Security Compliance Manager

This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

We are looking for a strategic, detail-oriented individual to join our team as a Security Compliance Manager. Your responsibilities will include assessing potential security threats or breaches and creating a security contingency risk assessment plan to reduce any likelihood of such a breach. The post holder will work as part of the Facilities Directorate Security team and provide a reliable in-house provision for events on campus involving students, staff and invited guests.

Security Services offers a wide range of support to the students and has commenced a programme of innovation and development to enhance the current service, security assets and infrastructure. It will do this by co-creating improved ways of working, processes, and systems to ensure wider University goals and strategies are reached, whilst ensuring a full and robust review of processes, ways of working and the use of technology. This will ensure that the department remains fit for purpose, effective and efficient.

As Security Compliance Manager, you will play a key role in shaping the department’s future planning of events and in considering building security risk assessments and security plans, managing risks in collaboration with the Head of Service and wider Facilities Management.

You will be responsible for advising on relevant security plans and security risk assessments of Faculty/ School buildings, in relation to conferencing and for Leeds Student University Union planned or spontaneous events. This will include assessing future security planning, managing identified risks and issues, and providing accurate and articulate reports on their progress.

You will also be required to undertake regular reviews of the ongoing use of systems to ensure they continue to be used in accordance with intended purpose, that we identify ongoing innovations and improvements and that they are being well managed and maintained.

A Security Compliance Manager, you will have relevant experience in managing security events and complex projects, with the ability to apply best practice methodologies and successfully deliver high profile projects, including managing risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and changes on a project. You will understand the HE environment and will be able to challenge accepted norms.

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

For research and academic posts, we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/global-talent

What we offer:

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme plus life assurance– the University contributes 14.5% of salary
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Geoff Brown, Head of Community Safety & Campus Security.

Email: g.brown1@leeds.ac.uk

Please see details of the University’s Pre-employment Health Assessment within the Candidate Brief.

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