About the Role
Gloucester Business Park, Gloucester - with flexibility of working from home, minimum 3 days a week in the office.
Do you have a strong background in personnel security or vetting, with the ability to lead projects and collaborate across teams? Are you someone who thrives in a regulated environment where clear communication, policy alignment, and stakeholder engagement? If so, come and join EDF as a Personnel Security Policy Lead!
The Opportunity
As a Personnel Security Policy Lead, you’ll lead the development and streamlining of EDF Personnel Security Policy across HPC, SZC and Nuclear Operations – particularly considering upcoming government changes. You’ll need to understand additional stakeholder requirements and processes for publishing documentation. You will also provide oversight for the team developing EDF’s Insider Risk Programme in line with evolving Cabinet Office Personnel Security Policy. In both areas, you will need to ensure compliance with government and regulatory expectations, including ONR SyAPs changes. You’ll collaborate across HR, recruitment, onboarding, export control, and other key teams to maintain alignment with security requirements.
This role requires excellent stakeholder management skills, as you’ll work with a wide range of internal partners to articulate risks and implement practical, forward-thinking solutions. You’ll also play a critical role in assessing and managing insider risk across the full nuclear lifecycle, supporting ongoing business change through strategic insight and operational assurance.
Pay, benefits and culture
Alongside a starting salary of £44,800 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.
We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.
At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.
Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.
We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.
What you’ll be doing
You will provide strategic direction and oversight for policy alignment, drafting documents and ensuring adherence with regulations and company standards. You will also provide direction and support to colleagues focused on insider risk, ensuring governance.
Collaboration with stakeholders across HR, recruitment, onboarding, export control, legal, and other licensee groups is key to ensuring timely implementation of government policy changes — with escalation and progress tracking as needed.
It’s your responsibility to ensure all policy development and communications meet corporate and licensee standards. Continuous improvement is driven through action tracking, and incorporation of lessons learned.
Who you are
You’ll have the ability to lead and deliver complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, with a focus on Personnel Security, Policy, and Insider Risk. You’ll bring excellent collaboration and communication skills to ensure timely delivery of work, clear action management, and alignment with corporate and regulatory standards.
You’ll need to be confident working in a regulated environment, with a good understanding of government security requirements and how they apply to policy. Strong computer literacy and the ability to draft, align, and implement policies within a corporate and regulatory framework are essential. You should also be comfortable supporting and guiding team members to achieve project goals.
We’re looking for someone with proven leadership capability, experience working with cross-functional teams, and a strong grasp of the security landscape. Prior experience within Personnel Security or Insider Risk—particularly within a regulated or nuclear context—is highly desirable. An understanding of Nuclear Security teams and ways of working would be beneficial, as would experience delivering security programmes.
If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you!
To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Clearance (SC) which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 5 years.
Closing date for applications: 13th August 2025
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