KE-Senior Manager, Information Security (National)

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT field, or four (4) years’ work experience in IT if a bachelor’s degree required. A master’s degree is preferred.
  
• Other advanced professional training in IT Security is required (NIST CSP, CISSP, GIAC, CISA, CISM, CompTIA Security+) related or equivalent.
  

Responsibilities

Strategic Support and Management

• Develop, implement, and monitor a strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security and IT risk management program to ensure that the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of information is owned, controlled, or processed by the organization.
  
• The CWS Africa Information System should be secured according to the organizational defined policies, Integrity and Compliance Guide, Federal IT security requirements and the National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST) moderate controls among other information systems local and global legal and best practice requirements.
  
• Manage the enterprise's information security organization, consisting of direct reports and indirect reports (such as individuals in business continuity and IT operations). This includes hiring, training, staff development, performance management, and annual performance reviews.
  
• Facilitate information security governance through the implementation of a hierarchical governance program, including the formation of an information security steering committee or advisory board.
  
• The SMIS provides input and recommendations to IT and CWS Africa management on systems security updates and trends advises on key IT security areas including risk management, legal and regulatory compliance, and policy in all CWS Africa countries of operation; and oversees ongoing risk identification, remediation, compliance, and vendor risk management.
  
• Works with SISO to develop, maintain and publish up-to-date information security policies, standards, and guidelines. Oversee the approval, training, and dissemination of security policies and practices.
  
• Create, communicate, and implement a risk-based process for vendor risk management, including assessment and treatment for risks that may result from consultants, consultants, and other service providers.
  
• Work with the Regional IT Director to develop and manage information security budgets and monitor them for variances.
  
• Review and approve information security and risk management awareness training programs for all employees, contractors, and approved system users, working closely with the training department.
  
• Work directly with the business units to facilitate IT risk assessment and risk management processes and collaborate with stakeholders throughout the enterprise on identifying acceptable levels of residual risk.
  
• Provide regular reporting on the status of the information security program to enterprise risk teams, senior business leaders, and the board of directors as part of a strategic enterprise risk management program.
  
• Create and maintain a framework for roles and responsibilities regarding information ownership, classification, accountability, and protection.
  
• Enhance the information security management framework based on Federal government requirements and oversee consistent implementation.
  
• Provide strategic risk guidance for IT projects, including the evaluation and recommendation of technical controls.
  
• Liaise with the enterprise architecture team to ensure alignment between the security and enterprise architectures, thus coordinating the strategic planning implicit in these architectures.
  
• Coordinate information security and risk management projects with resources from the IT organization and business unit teams.
  
• Ensure that security programs comply with relevant laws, regulations, and policies to minimize or eliminate risk and audit findings.
  
• Define and facilitate the information security risk assessment process, including the reporting and oversight of treatment efforts to address negative findings.
  
• Manage security incidents and events to protect corporate IT assets, including intellectual property, regulated data, and the company's reputation.
  
• Monitor the external threat environment for emerging threats and advise relevant stakeholders on the appropriate courses of action.
  
• Develop and oversee effective disaster recovery policies and standards to align with enterprise business continuity management program goals. Coordinate the development of implementation plans and procedures to ensure that business-critical services are recovered in the event of a security event. Provide direction, support, and in-house consulting in these areas.
  
• Facilitate a metrics and reporting framework to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the program, facilitate appropriate resource allocation, and increase the maturity of the security.
  
• Understand and interact with related disciplines through committees to ensure the consistent application of policies and standards across all technology projects, systems, and services, including, but not limited to, privacy, risk management, compliance, and business continuity management.
  

Security Liaison

• Liaise among the information security team and corporate compliance, Risk & Compliance, Supply Chain, HR, Programs among other relevant management teams as required.
  
• Liaise with external agencies, such as law enforcement and other advisory bodies as necessary, to ensure that the organization maintains a strong security posture.
  
• Liaises with RPC and CWS HQ IT security personnel on any security related matters or incidents. Assist resource owners and IT staff in understanding and responding to security audit failures reported by auditors.
  
• Work as a liaison with vendors and the legal and purchasing departments to establish mutually acceptable contracts and service-level agreements.
  
• Manage security issues and incidents and participate in problem and change management forums.
  
• Ensuring timely reporting and adequate participation in investigation for ICT security incidents.
  
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to identify information asset owners to classify data and systems as part of a control framework implementation.
  
• Work with IT and business stakeholders to define metrics and reporting strategies that effectively communicate successes and progress of the security program.
  

Architecture / Engineering Support

• Consult with IT and security staff to ensure that security is factored into the evaluation, selection, installation and configuration of hardware, applications, and software.
  
• Works with relevant IT Staff in systems configuration management, changes, updates and daily monitoring and reporting as required by IT management; Provides IT security related assistance and oversight to IT Officers in South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and all sub offices.
  
• Recommend and coordinate the implementation of technical controls to support and enforce defined security policies.
  
• Research, evaluate, design, test, recommend or plan the implementation of new or updated information security hardware or software, and analyze its impact on the existing environment; provide technical and managerial expertise for the administration of security tools.
  
• Work with the enterprise architecture team to ensure that there is a convergence of business, technical and security requirements; liaise with IT management to align existing technical installed base and skills with future architectural requirements.
  
• Develop a strong working relationship with the security engineering team to develop and implement controls and configurations aligned with security policies and legal, regulatory and audit requirements.
  

Operational Support

• Coordinate measures and report on the technical aspects of security management.
  
• Manage outsourced vendors that provide information security functions for compliance with contracted service-level agreements.
  
• Manage and coordinate operational components of incident management, including detection, response, and reporting.
  
• Maintain a knowledgebase comprising a technical reference library, security advisories and alerts, information on security trends and practices, and laws and regulations.
  
• Oversee day-to-day activities of threat and vulnerability management, identify risk tolerances, recommend treatment plans, communicate information about residual risk, review, edit and approve reports.
  
• Ensure audit trails, system logs and other monitoring data sources are reviewed periodically and comply with policies and audit requirements.
  
• Oversee Annual internal IT security Audit/Assessment against the NIST security framework; including a risk assessment and budget estimation for risk mitigation and treatment; and ensuring compliance with all the regulatory controls.
  
• Design, coordinate, and oversee security-testing procedures to verify the security of systems, networks, and applications, and manage the remediation of identified risks.
  
• Design, coordinate, and oversee security-testing procedures to verify the security of systems, networks, and applications, and manage the remediation of identified risks.
  
• Resolves all escalated IT security related requests escalated from the SISO and the service desk Performs other duties assigned by the IT Coordinator or the CWS Africa management team when necessary.