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We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social, and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

Over the last 18 months, we have reimagined the way we deliver our University IT Services, building a world-class IT department responsive to the needs of our global community. We’re growing significantly and we’ve created new opportunities and made changes to how we work. Our people have been at the centre of this change, with a particular focus on development and opportunities to learn new skills.

We are investing significantly in an expanded team of cyber security professionals. We are now looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated undergraduate student for a 12-13 month placement before their final year of study, based in the Cyber Security Team, commencing no later than 19th September 2022.

This student placement role will assist in protecting the University from cyber security threats to minimise or eliminate the impact of such threats on the University’s activities.

You will work closely with cyber security professionals and other IT Service colleagues in providing a pro-active cyber security function to the University. The work is varied and will offer you a broad range of experience and training, with the opportunity to develop valuable technical and interpersonal skills.

The University is an exciting and dynamic place to work, dedicated to world-leading education and research. Benefits include excellent pension; flexible working options; 25 days holiday, eight bank holidays plus an additional four discretionary closure days over the Christmas and New Year; discounted travel for the Metro and local bus services; and discounts for national retailers. You can find out more on our benefits web page.

We are committed to building and maintaining a fair and inclusive working environment and we would be happy to discuss arrangements for flexible and/or blended working.

Any job offer will be subject to the successful completion of HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard pre-employment security screening.

The Role

Key Accountabilities

Security Response and Investigation
- Assist with managing University cyber security incidents from incident inception to resolution or mitigation, ensuring the impact to the University’s activities is as far as possible minimised or eliminated
- Assist with monitoring and respond to cyber security threats and alerting generated by cyber security and related tooling
Security Policy, Compliance and Risk Management
- Provide advice and recommendations on the technical aspects of cyber security compliance and supplier due diligence
Secure Computing
- Assist in performing regular vulnerability scanning and penetration testing to assist in threat detection and threat management
Security Consulting and Education
- Provide advice on achieving and maintaining compliance against externally mandated cyber security requirements
Data Reporting and Analytics
- Assist in the compilation of cyber security metrics for reporting within NUIT; across the University; and where necessary external to the University
Miscellaneous
- Any other reasonable duties that fall within the scope of the post, as allocated by the line manager

The Person

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Current foundation knowledge of cyber security and related processes, systems and procedures gained through academic or personal studies
Solve problems based upon experience, and the ability to seek out new information
Can communicate effectively with colleagues and students

Attributes and Behaviour

Delivering Services
- Takes responsibility for achieving own targets
- Has a positive attitude for doing things better
- Looks for ways to make immediate improvements (quick wins)
Communicating
- Disseminate key organisational messages internally and ensures understanding
- Chooses communications tools appropriately e.g., selective use of email and other channels of communication
- Clear and concise; gets the message across to others
Team Working
- Shares relevant and useful information with others
- Keeps other team members up to date with progress
- Gets involved with team tasks
- Willing to help others and share workloads
- Operates with a number of different teams across the institution
Finding Solutions
- Uses initiative to sort things out, is enterprising in effective use of material, financial and human resources
- Looks at ways of overcoming obstacles rather than coming to a standstill
- Keeps an open mind to alternative ways of doing things

Qualifications

Post holder must be working towards an under-graduate degree in Computing Science or related discipline, looking for a pre-final year work placement

Other

Any job offer will be subject to the successful completion of HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard pre-employment security screening

Newcastle University is committed to being a fully inclusive Global University which actively recruits, supports, and retains staff from all sectors of society. We value diversity as well as celebrate, support, and thrive on the contributions of all our employees and the communities they represent. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from everybody, regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital status/civil partnership, pregnancy, and maternity, as well as being open to flexible working practices.

The University holds a silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality. The University also holds the HR Excellence in Research award for our work to support the career development of our researchers, and is a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe.

Cyber Security Student Placement 2022