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These roles are central to building sustainable in-house expertise that supports the management, development and delivery of digital solutions across the transport network.\nAs a Compliance Lead within our Security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) function, you will play a key role in maintaining and strengthening National Highways’ security compliance capability. You will lead the Compliance workstream, providing direction and oversight to GRC Analysts and ensuring our compliance obligations are effectively assessed, monitored, reported and managed.\nWorking across Digital Services and the wider organisation, you will partner with senior leaders, technical teams, suppliers and specialist functions to provide expert advice on security compliance, regulatory requirements and control effectiveness. You will help ensure compliance gaps are clearly understood risks are appropriately managed and mitigating actions are driven through to completion.\nYou will be part of a newly forming capability engagement and management supply chain, working across change programmes and business-as-usual activity to embed effective security compliance practices. This is an opportunity to develop your expertise and influence within a growing security function while contributing to the resilience and security of a nationally significant organisation.\nThis is a hybrid role, requiring two days per week in the office, and can be based at any National Highways office location across the UK, with some travel to attend team meetings.\nSuccessful candidates will be required to hold or be willing to obtain SC clearance before starting employment. Five years’ UK residency is normally required for the vetting process, although individual circumstances will be considered as part of the recruitment process.\nLead and coordinate the Compliance workstream, providing direction, prioritisation and oversight to ensure high-quality outputs aligned with organisational and regulatory expectations.\nOversee security compliance assessments, audits and assurance reviews across systems, services and business areas, ensuring findings are evidence-based, actionable and appropriately managed.\nAct as a senior subject matter expert, providing specialist advice to programmes, projects, operational teams and senior leaders on security compliance obligations, control requirements and identified gaps.\nDevelop and deliver clear and accurate reporting on the organisation’s security compliance posture, highlighting trends, risks, gaps and recommendations for improvement.\nDrive the remediation of compliance gaps, working with control owners, system owners and business leaders to ensure actions are assigned, tracked and completed, escalating risks where appropriate.\nAbout you.\nExperience leading teams or workstreams within security governance, risk, compliance, audit or assurance, with the ability to prioritise activity and deliver through others.\nExperience leading or supporting security audits, risk assessments and assurance reviews, with the ability to evaluate controls, policies and evidence and produce clear findings.\nStrong understanding of cyber and information security principles, including security compliance requirements within a complex, multi-supplier environment.\nStrong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to interpret complex information and clearly communicate security risks and compliance requirements to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nKnowledge of UK public sector security and regulatory requirements, with the ability to stay current with relevant legislation, government requirements and recognised security frameworks.\nAbout us.\nHere at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.\nThe Digital Services Directorate is helping to reshape the way National Highways operates by delivering digital, data, and technology services across all areas, from frontline to back office, in a modern and efficient manner. 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