Personnel Security Analyst

Personnel Security Analyst (Part-time, Job share or full time) - Salary – £41,659 - £49,010 (dependent on experience) - Hybrid working.

Our growing team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the cutting edge of geospatial capability and we’re looking for people to join them.

Join us and you’ll have an opportunity to make an impact. To empower projects that deliver real-world benefits across Britain and internationally. To hear our customers say they could not have done it without us. And to be central to OS’ vision: to be recognised as world leaders in geospatial services; creating location insight for positive impact.

Good security for our OS customers, our colleagues and our assets is at the heart of this, and we have an exciting opportunity to join the security team and strive to change the culture of Personnel Security (PerSec) across the organisation. 

Joining the Protective Security & Resilience Team, reporting into the Security Adviser, we are looking for someone to spot and drive continuous improvement opportunities in our PerSec capability. This is more than just about rules, policy and compliance – it's about the human in the system. You'll be using your analyst skills to identify and track risks and issues, and using those insights to drive change and improvements on PerSec awareness and our security culture.  

About the role

The successful candidate will focus on specific business areas with enhanced Personnel Security needs, and will support the aims and objectives of the wider Security Team by:

• Driving forward best practice to align OS with established standards and improve PerSec maturity

• Working with process owners across the business to identify PerSec risks and seek improvements to address those risks

• Support the development of PerSec risk assessments, ensuring appropriate controls are embedded

• Translating high level security risks into realistic, necessary and proportionate control measures

• Ensuring appropriate internal policies and procedures are in place, and analysing their impact and effectiveness

Join our dynamic team

We are looking for someone with knowledge of, and an interest in, Personnel Security, to deliver PerSec risk mitigations across OS.

Essential Criteria:

• Experience in and knowledge of security controls in a large organisation

• Knowledge of PerSec

• Experience of working with senior stakeholders and explaining risks to all levels within a business

• Ability to identify and translate high level security requirements into realistic plans of activity to reduce risk

• A proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in a security role

• Experience of managing relationships with a large group of stakeholders, often at senior levels, with different needs and expectations

• Knowledge / experience of risk management (ideally security risk management)

• Good IT skills

• Proficient in Office 365

Beneficial Criteria:

• Experience of UK Government security

• Experience of working in security

The Rewards

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• Salary – £41,659 - £49,010 (dependent on experience)

• Performance related bonus up to 10%

• A competitive pension scheme (OS contributes up to 12.07%)

• 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays on joining (3 taking over Christmas)

• Paid maternity, paternity and shared parental leave

• Free subscription to OS Maps

• Access to online learning platforms

• Coaching and Mentoring schemes

• Plus, a suite of excellent additional perks and benefits

At OS, we believe looking after your health and wellbeing means more than posters and events. We empower you to manage your work and life the way you need it by offering things like

• An extra days’ leave for each year you work, up to 33 days

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Hybrid working

• Free onsite parking at our modern HQ in Southampton

• We adopt flexible working and can consider different working hours dependent on the role and your personal circumstances

• Eyecare Vouchers

• OS Exp