Human Risk Specialist
Division – Operations
Department – Cyber & Operational Resilience
Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £43,300 to £55,000 and London £46,400 to £60,000 per annum (Salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.
The Cyber and Operational Resilience directorate is responsible for enabling secure and resilient regulation within the FCA and PSR – an organisation responsible for protecting all UK consumers and the UK financial market. This senior associate role sits in the People Risk team and is part of the wider Policy and Human Risk team within that directory. This role will play a key part in shaping our organisation’s security awareness approach to identifying and mitigating risks posed by human behaviour; while maintaining our team’s ethos of being friendly and approachable in order to foster positive relationships across the organisation.
In this role, you will design and deliver an innovative security awareness programme that empowers employees to make informed security decisions, champion best practices, and navigate emerging cyber risks. You will design and implement creative strategies, training programmes, and engaging campaigns that influence behaviours, reduce vulnerabilities, and foster a culture of positivity and accountability. Collaborating with teams across the business, you will ensure that security awareness and managing human risk is a core part of our organisational practice, enabling us to stay ahead of emerging challenges. If you thrive on translating complex security concepts into engaging, actionable strategies, then this role is for you!
What will you be doing?
* Design and implement engaging initiatives to influence positive security behavioural change, helping employees understand and embrace their role in reducing organisational risk.
* Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to assess human risk factors, evaluate vulnerabilities, and recommend customised solutions to mitigate risks effectively.
* Establish an organisation-wide training strategy aligned to the directorate’s core objectives and design risk and role-based training suites using change management principles, delivering training in-person sessions where required.
* Work closely with the wider team and directorate to respond to emerging issues and knowledge gaps and find innovative solutions to address them.
* Manage and mature the security ambassador programme by improving its structure, providing resources, and aligning it with human risk management goals.
* Track the effectiveness of human risk initiatives using metrics, feedback, and incident data to continuously refine and improve strategies, while managing relationships with external training providers.
What will you get from the role?
* This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of an organisation whose vital work impacts every UK consumer.
* You will be part of a collaborative and innovative team, working every day to meet the challenges of an evolving cyber threat landscape and enable our colleagues to manage their own cyber risk.
* Creativity and innovation are two core team values and challenging the status quo to ensure that security needs are met is an important aspect of this role.
* You’ll gain an excellent strategic understanding of what the workings of the FCA and work in an interesting and friendly and supportive environment.
* An opportunity to broaden your professional and personal technical skills and knowledge.
Which skills are required?
We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here)
Minimum
* Evidence of driving culture change within an organisation and influencing others at a range of levels.
* Experience in designing, building and delivering staff training e.g. mandatory training or bespoke training for technical and non-technical audiences.
* Experience in producing metrics and reporting.
Essential
* Experience in delivering innovative and creative campaigns, translating technical topics for a range of audiences and balancing serious topics with a friendly approach.
* Superb communications skills including written effective influence across diverse audiences.
* Proactive and outstanding organisational skills, including the ability to manage a variety of competing tasks to tight deadlines.
* Innovative and creative problem-solving skills.
* Good understanding of cyber security landscape.
* Proven experience or qualifications in Communications, Behavioural Change or role specific qualifications such as SANS Security Awareness Practitioner or equivalent.
Our Values & Diversity
We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.
Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work/life balance and support our diversity ambitions.
Did you know? 50% of our Executive Committee were the first in their family to attend university.
The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisation. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, minority ethnic, disabled, and neurodivergent candidates for our senior associate role.
Benefits of working at the FCA
* 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays.
* Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time).
* Private healthcare with Bupa.
* A non-contributory Pension of at least 8%.
* Life assurance.
* Income protection.
We also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.
We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we can explore what might work best for both sides.
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Application Support
We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.
If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.
Useful Information and Timeline
* This role is graded as: Senior Associate – Corporate.
* Advert Closing Date: 11th February 2025.
* First Round Case Study & Competency Interview: From 19th February.
Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.
Got a question?
If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact:
* For internal applicants, please contact Sara Holland at Sara.Holland2@fca.org.uk.
* For external applicants, please contact Ifrah Azam at Ifrah.Azam@fca.org.uk.
Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.
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