Cyber Security Training & Awareness Manager

Cyber Security Training & Awareness Manager

9 Month Contract

Hybrid - 2 days per week in the office

Our Insurance client is seeking a Cyber Security Training & Awareness Manager to join them on a 9-month contract. As part of the CISO team, you will reduce cyber security, privacy and operational resilience risk by leading their Training and Awareness program that is driving a Security First culture across the organisation.

Accountabilities:

• Lead the CISO Academy and CISO Champions programme to deliver cyber security, operational resilience & data privacy awareness campaigns to drive a security first culture across the organisation.
• To ensure the security training and awareness program meets all industry regulations, standards, and compliance requirements.
• Manages communication to ensure that all employees are aware of and understand the organisation's CISO policies and procedures.
• Supports phishing simulation tests and other security exercises to test and improve employee awareness and response.
• Manage up-to-date security threats, trends, and best practices, and continuously improve training materials and methods.
• Develop metrics to measure the effectiveness of training and awareness to report on progress to stakeholders.
• Manage a strategy for CISO employees across training & development, talent retention with opportunities to support career progression.

Experience Required:

• Knowledge of information security best practices and awareness topics.
• Knowledge of security standards / frameworks, e.g., NIST, CIS Benchmarks, PCI.
• Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal, and design skills with demonstrable competence and experience in clearly explaining complex information security concepts and technologies for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in creating impactful content (emails, social posts, articles, presentations, online training, webinars), with proven success in engagement.
• Ability to manage effective relationships with business stakeholders, technical teams and 3rd party vendors.
• Ability to manage competing deadlines and prioritise responsibilities to effectively meet business needs.
• Demonstrate strong competence in Microsoft Office tools including Microsoft Share Point.
• Communicate and present concisely and effectively based on appropriate level of management interaction.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team at all levels and across all business units.
• Motivated to delivering quality and striving for continual improvement.

Desirable:

• Working in the Financial Services industry
• Working in information security
• Project Management and Project Management tools
• Financial Management tools

To apply for this position please submit your CV.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.