Digital Security Project Manager

• Coordinate and control an organization-wide program in the field of digital security and information security.
• Prepare and monitor an integrated phase plan with planning, milestones, risks, dependencies, and decision-making moments.
• Set up and maintain a program dashboard for progress, risks, dependencies, and results.
• Develop and implement a reporting and accountability cycle towards the board, management, and clients.
• Professionalize the governance, consultation, and decision-making structure within the program.
• Monitor the coherence between projects, cybersecurity risks, compliance obligations, and BIO2 implementation.
• Identify risks and bottlenecks and translate them into concrete improvement and decision-making proposals.
• Advise the CISO and other stakeholders on priorities, program progress, and risk management.
• Coordinate the further implementation and embedding of information security measures.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of program control and governance.
• Update the roadmap for digital security and prepare the next program phase.
• Prepare a closing and transfer file with achieved results, lessons learned, and recommendations.

What they ask

• Experienced project and program management professional who combines in-depth cybersecurity knowledge with strong organizational, analytical, and administrative skills.
• Demonstrable experience in coordinating complex programs in the field of information security, digital security, or cyber resilience.
• Understands the challenges of public and security-critical organizations and knows how legislation, information security policy, technical risks, and administrative decision-making are interconnected.
• Demonstrable experience with the implementation of BIO and/or BIO2 and familiar with advising CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs.
• Knows how to establish governance, develop management information, and connect various stakeholders with diverse interests.

Harde eisen.

• A demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level.
• A valid ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer certificate.
• Demonstrable experience with the implementation of BIO and/or BIO2 within a government or security organization.
• Demonstrable experience as an information security advisor to a CIO, CTO, and/or CISO.
• At least one comparable assignment in the past 3 years within the security domain (e.g., a security region, emergency call center organization, or police organization).
• At least 3 years of work experience in the past 5 years with program direction, program control, and/or program management within cybersecurity, information security, or digital security programs.
• Demonstrable practical experience with the Base27 Risk & Compliance Platform.

Strong plus is experience with.

• Multiple assignments within a security region or comparable organization within the public order and security domain.
• Setting up governance, decision-making structures, management dashboards, and program accountability.
• Stakeholder management within administratively complex public organizations.
• Advising management, board, CIOs, and CISOs.
• The implementation, coordination, and structural embedding of BIO/BIO2.
• Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM).
• Data Security Governance and Information Security Management Systems (ISMS).
• Risk management and vulnerability management.
• Developing roadmaps, improvement programs, and management reports.

Personal competencies.

• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Administrative and organizational sensitivity.
• Strong communication and advisory skills at management and board level.
• The ability to connect diverse interests and create support.
• An independent, proactive, and results-oriented approach.
• Natural authority and the ability to hold stakeholders accountable.
• A structured approach with attention to quality, progress, and risk management.
• The ability to effectively connect policy, technology, and business operations.