International Cybersecurity Programme Delivery Lead Full Time

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

International Cybersecurity Programme Delivery Lead

Our international clients include government and defence organisations focussed on their national cyber mission. We have an exciting new opportunity for a Cyber Security Programme Delivery Lead with a strong understanding of cyber security strategy and operations, who can apply their knowledge and help customers implement their security strategy and improve their security operations.

About the job:

With strong stakeholder management and team leadership skills you will be leading teams and programmes of work comprising professional services and occasional technical deliveries. You will be good at seeing ‘the big picture’ gaining full value from using security data, monitoring tools and threat intelligence to re-enforce your insights. The role will be working with international government clients, primarily in their national security strategy and security operations functions. This may involve working in classified environments.

What you will be doing:

• With a strong understanding of security management, organisational structure and operations, you will identify and pull in appropriate skills to oversee delivery.
• Using your team leadership skills, for directing both senior and junior team members while supporting their development.
• Project management and complex stakeholder management.

• Accountable for the delivery of identified scope to time and budget, drawing on appropriate resources from within BAE Systems.
• Support sovereign capacity development of other nations in the areas of people, process and technology
• Establish and build relationships with stakeholders, including clients, beneficiaries and other funding nations. Donor coordination is a potential aspect of this.
• Managing the allocation of work between delivery partners and the assurance of their delivery in line with contractual and client expectations.
• Plan and deliver customer briefings and build consensus.
• Formulate strategy for improvements to security operations, skills, policies and governance, and communicate in business language to a range of stakeholders.
• Shaping and reporting on results and evaluation.
• Work with other teams within BAE to improve services on the basis of customer needs.

What experience are we looking for?

• Strong communications skills to drive projects and conduct complex stakeholder management simultaneously at multiple levels.
• Team leadership skills, providing direction for both senior and junior consultant team members while supporting their development.
• Excellent writing skills, concise documentation of results, evaluations and reports
• High degree of interpersonal skills and cultural awareness, necessary to establish and build relationships with stakeholders
• Strong and credible background with cybersecurity delivery across the range of people, process, technology and organisational improvements.

• Client side consulting, including complex stakeholder engagement including clients, beneficiaries and delivery partners
• Ability to communicate insights and concepts to others (including briefing skills and report writing).
• Coaching mindset: the role is not to do the job for the customers, but to mentor them to do it themselves.
• Able to understand and adapt to different cultures and hierarchical structures.
• This role will involve international travel for both short and occasional extended periods.

Other desirable skills could include:

• Understanding of threat Intelligence and its use in an operational environment
• Working with a range of security tooling/technology
• Support incident response to national scale incidents in a coaching capacity
• Training need analysis, training delivery and exercising
• Familiarity with national cyber indices such as Global Cybersecurity Index and CCMM
• Familiarity with cyber capacity building sponsored by funding nations.

How we will support you:

• Work-life balance is important; you’ll get 25 days holiday a year and, via our flexible benefits package the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
• Our flexible benefits package includes; private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more
• You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE Systems
• Don’t know a particular technology? Your learning and development is key to your future career
• You’ll be part of our bonus scheme
• You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups. These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and well being.

Security Clearance

Only those with the permanent and unrestricted right to live and work in the UK will be considered for a position within BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. Due to the nature of our work, successful candidates for this role will be required to go through Government security clearance at SC Level prior to starting with us. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-clearance

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Capabilities

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.

As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.

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