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Pay up to £82,026, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
This is a rare opportunity to shape security risk at national scale, influencing decisions that directly protect millions of citizens and the UK’s most critical public services.
The Head of Security Risk leads DWP’s strategic security risk function, operating at enterprise scale across all security domains: cyber, personnel, physical and supply chain security.
In this role you will provide authoritative, organisation wide security risk insight to senior leaders, enabling them to make confident, well informed decisions that protect departmental objectives, services and UK citizens.
This is a role with national significance, given DWP’s scale: 96,000 staff, £250bn in annual payments, personal data on every living UK citizen, and a threat landscape spanning everything from frontline operational incidents, insiders, organised crime groups and state sponsored cyber actors. The Head of Security Risk shapes how DWP identifies, understands and responds to these risks, ensuring the department delivers services safely, securely and resiliently.
The Head of Security Risk leads a team of approximately 15 staff and is responsible for strengthening DWP’s security risk capability, embedding high‑quality analytical standards, modern methodologies and clear strategic reporting. It also provides expert security risk support to core business functions that do not have their own dedicated security risk capability.
Key responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Direction
Production of Strategic Security Risk Assessments
Influencing and Senior Stakeholder Engagement
Supporting Security Policy & Standards
On‑Demand Risk Support Across DWP
Transforming and Professionalising the Function
Cross‑organisation Leadership and Collaboration
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
Details. Wages. Perks.
Alongside your salary, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £21,735 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
DWP have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
The Head of Enterprise Security & Risk Management, under which this post sits and the current post holder will be delivering engagement sessions on Wednesday 11 March at 09:30 and Monday 16 March at 13:30 where you can find out more about this unique role and pose any questions you may have about it.
To book your place on an event please use either of the following links:
Head of Security Risk Engagement Session Tickets, Wed 11 Mar 2026 at 09:30 , Eventbrite
Head of Security Risk Engagement Session Tickets, Mon 16 Mar 2026 at 13:30 , Eventbrite
Process:
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