Information Security Administrator

ENGINEERINGUK; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 25,000

Job description

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Employer: Historic England

Location: Nationwide, Great Britain

Salary: GBP 23,588.00 - 24,978.00 per year

Closing date: 1 May 2025

Summary
We are the public body that looks after England's historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Information Security Administrator.

This is a Full Time, Permanent post.

The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working. You will be based in one of our following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland) and Cambridge. We will consider home working.

£23,588 - £24,978 pro-rata dependent on experience.

Benefits
We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

What you will be doing
As our Information Security Administrator, you will work closely with the Information Security Manager to improve information security across Historic England. You will provide a broad range of administrative support to include data administration, risk management, and cybersecurity awareness initiatives, leveraging tools and platforms such as SharePoint and PowerBI.

You will liaise directly with colleagues across Historic England with a focus on updating and maintaining the Information Asset Register, administering supplier security questionnaires, managing risk registers, and assisting in cybersecurity awareness campaigns. Your role will also contribute to the SharePoint Online project.

Who we are looking for

• Experience of MS office products particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, PowerBI and SharePoint Online
• Ability to prioritise own work and meet deadlines
• Able to build good working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
• Understanding of the importance of information security within a public sector organisation
• Demonstrates a passion for learning particularly in the area of information management and security

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don't prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working.

Why work for Historic England
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at [e-mail] if you have any recruitment queries.

At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone, the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Provisional interview dates: 29th and 30th April

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