Human Risk Specialist

Requirements of the role

Division – Operations
Department – Cyber & Operational Resilience

Salary – National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £43,300 to £55,000 and London £46,400 to £60,000 per annum (Salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

The Cyber and Operational Resilience directorate is responsible for enabling secure and resilient regulation within the FCA and PSR – an organisation responsible for protecting all UK consumers and the UK financial market. This senior associate role sits in the People Risk team and is part of the wider Policy and Human Risk team within that directory. This role will play a key part in shaping our organisation’s security awareness approach to identifying and mitigating risks posed by human behaviour; while maintaining our team’s ethos of being friendly and approachable in order to foster positive relationships across the organisation

In this role, you will design and deliver an innovative security awareness programme that empowers employees to make informed security decisions, champion best practices, and navigate emerging cyber risks. You will design and implement creative strategies, training programmes, and engaging campaigns that influence behaviours, reduce vulnerabilities, and foster a culture of positivity and accountability. Collaborating with teams across the business, you will ensure that security awareness and managing human risk is a core part of our organisational practice, enabling us to stay ahead of emerging challenges. If you thrive on translating complex security concepts into engaging, actionable strategies, then this role is for you!

What will you be doing?

• Design and implement engaging initiatives to influence positive security behavioural change, helping employees understand and embrace their role in reducing organisational risk
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to assess human risk factors, evaluate vulnerabilities, and recommend customised solutions to mitigate risks effectively
• Establish an organisation wide training strategy aligned to the directorate’s core objectives and design risk and role-based training suites using change management principles, delivering training in-person sessions where required
• Work closely with the wider team and directorate to respond to emerging issues and knowledge gaps and find innovative solutions to address them
• Manage and mature the security ambassador programme by improving its structure, providing resources, and aligning it with human risk management goals
• Track the effectiveness of human risk initiatives using metrics, feedback, and incident data to continuously refine and improve strategies, while managing relationships with external training providers

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