Security Information & Risk Advisor at AWE, Aldermaston, 6 months, £Contract Rate

On behalf of AWE, we are looking for a Security information and risk advisor Inside IR35 for a 6 months contract based in Reading

What if you could work on something that you can't test ... but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge. That's exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day delivering important work, in support of the most important mission - keeping the nation safe.

AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.

As a Security information and risk advisor, your main responsibilities will be:

• Use repeatable and consistent risk assessment

techniques to identify emerging information risks throughout the life cycle of

assigned information systems, services, or business solutions.

• Co-ordinate the identification of suitable risk treatment options in the

context of the business and ensure these are traceable to risks.

• Develop security evidence as required and specified by the business to enable

the effective and consistent application of AWE's risk management process:

ensuring these are necessary and proportionate and match the business

requirement.

• Support the Accreditation process

• Present security briefings to users or local management

• Contribute to security communications.

• Draft requirements for external assurance activities.

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide a focal point for resolution of security and information risk

matters.

• Identify, analyse, and evaluate information risks.

• Explain to risk owners and other stakeholders the causes, likelihood, and

potential business impacts of information risks throughout the information

system lifecycle.

• Assess compliance with applicable regulations, standards, policies, and

guidance on information risk management.

• Present risk management options to the business.

• Support the development of appropriate and proportionate documentation to

inform risk management decisions, ensuring these are expressed in terms

meaningful to the business.

• Promote security awareness

• All - maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety,

health, security and quality and be a great team player.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

AWE's ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, AWE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant / commitment

AWE guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.