Physical Security Project Manager / Liaison (NPSA)

Utilities

Hybrid: 1-2 days per week in Wokingham

6 months+

£650 per day

In short: We require a Project Manager / Security Liaison with a strong background in physical / facility security to oversee and facilitate the security side construction of site builds ensuring that the builders deliver to NPSA standards.

In full:

The purpose of this role is to be accountable and principle focal point for Corporate Security support into a capital investment project. This will include providing guidance, direction, advice and strategic direction to the project team, its partners and contractors, supporting delivery of this crucial project. The post holder will be responsible for delivering security programmes and solutions to safeguard the organisations people and assets, ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, regulatory and corporate policies, procedures, and guidelines.

You must meet the criteria for SC Clearance.

Responsibilities:

• This position is accountable and principle focal point for the project, working in collaboration with the Corporate Security Team in generating and deploying the security policy, ensuring an appropriate and proportionate approach to security management across the portfolio within the UK.
• Responsible for developing the approach and content delivery for discussions with central government. Representing the client and the corporate security team in Government meetings and focus groups as a topical expert and UK lead.
• Lead the on the project security principles, liaising with government and the design house to ensure the building is appropriately designed through the RIBA design stages and aligns with best practice and guidance.
• Accountable for setting the wider project wide delivery security principles
• Ultimately responsible for the efficient designing, developing, implementing, and managing of the security aspects of the program to protect corporate assets and people against theft, acts of terrorism, and other such hostile activity.
• Support the Security team in carrying out their roles and achieving their objectives.

Knowledge and experience:

• Proven experience of working with key Government departments and Law enforcement agencies, supporting wider UK Government Counter Terrorism, Domestic Extremism and Crime prevention Strategies.
• Proven people management skills, managing performance and development plans.
• Excellent knowledge of physical, personal and personnel security and related principles.
• Must have previous experience in designing, developing, implementing, and managing of security programs.
• Possess strong analytical, organisational, management, and administrative experience within the security industry or UK Security Service.
• Proven track record of delivering and running physical security programs and campaigns.
• Able to demonstrate a high degree of credibility and influence senior stakeholders within the organisation and key external stakeholders.
• Prior Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) experience ideal.
• Experience of managing Government marked information and material.
• Security Surveys
• Operational Requirements
• Site Specific Operational Requirements
• Project support relating to security
• Infrastructure Security
• National Protective Security Authority
• Protective security

Essential:

Aptitude to convey the business benefit of a threat based, risk informed security approach ensuring business risk owners are empowered to make appropriate and proportionate security decisions.

Desirable:

• Security related credentials would be beneficial, preferably Home Office/UK Security Service trained.
• ASIS International Certified Protection Professional (CPP) or Physical Security Professional (PSP)
• CCTV Public Space Surveillance licences.
• Register of Security Engineers & Specialists

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

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