Main Purpose of Job
Cybersecurity specialists are responsible for enabling security awareness in employees, contractors, and business partners by providing knowledge and examples through various learning, activities, and communication channels. This ensures user awareness regarding cyber-attacks and their ability to protect themselves and their businesses from cyber threats.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement security awareness roadmaps tailored to the organization's unique environment with engaging and informative initiatives for all employees and specific target groups.
- Create engaging content to ensure the message is heard and applied in diverse and original forms (e.g. articles, posters, board games, videos, flyers, learning modules, etc.).
- Conduct security awareness maturity assessments to evaluate the current situation awareness levels and identify areas of vulnerabilities based on an existing maturity framework.
- Monitor and measure the effectiveness of the security awareness initiatives through engagement and behavioral metrics.
- Organize security events.
- Convey technical security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including executives.
- Stay current with the latest technological developments, human threats, and developments in behavioral science.
Key Experiences
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Information Technology, Business Management, Human Psychology (Organizational Psychology), Applied Psychology or related major.
- A minimum of 2 years of related work experience in security awareness, cyberculture management, or cyber training.
- A passion for the human factor in security
- A passion for educating and empowering employees against digital threats
- Ability to communicate complex concepts in a simple yet impactful manner and link cyber security to the corporate strategy.
- Marketing-minded: Creativity and imagination, capacity to develop new ways of delivering the message engaging and innovatively.
- Gamification (gamifying the learning experience)
- Ability to constantly stay updated with the evolving cyber threat landscape and the latest cyber security and learning science developments.
- A talent for behavioral change
- Preferred: familiarity with content-creating and content-editing tools
- High achiever, team player, quality-oriented, enthusiastic, people person
- General consulting: appetite for client work, presentation skills, ability to work independently and in teams.
- The ability to plan, manage, and maintain a complex, organization-wide program over the longer term.
- Self-manage and work independently.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Good English level & Communication skill
Other Personal Qualities
- Drive for getting things done, deliver what is promised
- Able to work effectively in a complex (matrix) environment
- Strong can-do attitude; Positive and constructive thinker
- Enjoy working in a challenging, fast-paced, and dynamic changing environment
- Works well under pressure
- Live with Cybersecurity Leadership Framework behaviors
- Structured and process orientation
- Deliverables-focused, time-bounded
