Job Title: Head of Information & Cyber Policy Management & Assurance
Location: Hybrid – Reading (2-3 days/week onsite, travel expensed)
Clearance: Active SC clearance required (minimum)
Contract Type: Inside IR35
Duration: 6 months
Start Date: ASAP

Overview:
We are supporting a strategically significant programme in the defence and national security space and are seeking a senior leader to take on the role of Head of Information & Cyber Policy Management & Assurance.

This contract role will lead information security and cyber policy governance at a programme level, ensuring frameworks, standards, and assurance activities are aligned with complex operational delivery and high-assurance requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and own the information and cyber policy strategy across a classified programme

• Set governance standards and oversee security assurance frameworks

• Lead audit, assessment, and compliance activities across multiple delivery streams

• Act as senior authority for policy interpretation, waivers, risk acceptance and exemptions

• Ensure alignment between policy, assurance, risk management, and engineering delivery

• Provide clear senior-level reporting on compliance status and security posture

• Engage confidently with stakeholders across cyber, engineering, assurance, and governance functions

• Drive continuous improvement in policy maturity and assurance consistency

Required Experience & Skills:

• Extensive experience leading cyber and information security policy and assurance functions

• Proven background operating at Head of / Senior Manager / Principal authority level

• Strong knowledge of risk-based governance, compliance, and assurance models

• Defence, government, or similarly regulated experience essential

• Comfortable balancing policy rigour with operational delivery in secure environments

• Strong communicator, capable of influencing at senior and executive levels

• Active SC clearance required (minimum)

If you have senior-level experience shaping and leading policy and assurance in secure, regulated environments and are available to start immediately, apply now for more information.