Programme Manager - Cyber Security
Westminster - London

Vacancy Reference: 001717

Location: Westminster - London

Closing Date: 01/04/2019

Salary: £67,963 pa (including London Weighting)

Employment Type: Fixed term, full-time

Department: Workforce, Leadership & Productivity, LGA

Hours Per Week: 35

Fixed term or secondment opportunity until 31 March 2020 (with possible option for extension)

The role
The LGA represents 415 local authorities in England and Wales. Our Leadership and Improvement work directly supports councils through a number of programmes including our support to councils’ commercial activities.

For most local authorities, nothing is more important at the moment than building their capacity to make savings or generate income that will allow them to maintain and improve services to citizens. The Productivity Programme is an integrated programme of projects designed to help local authorities individually and collectively to make best use of resources during a period of changing public services. For more information on Productivity programmes please click here .

The requirements
The role is to lead our team working on a 3 year funded programme to improve cyber resilience in councils. The work involves helping raise the profile of cyber security amongst local government senior managers and elected members, as well as overseeing and delivering a funding programme; working with those councils recently awarded grant funding to improve their cyber resilience, as well as implementing further phases of funding over the next 2 years.

You will have significant knowledge and experience of overseeing a programme of work  in or for local government and the ability to engage effectively with councils, central government and the IT sector at different levels. An ability to communicate with key stakeholders, including at a senior level and within a professional community, is crucial. 

You will help us devise and implement our programme of support for councils to enable them to develop the necessary knowledge, skills and capacity to be cyber resilient. You will have experience of delivering complex programmes for multiple organisations, managing the resources and budget allocated, and working with key stakeholders to do so. You will also have experience of overseeing and monitoring progress of deliverables to agreed timescales as well as providing regular reports for both internal and external sponsors.

As part of the programme of support, you will help capture and mainstream existing good practice to enable other councils to apply this to their work. This involves regular communication with councils and other partners.   

Technical knowledge of cyber security is not required, though may be useful. However a good understanding of and experience of working in or with councils and the context councils operate in is essential.

The person we offer this role to will be a self-starter who can quickly get to grips with this expanding programme of work as well as bringing initiative and ideas to the table as the programme progresses. An ability to work quickly and to problem solve at pace are desirable. You will need to be able to keep track of and manage different parts of a fast paced programme.

The successful applicant will be a team leader with experience of applying project management approaches to a programme of activities, with an interest in the issues involved in delivering efficient local public services. This role will be of particular interest to anyone with direct experience of working on technology or other improvement programmes in the public sector.

Please note the Job Description is generic, with details of the role outlined above.

Closing Date:       5pm, Monday 1 April 2019
Interview Date:     w/c 15 April 2019

As a Disability Confident Leader the LGA values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community 

 

This vacancy is now closed. We are no longer accepting applications for this position.

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