Cyber Policy and Standards Lead

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports., The Senior Cyber Policy Manager is part of a high performing, specialist team that is responsible for the development, implementation and management of policies and standards that underpin the designing, running and decommissioning of technical solutions across the Home Office.

• Contributing to the vision, principles and strategy set down by the Head of GRC, ensuring that it reflects the needs of HOCS and the wider Department


• Liaising with stakeholders within the Home Office to ensure that policies and standards are seamlessly deployed


• Coordinating, maintaining, and regularly reviewing the policies, standards, and HOCS-defined artefact templates


• Ensuring appropriate change management and configuration control of the policies, standards, and HOCS-defined artefact templates


• Reviewing the latest cyber security standards, threat intelligence, frameworks, guidance (e.g. NIST, ISO 27001, NCSC etc.) to ensure that the latest industry best practice is reflected throughout the Home Office's own cyber policies and standards


• Identifying ways to continually improve the Home Office's cyber policies and standards and acting as a point of escalation for the team.


The current building location for this role is Croydon and Manchester.

Occasional travel to other HO offices will be required.

Working Pattern

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, job-share and compressed hours are available.,
• Communicating and implementing HOCS policies and standards.


• Devising a schedule of policy / standard compliance reviews and conducting them in collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders across DDaT and wider Home Office portfolios.


• Task and line management of a HEO in the team and up skill new and existing team members.


• Contributing to the central co-ordination, maintenance and review of policies, standards and other business area artefacts / templates to deliver continuous improvement.


• Developing procedures for appropriate change management and configuration control of policies, standards, business area artefacts / templates.


• Collaborating with Home Office and other Government Department peers to align and deconflict with their related policy areas and support any gap analysis that requires development of new policies.


• Contributing to the development of guidance on policy implementation.


• Keeping up to date with wider policy developments / standards / legislation / technology to ensure policy artefacts remain current.


• Keeping up to date with the latest industry / policy area standards, frameworks and guidance to ensure best practice is reflected in policies and standards across the Home Office e.g. the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) guidance and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framework.