Assistant Director of Cyber Security, Governance, Compliance & Risk

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Other

  Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.

• Other

  Team working skills.

• Other

  Ability to move between details and the bigger picture.

• Other

  Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.

• Other

  Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.

• Other

  Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.

• Other

  Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.

• Other

  Interpreting national policy for implementation.

• Knowledge

  Highly developed and expert knowledge of digital best practice and procedures.

• Knowledge

  Excellent understanding of information security and information governance.

• Knowledge

  Extensive working knowledge of current practices and issues in the cyber field.

• Knowledge

  Strong communication skills and the ability to negotiate, influence and facilitate effective interaction with key stakeholders and suppliers.

• Knowledge

  Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.

• Knowledge

  Good presentation skills for conveying complex concepts.

• Knowledge

  Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.

• Knowledge

  Able to communication complex technical information to not technical people using simple, explanatory language that is understandable.

• Experience

  Extensive experience of both imputing into and formulating short, medium and long term strategic plans and policies.

• Experience

  Extensive experience of project and change management skills and/or techniques.

• Experience

  Extensive experience of all aspects of people management, from recruitment to dealing with disciplinary matters.

• Experience

  Substantial experience of working to tight KPI’s/targets with the ability to work well under pressure to achieve these.

• Experience

  Experience of working in a large and complex multi-tiered environment.

• Experience

  Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.

• Experience

  Previous experience of strategy planning and development for IT architectures.

• Experience

  Extensive experience of cyber/architectural analysis, design, development, procurement and deployment.

• Experience

  Extensive knowledge of IT infrastructures, systems and management processes acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level or equivalent.

• Experience

  Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.

• Experience

  Broad and detailed knowledge of IT infrastructure, architecture, software and systems.

• Experience

  A firm understanding of design, optimisation, deployment and management processes of network and hardware infrastructures.

• Experience

  Knowledge and experience of development architecture life cycles and governance processes.

• Experience

  Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare and appreciate the implications of this on engagement

• Experience

  Should have an appreciation of the relationship between NHS England, commissioning, provider and support organisations.

• Experience

  Good concentration skills, required to concentrate for prolonged periods to analyse highly complex IT information and meet multiple demands on an ongoing and daily basis

• Experience

  Ability to work out-side normal office hours and participate on an on-call rota.

• Competencies

  Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Competencies

  Exceptional communication skills in order to convey highly complex and highly sensitive digital / cyber issues to a non-digital / cyber audience

• Competencies

  Good judgement necessary to choose the best solution from complex architectures with a range of options.

• Competencies

  Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.

• Competencies

  Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.

• Competencies

  Acknowledged as an expert in cyber security.

• Qualifications

  Minimum of a Masters degree level qualification relevant to the role or demonstrable equivalent level of experience.

• Qualifications

  Specialist cyber related qualification.