Accreditation Security Professional

Description:

Accreditation Security Professional

Gloucestershire

Contract

£650 - £780 per day Inside IR35

We're currently seeking a ambitious Accreditation Security Professional to work with our exceptional client in a secure environment.

This contract role requires active SC clearance.

The Accreditation Security Professional must have demonstrable experience working in situations with reasonably complicated risk management scope.

Responsibilities:

Making and recording accreditation decisions, confirming that the residual risks on behalf of their organisation(s) are within the risk appetite(s) as recorded in relevant framework documentation escalating as appropriate.
Identifying Information Risks that have implications beyond the framework and communicating them to the relevant framework(s).
Ensuring that relevant standards and policies are appropriately applied.
Ensuring that all Information Risk Management Artefacts that are the responsibility of the Accreditor are established, proactively monitored, and kept up to date.
Establishing the Framework risk assessment and agreeing the controls that will cover physical, personnel, procedural and technical domains.
Building open and honest collaborative relationships with Framework owners, using narratives to influence behaviours and actions, to meet the organisations security requirements.
Providing constructive and timely advice on Information Risk mitigation strategies and their implications.
Providing updates on and relaying key issues pertaining to Framework(s) in team meetings and Framework reviews.
Proactively collaborating and sharing knowledge with other IA professionals.
Ensuring that technical and business skills remain current.
Being able to justify their accreditation decisions to stakeholders in terms of business objectives, threats, risks, vulnerabilities, controls, and business impacts.
Providing constructive, pragmatic, and timely advice to others on whether proposed solutions are likely to result in significant risks that may go beyond the risk appetite of the business.
Continually assessing the health and operation of a framework.
Provide a comprehensive knowledge transfer on completion of individual tasking to an identified point of contact.Skills required:

An expert in Risk Management,
Able to build relationships with stakeholders at varying seniority levels
Possess excellent communication skills
An ability to clearly understand the impacts of risk from a Security and Legal perspective
Actively keep up to date with industry relevant skills and advancements
Possess an array of technological skills and awareness
Eliciting information to fully understand requirements
Able to work independently
Consultative by nature
Take initiative in problem solving and related tasks