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About the Role
Join NESA's ICT team and play a critical role in protecting the systems, information, and services that support education across New South Wales. Contribute to the ongoing maturity of NESA's cyber security program through security assurance activities, incident management, risk monitoring, and the development of information security policies and practices.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and support cyber security assurance activities to strengthen security controls, compliance, and organizational resilience.
- Monitor, analyze, and research cyber security threats, vulnerabilities, and emerging risks across the organization.
- Conduct security reviews and audits to assess compliance with security standards, policies, and frameworks.
- Investigate and report cyber security risks, incidents, vulnerabilities, and potential breaches, while coordinating remediation activities with internal and external stakeholders.
- Collaborate with managed service providers, vendors, and business stakeholders to monitor security trends, identify vulnerabilities, and improve security controls.
- Provide cyber security advice, guidance, and awareness initiatives that support a strong security culture across the organization.
- Develop, review, and maintain information security policies, procedures, and related governance documentation.
- Support the ongoing management and maturity of NESA's cyber security program, information assets, and security assessment processes.
Requirements
- Experience coordinating security assurance, audit, compliance, or governance activities within a cyber security environment.
- Demonstrated experience developing, reviewing, or implementing cyber security policies, standards, procedures, or related governance documentation.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to identify, assess, and communicate cyber security risks, vulnerabilities, and remediation strategies.
- Experience managing competing priorities and delivering quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment with changing demands.
- Ability to build productive relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders and communicate complex security concepts clearly and practically.
- Commitment to maintaining contemporary knowledge of cyber security threats, technologies, frameworks, and industry practices.
- Experience in working with Monitoring and detection tools, SIEM, and application whitelisting.
- Experience in an information technology role, preferably working in a cyber-security environment.
- Knowledge of vulnerability management, malware, network analysis, security tools, ISO27001, Essential 8, and NSW Cyber Security Policy.
- A current NSW Working with Children Check (WWCC) clearance for paid employment is required before commencing in this role.
- Must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident for ongoing roles.
Skills
- Cyber security assurance
- Incident management
- Risk monitoring
- Information security policies
- Security controls
- Compliance
- Organizational resilience
- Threat analysis
- Vulnerability assessment
- Security reviews
- Security audits
- Remediation activities
- Managed service provider collaboration
- Vendor collaboration
- Business stakeholder collaboration
- Security advice
- Security guidance
- Security awareness initiatives
- Governance documentation
- Monitoring and detection tools
- SIEM
- Application whitelisting
- Vulnerability management
- Malware analysis
- Network analysis
- Security tools
- ISO27001
- Essential 8
- NSW Cyber Security Policy
Location
- Hybrid work arrangements available
Work Type
- Full-time
- Ongoing role
Experience Level
- Clerk Grade 7/8
Salary/Compensations
- $116,981 to $129,492 p.a. plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and leave loading
Benefits
- Employer’s contribution to superannuation
- Leave loading
- Flexible working arrangements
- Generous leave entitlements
- Access to discounted health and fitness memberships via Fitness Passport
- Employee assistance program
- Annual flu vaccinations
- Salary packaging options
About the Company
- At the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), we are dedicated to carrying out meaningful work that drives improvements and elevates student achievement across NSW, now and into the future.
- We accomplish this by supporting all school sectors with high-quality syllabuses, assessment (including managing the HSC and NAPLAN), teaching standards (e.g., accrediting teachers) and school environments (including setting and monitoring school standards).
- NESA is a unique organisation in NSW (of around 740 FTE staff) with significant state-wide impact.
Equal Opportunity
- We particularly welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people of all ages, genders, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and the LGBTQIA+ community.