Senior Insider Risk Strategy Manager

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Personnel Security & Insider Threat Monitoring Group (PSITMG)

PSITMG is a nationwide, multidisciplinary team working together to deliver our strategic objective: to proactively monitor, analyse and investigate insider risks and threats. In doing so, we directly support DWP Security’s mission to safeguard an effective national welfare system and embed government security in ways that protect people, services and wider society.

We sit within the Cyber Resilience Centre in DWP’s Security and Data Protection Directorate and bring together a range of specialist functions, including personnel security maturity, national security vetting, overseas assurance, leak investigations, internal abuse monitoring and Private Office Security partnering. As a single integrated function, we provide the insight, capability and operational resilience needed to protect the Department from insider activity and strengthen its overall personnel security posture.

The Insider Risk Strategy Team

The Insider Risk Strategy Team plays a central role in strengthening DWP’s ability to prevent, detect and manage insider risk. The team works across the organisation to build personnel security maturity, improving compliance with standards, strengthening governance, and driving improvements that help the Department operate securely and confidently. Our work brings together capability development, proactive risk management and close collaboration with operational and corporate teams to ensure that personnel security is embedded throughout the employee lifecycle.

There are two Senior Insider Risk Strategy Manager roles which report to the Head of insider Risk Strategy Team. The Senior Insider Risk Strategy Manager may lead/manage a team of Civil Servants and 3rd party contract resources. They undertake a range of activities that support and develop activities undertaken across PSITMG.

These roles play a central part in strengthening DWP’s personnel security maturity and enhancing the Department’s ability to prevent, detect and manage insider risk. As practitioners within PSITMG, you will help shape and drive a coherent personnel security programme, supporting effective governance, assurance and new initiatives that align with NPSA and cross‑government best practice.

Success in the role relies on building trusted relationships across DWP and the wider security community, ensuring that personnel security activity is well‑connected, understood and consistently applied. You will help the group operate as a unified, resilient and capable function by supporting the development of a collaborative team culture, encouraging shared learning and enabling staff to work flexibly across disciplines.

Key Responsibilities include :

Programme & Assurance

• Lead and coordinate DWP’s Personnel Security Maturity Programme to enhance insider risk management, applying programme and project approaches to improve service delivery and embed lasting improvements.
• Drive and coordinate the delivery of Role-Based Risk Assessments (RBRA), using a structured, data-driven approach to identify high-trust roles and implement proportionate, evidence-based insider risk controls in partnership with stakeholders
• Oversee PSITMG’s assurance agenda, integrating key assessments and audit recommendations into a coordinated delivery approach.

Governance & Reporting

• Lead secretariat activity for personnel security and insider risk governance boards, ensuring they are well‑planned, well‑run and decision‑focused, with clear actions that support programme delivery.
• Ensure governance structures follow personnel security and insider risk best practice, including establishing and supporting new groups where required.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and help develop a community of professionals with shared objectives, strengthening collaboration and consistency across DWP.
• Oversee the coordination and refinement of insider risk management information for senior leaders, enabling informed decision‑making across the Department

People & Capability

• Support career pathway development and oversee training and learning activity to ensure staff have clear progression routes and appropriate opportunities to build expertise.
• Help build a positive, collaborative group culture by encouraging open information‑sharing, coordinating activities that bring the team together, and turning feedback (including People Survey results) into meaningful improvements that strengthen how we work.
• Support an environment that encourages innovation, continuous learning and staff wellbeing, contributing to the development of people and process capabilities and the effective use of technology to improve PSITMG service delivery.

Business Operations

• Manage and coordinate Information Asset Management and related asset requirements for PSITMG, ensuring compliance with organisational and security standards.
• Support the development of data‑use strategies and Data Protection Impact Assessments that underpin service improvements and strengthen PSITMG’s investigative and monitoring capabilities.
• Manage and develop business cases, financial requests and procurement activity for PSITMG, ensuring strong governance, compliance and accurate reporting.
• Lead PSITMG’s end‑to‑end resourcing activity by coordinating recruitment campaigns and maintaining the group’s resource baseline and associated activities

Resilience & Surge Support

• Build resilience across PSITMG by developing cross‑functional knowledge and providing surge support during peaks in demand, staff absence or vacancies.
• Support priority activities and contribute to wider security tasks as needed such as vetting, investigations and Private Office security business partnering when required.

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