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Please note that unless you are currently employed by the Civil Service and are earning more than the minimum above, if successful you will be offered the minimum for the grade depending on your location.

Location: Any LAA office.

Please note that whilst this role is open to all, you can only apply for London, Cambridge and Brighton offices if you are a current LAA staff member based in those offices. This is due to and in line with the LAA's Location Strategy and the Cabinet Office's Places for Growth Strategy.

40% office attendance is required. That may be at your base location and other offices. Occasional travel to other offices will be required.

Minimum Working Pattern:

If you are applying for a part time role, please note that in order to meet business demands we need cover for a minimum of 21 hours and to cover 3 days of the week.

To meet legal requirements, if you are between the ages 16-18 and you are a successful candidate, you will be required to complete an apprenticeship after your initial on the job training.

The Legal Aid Agency

We are an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). We areresponsible for operationally administering the legal aid fund to provide criminal and civil legal aid advice to people in England and Wales.

Our people are at the heart of achieving excellence. Employing around 1,200 colleagues across England and Wales, we feel proud to have some of the best People Survey results in the Civil Service.

Assurance Directorate

LAA’s Assurance teams ensure effective governance of the agency through our executive committees and deliver the practices, procedures and processes to provide our Chief Executive with assurance that LAA is appropriately managing risks relating to fraud, error in decision making, financial stewardship, health and safety, information security, data protection and business continuity.

Corporate Assurance, Risk and Secretariat

The CARS team combines the 5 functions of Health & Safety, Information Assurance & Security, Business Continuity, Risk and Secretariat to collectively strengthen and support the LAA’s governance, our assurance strategies, risk management processes and provide support to the LAA’s senior governance forums including the Board and Executive Leadership Team.

This role sits within Information Assurance & Security, a function that ensures the LAA appropriately protects and manages a significant volume of often very sensitive data relating to legal aid clients, our staff, legal aid Providers and other third parties. Our work ensures the LAA meets its obligations under Data Protection legislation and UK Government security standards.

Job Summary

You will play a key role in ensuring that projects and initiatives across the LAA, primarily involving new or modernised IT systems, are delivered in a manner that ensures government security standards and data protection requirements are met to ensure that sensitive data is protected. You will provide advice and support to project teams on information security and data protection requirements and work closely with stakeholders to deliver Secure by Design solutions. You will take a leading role in the management of information risk and provide assurance to senior leaders.

As part of the Information Assurance & Security team you will work with staff at all grades across the organisation to build and improve LAA’s security culture, deliver training and respond to security incidents.

Key Responsibilities:

Provision of expert advice and support to stakeholders across the LAA on the application of Data Protection Legislation, Secure by Design principles and information risk management in their business area.
Provision of risk assessments and controls and providing advice on information security risk, including to senior leadership
Close working with other security stakeholders across MoJ to manage security risk in LAA
Supporting LAA incident management processes
Supporting wider security practices across physical, personnel and cyber security.
Working with business areas and stakeholders at all levels to drive process improvements with a view to improving compliance and/or preventing incidents.
Support the LAA’s wider security awareness culture by reviewing new guidance from technical authorities, regulatory bodies and government bodies.
Develop and deliver training for a range of stakeholders and help facilitate and deliver bespoke training on a range of data protection and security topics.
Other work as required to deliver CARS team objectives
Travel to LAA sites across England and Wales as required, including occasional overnight stays.

Essential Qualifications

Recognised qualification in information security or security risk management.

Essential Knowledge, Experience and skills

Experience of risk management in a security context.
Experience of delivering security assessments against a recognised security standard or framework.
Experience of system or process improvement in the context of improving the security posture of the process or system.

Desirable Knowledge, Experience and skills

Knowledge of Secure by Design principles and experience of assessing against them.

Person Specification

You'll have the ability to understand technical information and translate it into plain English to present or report to senior stakeholders.
You'll be someone that can assess compliance for a project, process or system against a security framework.
You'll have a desire to make positive changes - Information Assurance isn't about saying no, it's about enabling developments in a way that responsibly manages associated risks.
You'll work well with people and be able to maintain positive relationships whilst ensuring legislative obligations are met.
You'll enjoy working in both a pro-active and re-active way, to be able to reprioritise effectively, especially during incident management.
This role requires National Security Vetting Level CTC.

Assessment approach

Application Process

To apply please submit a CV and statement of suitability showing how you meet the essential criteria in no more than 1000 words.

Your CV should demonstrate that you have the essential qualification. Your statement should demonstrate your ability to do all the essential criteria listed, using examples can help strengthen your application.

Please note that we only require a Statement of Suitability for your application. The wording on this advert may suggest that an Experience question is also required, however this is not necessary.

Interview / assessment Process

If you are successful through the application stage, you will be invited to an interview / assessment centre in person or via Microsoft Teams where you will be assessed against the following:

Strengths relevant to the role.
The following Behaviours:
Making Effective Decisions
Working Together
Delivering at Pace
Communicating and Influencing

Your experience of risk management in a security context.
Your Experience of implementing, promoting, or understanding diversity and inclusion policy.

Your Experience of implementing, promoting, or understanding diversity and inclusion policy - Diversity is the presence of difference, this can include one or more of the protected characteristics (Gender, Age, Race, Disability etc.) or it can be about working patterns, whether we like to jump into a task or reflect on it before acting. Inclusion is how we welcome, value, and celebrate diversity, giving everyone a voice, tapping into ideas, and enabling everyone to be themselves at work and achieve their potential.

For this grade/ role we would expect the candidate to demonstrate understanding of the terms Diversity and Inclusion and be able to explain why they are important in a work environment. We would also expect examples of action they have taken to embrace diversity (e.g., increasing understanding for self or others) or improve inclusion at a team or wider group level.

Please note, that if you progress to interview, you will be asked to provide evidence of the qualifications you’ve stated on your application.

Shortlisting is planned for week commencing 3rd August 2026

Interviews are planned for week commencing 24th August 2026

If you would like more information on this opportunity, please contact – Adrian McArthur-Johnston
adrian.mcarthur-johnston@justice.gov.uk

Our LAA commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain, and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.

As a Disability Confident organisation, we will offer a guaranteed interview to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for this role. Under the Equality Act 2010 a disability is defined as a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities which has lasted, or is expected to last, at least 12 months.

If you are responding to a role within the Legal Aid Agency and would like to be considered under the guaranteed interview, please indicate this in your application and let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may require during the sift or later selection processes.

The LAA’s goal is to build an organisation that is open and inclusive and truly values and celebrates the diversity of its workforce. One that reflects and understands the needs of the diverse society we serve. This is regardless of social background, gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, beliefs, disabilities or long-term illness or caring responsibilities.

Reasonable Adjustments

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments to support you through the recruitment process, please let us know by adding the information to the applications system or emailing LAARecruitment@justice.gov.uk after you have applied so that we can discuss options with you.

Complaints procedure

If you have any complaints about this recruitment activity, please share your concerns by emailing LAARecruitment@justice.gov.uk initially. We aim to respond to any complaint within 10 working days.

If you are dissatisfied with our response, we will forward your complaint to the Civil Service Commission, an independent body, for review.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Qualifications

Proof of Qual

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Making Effective Decisions
Working Together
Delivering at Pace
Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £42,914, Legal Aid Agency contributes £12,432 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

Access to learning and development
A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Annual Leave
Public Holidays
Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
Telephone : 0345 241 5359

Recruitment team

Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitm…

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