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South HollandHybrid34 hours/weekDuration negotiable
As Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), you will work on firmly embedding information security and digital resilience within multiple public organizations.
- Your impact is significant: you work for several entities, each with its own responsibilities and interests. You seek joint solutions while keeping an eye on what each organization needs.
- You play a major role in maturing information security for these organizations and contribute to the digital safety of residents and employees.
- You are the strategic and tactical advisor for the board, directorates, and management.
- You translate complex or technical issues into clear choices: what is the risk, what can we do, and what does that mean in practice?
- You regularly discuss the current risk landscape, relevant developments, and the progress of measures with the organizations.
- You work closely with ISO and TISO colleagues and in consultation with the Data Protection Officer.
- You maintain relationships with these colleagues and with the affiliated organizations.
- You follow developments in cybersecurity, legislation, AI, cloud, digital autonomy, and supplier dependency.
- You connect with relevant national and/or regional networks.
- You link policy with daily practice.
What you do
- Ensure up-to-date, board-approved strategic information security policy, fitting the practice of the affiliated organizations and based on external developments and recent legislation.
- Provide solicited and unsolicited advice to the board, directorate, and management of the affiliated organizations.
- Maintain the necessary consultation structures with the four organizations.
- On behalf of the organizations, maintain contact with relevant (government) bodies, supervisors in your field, and peer organizations.
- Act as the first point of contact for information security-related topics for the board, directorate, and management, and support the colleges in information security accountability to the councils.
- Be responsible for the products and tasks associated with a CISO role.
What they ask
- Experienced professional in information security and digital resilience.
- Looks beyond standards and technology.
- Understands public sector practice, has an eye for organizational and political-administrative relationships, and can timely identify and translate developments.
- Contributes ideas on what is possible and how to achieve it in a responsible and practical way.
- Knows when an issue requires a board-level discussion and when a concrete solution is needed.
- Actively gathers information on what is happening within the organizations and is visible and regularly present at the affiliated organizations.
- Actively builds relationships, listens carefully, and can bring together different interests.
- Maintains connection even with resistance and seeks ways to get people on board.
- Dares to hold a mirror up to the board and management at the right moment.
- Provides clear advice and presentations and communicates understandably with both specialists and non-specialists.
- Takes initiative and works result-oriented.
Profile
- Minimum HBO (higher professional education) working and thinking level.
- Minimum 4 years of experience in a relevant role, preferably as CISO, but also experience as a seasoned ISO.
- Demonstrable knowledge of BIO/BIO2, Cybersecurity Act/NIS2, ENSIA, and relevant laws and regulations.
- Experience with risk management.
- Affinity with developments such as AI, cloud, digital autonomy, and data-driven work.
- Persuasiveness and the ability to build support even in the face of resistance.
- Demonstrable attention to relationship building and naturally being visible and regularly present at the affiliated organizations.
Preferences.
- Experience as CISO or senior ISO within a government organization is strongly preferred.
- Experience with incident response and business continuity.
- Relevant certification such as CISM, CISSP, or similar.
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