Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£44,241 to £44,241 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Oldham
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	28 Sept 2026
Closing date:	11 Oct 2026

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Summary

The Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager will lead efforts to identify, assess, and mitigate cybersecurity risks within the agency’s digital infrastructure. This role involves developing risk management strategies, ensuring compliance with government security standards, and collaborating with various departments to protect sensitive data and systems. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, risk assessment methodologies, and threat management, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. The position is critical to safeguarding the agency’s mission and operations against evolving cyber threats.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here

25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday

Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

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Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

- The Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager identifies, understands and mitigates cyber-related risks, and provides risk or service owners with advice to help them make well informed risk-based decisions; focusing on:

Project activity to ensure compliance with information legislation and DVSA policy particularly HMG’s Security Policy Framework, and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Standards.
Raising risks as necessary to respond to any non-compliance and provides direction for Information Management and Security to manage the ongoing assurance of DVSAs information assets and products, and liaising with Department for Transport Assurance Authority or equivalent, when necessary.

- Lead the analysis and derivation of business-supporting security needs, undertake Cyber Security related risk assessments, conduct tailored threat assessment and other risk management activities, and ensure activities are consistent with applicable regulations and legislation

- Provide tailored advice to a range of stakeholders on how to remedy identified risks by proportionately applying security capabilities, using published guidance, standards, and drawing on a range of experts as well as personal expertise

- Responsibility for ensuring DVSA’s compliance with key principles and outcomes outlined in HMGs Security Policy Framework, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) and or National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to Cyber and related governance models and supporting the reporting of these to DfT and Cabinet Office.

- With responsibility for direct reports, you will demonstrate leadership by providing guidance to staff to support the delivery of objectives. Manage and engage with honesty and integrity, and upholding the reputation of the Agency, Department and Civil Service.

- Leads incident response as directed by the Head of Cyber Assurance, including responding to alerts from any Security Operations Centre monitoring DVSA Systems.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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