Description:
Our client is a federal government organisation with offices throughout Australia. Due to growth, they are seeking an EL2 Cyber Security Risk Transformation Manager to join their team in any of their following offices – Richmond, Canberra, Geelong and Perth.
- 18-month initial contract plus 18-month extension, excellent rates negotiable
- Hybrid with 3 days per week onsite
- Federal government role – Australian citizenship required
- NV1 Security Clearance required (sponsorship granted by client if you don’t have it already)
The role:
The Cyber Security Risk Transformation Manager is accountable directly to the CISO to undertake work with a high level of complexity or sensitivity that delivers quality outcomes across the functions of the client.
The position is an important thought leadership position and will have delegated authority and responsibility to resolve issues and risks across wide-ranging activities of substantial depth involving significant detail. The role is required to provide thought leadership, control, planning, resource management and decision making for the team.
The Cyber Security Risk Transformation Manager is responsible for initiating, establishing and maintaining relationships with key internal and external stakeholders. Where required, they will represent and negotiate on behalf of the client to advance the client’s interests in cross-agency, inter-jurisdictional and other forums.
Key duties and responsibilities:
Transforming agency cyber security risk management practices and policies to better enhance management of cyber security risk for the client aligned to ISO 31000 and other better-practice risk frameworks
- Continue the transformation from a compliance-based security model to a better-practice cyber security risk model aligned to business objectives
- Aligning cyber security risk management practices across risk identification, analysis and evaluation within the client to enhance outcomes
- Advising the client on how they can build and embed cyber resilience within people, process, technology and third parties through agile and innovative Risk Management, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- Working with key stakeholders, design agency disaster recovery solutions for worst case cyber security scenarios, including working with technology vendors, documenting recovery processes, and testing/exercising recovery methods
- Lead cyber resilience assessments; operational and service management processes; technical architecture, data resilience, testing and failover automation activities
- Create and uplift the Risk Transformation & Resilience area and ensure it is a significant element of ICT and the agency as a whole
- Lead and own process risk and resilience transformation and identify continuous improvement opportunities across service lines
- Identify gaps in risk and resilience processes, technology, and tools, proposing best practices to streamline operations.
About you:
The client is seeking a strong leader who has proven and demonstrated experience with the above key duties and responsibilities. You will ideally have worked in a government environment previously in a similar role with advanced Cyber Security Risk Transformation management experience.
APPLY:
Submit your resume or contact Shelley at shelley.harrison@talentinternational.com or call on 0418 572 482 for further information. Shortlisted will be contacted and applicants will be required provide an overview of your experience up to 5000 characters once you have been shortlisted. Submission date closes Tuesday 6th May.