Sector security specialist


Company:	Jisc
Salary:	from £47,000 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Working pattern:	Remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	6 Nov 2026
Closing date:	6 Dec 2026

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Summary

About the role:

As a Sector security specialist within the Security Directorate, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering cyber security and resilience training for the UK education and research sector. Your role will translate and deliver technical security concepts, frameworks, regulation, emerging threats, and good practice into practical and engaging learning that organisations can apply to improve their cyber resilience.

You will help develop and maintain a training roadmap aligned to evolving sector needs and deliver a range of training, workshops, exercises, and simulations.

The role will also contribute to building Jisc’s longer-term sector exercising, simulation, and capability development, ensuring training remains current, practical, and focused on measurable improvements in cyber resilience.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop and maintain a Cyber Resilience Training Roadmap, working with the Head of Resiliency and Engagement, Head of Training Services, and subject matter experts to identify priorities based on sector needs, emerging threats, regulation, and Jisc’s cyber strategy.

• Design, develop, and deliver high-quality cyber resilience training and learning pathways for technical, security, and senior leadership audiences, using face-to-face, online, workshop, and practical learning approaches.

• Develop training that enables organisations to understand and practically apply relevant cyber security frameworks, standards, regulation, assurance approaches, and good practice, adapting content to the specific needs and challenges of the education and research sector.

• Develop and deliver practical cyber exercises and simulations, including red teaming, ransomware response, crisis management, tabletop exercises, and advanced incident response scenarios, including refreshing and expanding Jisc’s existing Ransomware Incident Response training.

• Develop and maintain engaging training materials, facilitator guides, exercises, scenarios, assessments, presentations, and supporting resources, working with internal and external subject matter experts to ensure content is technically accurate, relevant, accessible, and current.

• Deliver training, workshops, presentations, and practical sessions to Jisc members and the wider cyber community, supporting participants to translate learning into practical improvements within their organisations.

• Work collaboratively with Outreach & Engagement, Sector Resilience, Product, Marketing and Communications, and other relevant teams to coordinate, promote, and align training with wider Jisc cyber services and sector priorities.

• Represent Jisc at relevant sector events, conferences, workshops, and community activities, delivering presentations, demonstrations, and practical cyber resilience sessions.

Please note: Due to the nature of this role SC security clearance is required.

Essential requirements

Due to the nature of this role, please be aware that candidates must be available for regular weekly travel to member’s sites and Jisc offices throughout the UK. This will often require overnight stays. What we are looking for: • Willingness to travel on a weekly basis to members sites and Jisc offices across the UK is essential. • Excellent training, facilitation and presentation skills, with the ability to deliver engaging learning both online and in person • Proven experience designing, developing and delivering cyber security, cyber resilience or information security training to technical, operational and senior leadership audiences. • Strong technical knowledge across core cyber security disciplines, including security operations, incident response, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, vulnerability management, logging and monitoring, with the credibility to engage with and challenge technical security professionals. • Experience with enterprise security technologies such as Microsoft security, SIEM, EDR/XDR, cloud or network security. • Experience developing and facilitating practical exercises, simulations, workshops and tabletop scenarios, ideally covering incident response, ransomware, crisis management or cyber resilience. • Experience evaluating and improving training through feedback, assessment and measurable learning outcomes. • Degree or equivalent professional experience in cyber security, information security, computing, technology or Industry-recognised cyber security qualifications such as CISMP, CISM, CISSP, Security+ or equivalent with a recognised cyber security qualification or demonstrable equivalent professional experience. • Demonstrable training, teaching, facilitation or learning development experience.

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