Senior Information Security Officer

Job description

Contract Terms

Starting salary: PO5 (£52,194 – £55,323) – PO6 (£54,267 – £57,402)
Work location: Hybrid 
Hours per week: 36 per week, full time 
Contract type: Permanent  
Closing date: Sunday, 8th March 2026
Expected interview date: w/c 16th March 2026

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to take on a senior position at the heart of Haringey Council’s cyber and information security capability. As our Senior Information Security Officer, you will play a leading role in safeguarding the council’s digital estate, driving the maturity of our security posture, and ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our information assets across a complex, modern, cloud based environment.

You will lead on the assessment, implementation and continual improvement of security controls, steering the development of our ISO27001 Information Security Management System and supporting our progression against the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF). You will oversee the investigation of major security incidents, coordinate incident response activity, and provide authoritative insight and guidance to senior leaders, project teams, and technical specialists across the organisation.

Working closely with the Security & Compliance Manager, you will contribute strategically to key council programmes — including digital transformation initiatives, data driven service design, cloud optimisation and the roll out of modern workplace technologies. You will champion secure by design principles and influence decision making across Digital Services, ensuring that security remains at the forefront of organisational priorities.

About the Team

You will join a small but highly skilled Information Security function within our wider Digital Services team. Digital Services has grown significantly over the last two years to support increased project demand, system modernisation, and data driven decision making. With this growth comes a heightened need for strong, proactive security oversight—which is where you come in.

Reporting to the Security & Compliance Manager, you’ll collaborate closely with colleagues across all areas of Digital Services, from apprentices and analysts to senior technical leads, and work directly with the Chief Executive, Councillors, service managers, and external partners. We foster a supportive environment built on continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and professional development.

About You

You are an experienced information security professional with the confidence, technical depth and leadership qualities to influence decision making across a large and diverse organisation. You combine strong analytical skills with the ability to communicate complex security issues in clear, actionable terms.

You will bring:
•    Substantial experience in information security 
•    Strong hands-on experience with ISO27001, ideally including responsibility for maintaining or improving an Information Security Management System
•    A sound understanding of the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) 
•    Expertise in incident management
•    A comprehensive understanding of GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018 
•    Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
•    Experience operating at SFIA Level 5 (Ensure/Advise) 
•    A proactive, analytical and improvement focused mindset, with strong attention to detail and the ability to work independently on complex issues.

Professional certifications such as CISM, CISSP, CCSK, or equivalent are highly desirable. We also welcome applicants who are working towards these qualifications and demonstrate a commitment to ongoing professional development.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk