Total 6 Manager level Legal / Public / Security job vacancies in Edinburgh, EH1 1YJ

Your new company
Our client is a very well established, international Legal firm. They are currently looking for an experienced PA to lead the secretarial functions across Scotland.

Your new role
This role can be based out of either the Edinburgh or Glasgow offices, both located within the city centre with travel required across the country. You will be supporting 27 Personal Assistants across 3 offices, implementing best practices and ensuring everything is in order to maximise client service. You will act as the key point of contact between Executive teams, the PAs and Head of Secretarial Services for the UK, liaising with management to comment on continuous improvements and issue resolution to ensure administrative support and resources are aligned with delivering a high quality of services.

You will work closely with the PAs in Scotland, hosting one-to-one meetings and performance reviews, ensuring they have appropriate resources to complete their tasks effectively. You will implement their training plans and outline development opportunities, ensuring the correct support is available and training is completed on time. Recruitment and HR activities will also be a key aspect of your new role.

An additional aspect of the role is providing PA support to up to 3 partners within the business, delivering high-quality support to the fee earners, ensuring their team and daily plans are well managed to achieve optimal business outcomes. This will include diary and inbox management, travel arrangement, financial and general administration, and project support.

You will be working Monday to Friday on a hybrid basis, again, with travel required between offices as and when required.

What you'll need to succeed

• Demonstrated PA and supervisory experience.
• Experience within the Legal sector or Professional Services is beneficial.
• A focussed and organised approach to stakeholder management.
• The ability to enable effective team work.
• Time management and the ability to handily a varied, fast-paced workload.
• Communication skills; both verbal and written.

What you'll get in return

• Hybrid working (3 office-based days per week).
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays.
• Holiday buy & sell opportunities.
• Discretionary annual bonus.
• Life Assurance 4x annual salary.
• Income Protection Policy.
• Matched pension contribution of 5%.
• Critical Illness Cover.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Wellbeing subsidy of £180 per year.
• One day off per year for volunteering.
• Private Medical Insurance & Occupational Health.
• Employee Assistant Programme.
• Social events throughout the year.
• Opportunity to get involved in DE&I projects and inclusion groups.
• Supportive and friendly culture.
• Career progression opportunities.

What you need to do now
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Join us as our Head of Group Public Policy Research & Political Risk

• This is a varied and engaging role in which you’ll be responsible for supporting your function and wider business with policy development, political horizon scanning, political engagement and the identification of political risk
• You’ll be working with senior stakeholders and leading a highly skilled team, continually driving the identification and mitigation of potential risks
• Your work will have an enormous impact as you’ll develop and implement our centre of expertise regarding political policy, research and risk

What you'll do

As our Head of Group Public Policy Research & Political Risk, you’ll be responsible for driving the development of policy interventions. In doing so, you’ll develop our strategic approach for the use of lobbying governments and politicians across the UK. You’ll be expected to stay abreast of the key political policy areas of the day in order to develop our policy positions across a number of areas.

In addition to this, you’ll be responsible for:

• The horizon scanning of key issues covering policy and political risk
• Identifying any political risks we might face before developing mitigating actions
• Developing research materials to support regional board communications, influencer engagement and the Levelling Up agenda
• Developing simple, accessible materials on our strategy and purpose for external use

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with the ability to deliver clear, well researched materials for external parties covering our strategy. As such, you’ll be able to deal with highly sensitive and confidential materials.

Along with an understanding of our wider strategy, you’ll have the ability to research complex political policies and how they affect us and our customers.

You will also need a contacts book, the desire to build that contacts book and the willingness to engage with politicians and officials on an ongoing and out of hours basis.

We’re also looking for:

• The ability to build strong and widespread relationships across the bank
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate innovative solutions to potential risks
• Effective leadership skills to manage a highly skilled, experienced and well connected team
• The ability to lobby government on areas of political policy and risk that affect us

Join us as an Audit Manager within Infrastructure and Cyber Security

• We’re looking for someone who can provide effective assurance for regular audit engagements while working in Technology, Infrastructure and Cyber Security
• You’ll be influencing business managers to improve controls while being an ambassador for the internal audit to build on our reputation and improve our function’s integrity
• If you’re ready for a new challenge and want to make an impact through your work by helping with our internal audit, this could be the opportunity you’re looking for

What you’ll do

Day-to-day, you’ll be leading your audit team as they deliver audit engagements on time and to budget while undertaking key aspects of assurance fieldwork and supporting assurance planning.

We’ll look to you to leverage internal audit methodology and tools. You’ll also make sure that our global methodology is fully compliant and accurate. That way the audit management tool is up-to-date. You’ll also build on our internal audit position and influence our evolution of control.

Your other responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the delivery of a flexible and risk-based audit plan that addresses regulatory requirements and provides independent assurance and impactful opinions
• Supervising the audit engagement team while supporting them through coaching to help them realise their potential
• Assuring regular audit engagements by supporting assurance planning to make sure key risks are covered while collaborating with internal audit teams in line with regulatory requirements
• Undertaking key aspects of assurance fieldwork while taking responsibility for work across the team so it’s delivered on time and provides reliable evidence to support issues and opinions
• Managing key stakeholders throughout audit engagements to understand business risks and to make sure effective discussion is undertaken about key risks

The skills you’ll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll be an established internal auditor or risk manager. We’ll expect you to understand risk management principles through a meticulously investigative approach. You’ll also have good written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills.

You’ll be able to successfully lead a team in delivering projects while adhering to budget, schedule and quality. You’ll also support your team by identifying talent, coaching and feedback.

You’ll also need:

• Excellent knowledge of IT general controls
• Outstanding subject matter expertise and experience of technology risk management in infrastructure or cyber security
• Great knowledge of technology service operation either as an IT auditor or an IT practitioner

Job Description

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Event and Public Safety Operations Manager
City Chambers

Salary: £50,550 - £60,506
Hours: 36 per week

The City of Edinburgh Council is looking for a motivated, innovative and dynamic leader to take on the role of Event and Public Safety Operations Manager. Edinburgh is the leading festival and events city and this role offers a unique opportunity to be at the heart of how it all works.

This role offers the opportunity to lead the team that looks after event planning for all major events and sports grounds in the City. Responsible for a small, but dedicated team of professional officers, the successful candidate will need to work with colleagues across the Council and with external stakeholders nationally and internationally to maintain and develop Edinburgh’s reputation as a vibrant, safe and sustainable world leading cultural capital.

• Develop and implement a work programme for the event and venues team, aligning this with the Council’s Culture Plan and Council Business Plan priorities.
• Lead and deliver event planning and operational management for all large and major events in the city, with a particular focus on event safety. This will include providing expert advice on event and venue safety, including best practice, guidance and appropriate legislation frameworks.
• Manage a team of specialist officers to ensure venues and events in Edinburgh are consistently advised to a high standard on how to operate safely. Ensure that workload is managed effectively and that team members are supported.
• Monitor the Event Operations budget, developing an annual programme of operational priorities and project managing their delivery within the available funding/timescales, in accordance with the Council’s financial regulations and demonstrating best value.
• Contract management for physical security contractors to ensure crowded spaces are protected appropriately, in accordance with the Council’s Procurement rules, and liaise with the relevant council teams to ensure works are coordinated.
• Chair Event Planning and Operation Group and Safety Advisory Group meetings for high-profile events and represent the Council in these meetings.
• Lead, on behalf of the Council, the planning and delivery of large events in the city, escalate issues and making recommendations to senior managers if issues arise and/or following events.
• Manage and coordinate council resources during event delivery, acting as the Council’s Tactical (Silver) Commander for large public events if required).
• Develop, enhance and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders and colleagues, to ensure effective management of city event operations.
• Provide advice to the Council’s licensing service in relation to event and venue safety, providing reports and attending the Licensing Sub Committee as required.
• To initiate, develop and manage the implementation of new approaches to event planning and operations.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

Requirements

We're 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 that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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Role: Security Engineering Assistant ManagerFunction: CISOLocation: Hybrid working – EdinburghSalary: Competitive plus excellent benefitsClosing Date: 2 July 2024
At TSB, we’re transforming the service we provide our customers, and technology will be at the forefront of that change.
It’s an exciting transformation and we’re investing in an enhanced in-house capability to deliver it – so, if you’re a forward-looking and innovative IT professional, this is your opportunity to be in on the ground floor and help us build the future of banking.

How you’ll make a difference The Security Assistant Manager will be the involved in the deployment, configuration and management of a diverse suite of essential security controls for the Bank. You’ll collaborate with teams of security and technical specialists along with cloud and infrastructure service providers to ensure quality service and delivery. In addition, you’ll support cyber security staff from a technical SME perspective. You’ll also define security deliverables to project and change initiatives during early engagement, direct to approved architectural patterns, support and guide through implementation and validate the solution as part of certification prior to go-live.

What you’ll bring
- Preferably educated to a degree level or above in an Information Security related discipline or equivalent work experience.
- Proven and repeatable experience implementing and managing security tooling suites covering areas such as EDPR, SIEM, DDoS, WAF, Micro-Segmentation along with Web/Email controls.
- Subject matter expert level experience of at least two of the above areas.
- Significant hands on experience with the m365 / Entra specifically Enterprise Apps, MDCA, App Registration, Defender suite
- Experience managing and maintaining the smooth running of the Security tooling services and implementing changes in line with IT Service Management processes.
- Experience in the financial services sector.
- Ability to work in a constantly changing and fast past environment, switching between different change activities.
- Ability to support the execution of the relevant controls associated with the tooling suites under your management.
- Familiarity with a number of core security domains: IAM & PAM / Infrastructure / Cloud / Cryptography / Application / Data / SecOps.
What we offer in return
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support a healthy work/life bal-ance.
- An attractive reward and myTSB benefits package, giving you more of what matters to you.
- A diverse, energising and collaborative working environment.
- A truly inclusive organisation that values difference, where everyone feels wel-come and has access to equal opportunities.
- A career that’s enriching and full of opportunities. If this sounds right up your street, come and join our team. We make things happen!

We are TSB. Life Made More

Join us as a Quality Manager, Security

• We’ll look to you to provide direction and leadership on all quality matters across the platform or domain including adoption and compliance with the bank's standards and policies
• This is an opportunity to act as a key contributor in making sure that work packages transition seamlessly from development into live environments
• Hone your knowledge of quality best practices and collaboration and stakeholder management skills

What you'll do

In this key role, you’ll be making sure that only well designed and built work packages get through quality testing. You’ll aim to get it right first time for our customers through innovative service and solutions, using automation as an accelerator and working closely with stakeholders in an Agile and collaborative environment. We’ll also look to you to produce comprehensive and robust quality strategies and detailed quality test plans, enabling the continual flow of work packages across the domain, platform value stream or programme.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Taking accountability for all aspects of quality across both run and change and business as usual activity within the assigned platform or domain
• Overseeing the output quality from all testing phases owned and making sure it meets the requirements of each quality test strategy
• Making sure defects are detected and prioritised, based on impact, and resolved at the earliest possible moment and before the last responsible moment
• Undertaking end-to-end test management including planning, risk, issue, dependency management, lessons learnt and governance
• Reviewing all key collateral relating to delivery and making sure it is of sufficient quality and with no gaps or duplication

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with strong knowledge and understanding of quality standards, quality best practices, and our risk and controls framework. You’ll also need high levels of knowledge and demonstrable application of modern testing and quality practices and techniques used with Agile methodologies.

Additionally, we’ll be looking for:

• Practical experience of quality strategy and planning, testing design and execution
• Experience in functional and non-functional testing such as system, system integration, user, load, volume, stress, security, accessibility, compatibility, penetration and back-out
• The ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature, platform, domain and enterprise teams, with a strong focus on business outcomes
• The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and management
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Experience in information security domain
• Familiarity with No Code or low code testing, Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development and DevSecOps