

Physical Security and Resilience encompasses setting the standards across HMRC for:

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• Hostile Vehicle Mitigation - HVM.
• Walling & Door Systems.
• Glazing.
• Perimeter measures (Fencing & PID systems).

• Access Control Systems (AACS).
• Intruder Detection Systems (IDS).
• Video Surveillance Systems (VSS).
• Integration of systems.

The role will require an individual from a Security and/or Engineering background who is able to work alone or as part of a team, while exhibiting diplomacy, honesty and integrity.

They will require academic / professional qualifications / accreditation as follows:

• Degree or equivalent in relevant subject(s).
• Member or Fellow of a relevant security professional body such as CSyP;
  Security Institute; RSES.

The successful candidate will have to undertake the role of subject matter expert, and so applicants must already have the requisite knowledge and experience as they will not be afforded time to learn on the job.

• Ability to travel UK wide in role.

• Applied physical security
  - Expert.
• Risk understanding and mitigation
  - Expert.
• Protective security
  - Practitioner.
• Threat understanding
  - Practitioner.
• Legal & regulatory environment and compliance
  - Working.
• BIM; REVIT; CAD
  - Working.
• Capable of operating efficiently across a wide variety of differing business areas.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate they have successfully developed and implemented physical security strategies within large / complex organisations, and will have circa

• Extensive General Security experience.
• Built Environment Security experience.
• Hold a Security/ Engineering qualification such as CEng / IEng.

This role requires the successful candidate to hold or be willing to hold Security Check (SC) clearance.