Essex (On-Site)
Permanent, Full time
54615
FULLTIME
Grade 9- £52,584- £56,646pa
About the Job
The main duties and responsibilities of this role are:
- Developing organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for information and records management, ensuring that the information required to support the organisation is defined
- Devising information and records management processes and planning and leading activities to communicate and implement information management strategies and policies.
- Leading the council's efforts to protect its information systems and data from cyber threats, selecting, adopting, and adapting information security control frameworks, and designing, justifying, and implementing security management strategies.
- Developing, implementing, and monitoring organisational policies and processes to maintain assurance in relation to the availability, integrity, authenticity, confidentiality, and non-repudiation of the organisation's records.
- Ensuring all staff are trained in information governance and security best practices and understand their roles in maintaining security and privacy.
- Monitoring the council's networks for security breaches, investigating violations when they occur, and planning and conducting regular system tests and continuous monitoring of network security.
- Preparing and presenting reports on the status of the information governance and security posture to senior leadership.
- Supporting members of the Senior Management team to identify information risks, coordinate information risk assessments, manage agreed actions, and monitor the status of information risks on an ongoing basis.
- Coordinating with external agencies and organisations on cybersecurity issues and reviewing major new business proposals to provide specialist advice on information management.
About You
Experience:
The ideal candidate will possess:
- A degree or equivalent work-related attainment or experience.
- Relevant certification based on skills requirements.
- Proven experience in contributing to the development and implementation of policy and strategy.
- Expertise in information assurance, information management, risk management, and stakeholder relationship management.
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to manage and mitigate organisational risk.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating business objectives to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Please view Job Profile here
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Mark.Duff@havering.gov.uk
The closing date for the receipt of applications is 22nd May 2025 however interest in this job may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early.
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