• Strategy and Operations Director
• Policing Policy Director
• Crime Director

These positions are part of the Senior Civil Service (SCS) Pay band 2 and offer a salary of £105,000 per year.

Job Summary

The PSG is a critical part of the Home Office, responsible for public safety and national security. We are looking for experienced leaders to join our team and contribute to the development and implementation of policies and strategies that promote public safety and reduce crime.

Responsibilities

Strategy and Operations Director

• Lead the central strategy, risk, corporate, and coordination functions in PSG
• Strengthen alignment between PSG strategy, finance, and people to ensure effective resource deployment
• Deliver spend within budget and achieve workforce targets
• Shape and cohere PSG's key strategic discussions and products
• Provide locally delivered corporate functions, including security, accommodation, and health and safety

Policing Policy Director

• Oversee the governance, accountability, and structures of policing
• Ensure the police have the powers and tools to maintain public order
• Direct personal accountability for the Neighbourhood Policing Programme
• Policy and delivery of reforms to local policing structures
• Oversee the PSG Emergency Response Team

Crime Director

• Lead the Government's strategic approach to reducing crime and protecting the public
• Drive critical government priorities to reduce crime and improve public safety
• Build and lead effective cross-government and external partnerships
• Focus on crime prevention, particularly for young people
• Lead the Home Office's strategic approach to drugs

Person Specification

Essential Criteria:

• First-rate strategic and systems leadership skills
• Exceptional political judgement and ability to build strong relationships with ministers
• Experience of delivering and leading at pace and getting things done under pressure
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Significant track record of visible and results-focused leadership

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of policing, crime, and criminal justice issues
• Experience of leading in crisis

Benefits

• Salary of £105,000 per year
• Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Learning and development opportunities
• Flexible working options
• Culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

How to Apply

To apply, please submit your CV and Statement of Suitability by 23:55hrs on Sunday 1st November 2026.

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The Senior Evidence Manager will be part of the team responsible for ensuring that all the relevant material reviewed over the course of the Inquiry is made available to the Inquiry’s Legal Team. The role involves supporting day-to-day evidence management activity, including provision of technical expertise and training to users of the evidence management system.

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to the Evidence and Information Management Team and wider Chief Operating Officer’s team
• Proactively building capability across the Inquiry, through user education and training
• Implementing robust procedures to ensure evidence from material providers is transferred to the Inquiry securely and effectively
• Enabling the Inquiry’s counsel and legal team to interrogate vast quantities of evidential material
• Line managing an Evidence Manager and conducting regular performance reviews

The post is being offered on a 12 months’ basis in order to complete a finite piece of work.

Working pattern: Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.

Location: The role is available in City of London, Greater London, England; Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England.

The Inquiry will provide staff with training on Safeguarding and Trauma.

Benefits:

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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The Inquiry will examine group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse, with a mandate to understand what happened, why institutional failings allowed it to continue, and what must change to protect children in the future.

The Evidence Manager will be part of the team responsible for ensuring that all the relevant material reviewed over the course of the Inquiry is made available to the Inquiry’s Legal Team in line with the Inquiries Act and Inquiry Rules, that the Inquiry complies with GDPR, the Data Protection Act and ECHR Article 8 in handling significant volumes of sensitive material, and that the Inquiry’s official report and records are archived in line with the Act and Rules.

Responsibilities

• Evidence management.
• Implementing robust procedures to ensure evidence from material providers is transferred to the Inquiry securely and effectively. Liaising with system suppliers and other internal and external stakeholders on changes to the database or the Inquiry’s requirements, as directed.
• Developing an understanding of how the Inquiry’s evidence management system is administered and operates, creating appropriate documentation and user guides; provision of ad hoc advice as required by internal and external stakeholders.
• Enabling the Inquiry’s counsel and legal team to interrogate vast quantities of evidential material from multiple providers, ensuring evidential continuity; and to disclose and publish relevant materials in support of Core Participant access, hearings, and report publication.
• Supporting strategic and secure management of the Inquiry’s evidence management system and transfer platform, including co-ordinating with material providers, providing assurance where necessary, in order to efficiently obtain potentially evidential material.
• Service delivery: Checking the Disclosure mailbox at regular intervals and reaching a ‘next steps’ decision for every email. Taking ownership of all emails and actioning/responding as appropriate. Escalating emails to managers or suppliers where necessary.
• Evidence intake: Identifying, logging, processing and transferring all disclosure from material providers. Creating new secure file transfer zones and sharing with managers, legal teams and material providers as required.

Person specification

• Essential criteria:
• A good technical knowledge of document/evidence management technology.
• Having a problem-solving attitude, including experience of providing innovative, technical solutions, handling large datasets.
• Being an effective communicator, able to engage with different audiences and colleagues at all levels, including at the most senior, and ability to build relationships across functions.
• Desirable criteria:
• Experience in a public Inquiry or organisation requiring similar levels of data review and preservation.
• Experience of providing support and advice to an organisation on records matters OR experience of working in a legal environment.

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working.

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As a Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager in the Secure by Design team, you will identify, understand and mitigate cyber-related risks. You will evaluate the risks to our critical national infrastructure and business critical systems and use your expertise to draw on a range of evidence to proactively advise stakeholders, enabling well-informed, risk-based decision making.

You’ll be joining an expert team of cyber professionals, committed to reducing the exposure to cyber-attack of new and existing digital systems. You’ll be aided in your role by a diverse and supportive organisational culture, and a commitment to further your continuous development.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office.

Job description

The Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager supports, plans and develops the implementation and management of organisation-wide processes and procedures for the management, assurance or governance of cyber risk. They will provide tailored expert support and advice that highlights cyber security risks to a range of stakeholders, projects, business teams and service owners, helping them to remedy identified risks by enabling well-informed and auditable decisions, using published guidance and standards, and drawing on a range of experts as well as personal expertise.

As the Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager working within the Secure by Design team, your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Independently and impartially undertaking risk management activities within a given area of practice or expertise, usually within established security and risk management governance structures.
• Developing risk management-related policy and assure the ongoing appropriateness of policy in accordance with regulation and wider organisational and government policies.
• Promote the adoption of Secure by Design principles, standards and best practices across business and technology teams, influencing all stakeholders to make risk-informed decisions that enhance cyber security outcomes while enabling delivery objectives.
• Managing risk management processes, reviewing their efficiency and effectiveness, and leading recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Assessing reviews and risk assessments and ensuring identified risks are managed in accordance with Home Office risk management policies.

Person specification

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for Cyber Security with the following skills or experience in:

• Information or cyber security including threat and risk analysis for complex, high-risk and/or mission critical systems, preferably involving the Home Office, Cabinet Office, NCSC or within industry Security Operations Centres (SOCs) and departments.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor a diverse team of governance, risk or assurance specialists.
• Proficiency analysing or implementing technical or security policies in a large organisation.
• Ability to champion cybersecurity risk and ensure ongoing appropriateness or practices.
• Demonstrable experience embedding Secure by Design principles into programmes, products, services or technology solutions.
• The ability to drive cultural and operational change through awareness campaigns, leadership engagement, upskilling initiatives and influencing, persuading and building consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £62,732, Home Office contributes £18,173 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. Some of the primary ones are:

• A Civil Service Pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
• 8 days of public holidays, plus 1 additional privilege day.

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The postholder provides enterprise-wide leadership and second-line assurance over cyber risk management, policy, standards and reporting, ensuring cyber risk is understood, owned and managed proportionately across the organisation.

The role has leadership responsibility for the heads of governance, risk, compliance, business management, strategy and professional practice functions, ensuring the delivery of an integrated, high-performing capability that supports Home Office cyber security objectives.

The role leads capability planning, recruitment, career pathways and deployment of cyber professionals across Product Family Groups and Platforms, so the right skills and capacity are aligned to service criticality, delivery priorities and the threat landscape.

Main Responsibilities:

• Owning and evolving the cyber security GRC and cyber practice strategy, ensuring alignment with Home Office priorities, Digital First Transformation Programme and cross government policy.
• Providing strategic leadership of second line cyber risk and assurance, including setting assurance priorities, aggregating and analysing enterprise cyber risk, and reporting clear, actionable insights to senior leadership and governance forums.
• Setting, maintaining and assuring enterprise cyber security policies, standards, frameworks and reusable patterns, ensuring they are proportionate, risk based and consistently applied across Product Family Groups and Platforms.
• Owning the cyber reporting framework, including defining metrics, dashboards and management information to support effective oversight of cyber risk, maturity and performance.
• Leading the cyber security professional practice, including capability and workforce planning, recruitment, standards, career pathways, professional assurance and succession planning.
• Building and sustaining strong, trusted relationships with senior business, digital, technology and security leaders across the Home Office and wider government.

Person Specification:

• Demonstrable passion for cyber security, with proven experience operating at enterprise scale, and the ability to lead complex governance, risk and professional practice functions.
• Experience in providing senior leadership for a large cyber security function, setting clear vision, strategy and operating models aligned to organisational priorities and government policy.
• Influencing senior leaders and decisionmakers across business, digital, technology and security functions to embed effective cyber governance and risk ownership.
• Providing authoritative advice, assurance and constructive challenge on cyber security matters at executive and board level.

Benefits:

• Salary of £90,000 - £105,000 per year
• Employer contribution of £26,073 towards Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• Flexible working options
• Culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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The postholder provides enterprise-wide leadership and assurance over cyber operations, ensuring threats are detected and addressed, incidents are handled effectively, and cyber risk to critical services is understood, prioritised and reduced in line with business priorities and risk appetite.

Key responsibilities:

• Setting and maintaining the enterprise strategy and operating model for cyber operations, aligned to the overall Home Office cyber security strategy, threat intelligence, risk appetite and business priorities.
• Providing senior leadership, assurance and line management across cyber operations, including protective monitoring, threat management, vulnerability management, incident response, security testing and human cyber risk management.
• Leading an integrated cyber operations community across the Home Office, including the future line management and leadership of cyber leads operating across Policing, Migration and Corporate business areas.
• Ensuring cyber operational tools and platforms deliver decision-grade insight to support senior leaders and effective management of cyber risk.
• Overseeing enterprise incident management arrangements, including preparedness, response and continuous improvement following incidents.

The role requires experience of setting and delivering enterprise cyber operations strategy and operating models aligned to organisational priorities and risk appetite, leading enterprise cyber capabilities, and leading organisational responses to major cyber incidents.

The salary for this role is GBP 90,000 - 105,000 per year.

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