Information Assurance Consultant Outside IR35 Remote

Position: Information Assurance Consultant
Location: Remote
Daily Rate: £450 - £500 outside IR35
Clearance: UKSV SC Clearance Required

We are supporting a specialist cyber security SME as they expand a central government delivery team, and we are seeking an Information Assurance Consultant with strong GovAssure and NCSC CAF experience.

You will play a key role providing independent assurance, supporting senior stakeholders, and helping government departments understand, assess, and improve their cyber security maturity.

The Role

Working closely with delivery teams, risk owners, and senior accountable officers, you will:

• Deliver GovAssure-aligned assurance assessments
• Lead CAF evidence gathering, maturity scoring and reporting
• Provide pragmatic, actionable recommendations to improve security posture
• Support audit readiness and ongoing assurance activities

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong experience delivering GovAssure and NCSC CAF-aligned assurance
• Governance, risk assessment and risk treatment planning
• CAF evidence gathering, maturity scoring and assurance reporting
• Stakeholder engagement including SIROs and risk owners
• Security architecture and protective controls (IAM, Zero Trust, network, endpoint)
• Vulnerability management, secure configuration and supply-chain security
• Security monitoring, SIEM and detection capability assessment
• Incident response, business continuity and resilience planning
• Independent assurance, gap analysis and remediation planning
• Familiarity with frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST CSF, JSP 440/604, Cyber Essentials Plus, DSP Toolkit

To learn more, please do reach out to Tom Royston via email on

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