Governance, Risk and Compliance Lead

About this role

Responsibilities

• This function co-ordinates the definition of policies and adherence assessments in the CERN Office of the CIO in areas of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). This includes data governance, enterprise architecture, cyber-security and vendor risk management.
• Your responsibilities
• Lead and coordinate Governance, Risk, and Compliance activities across the Office of the CIO (OCIO).
• Represent the OCIO in senior management forums and technical committees, ensuring alignment and visibility.
• Develop and manage OCIO work plans, monitor progress, and proactively flag risks or issues to the CIO.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all audit-related matters within the CIO function.
• Your profile
• Ability to design and implement policy frameworks in areas such as data governance, cybersecurity and computing architecture.
• Experience of stakeholder-management including facilitating multi-party collaboration.
• Excellent analytics skills with an ability to work effectively in a federated environment with distributed responsibilities.
• Understand risk management methodologies and enterprise risk frameworks.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity standards and best practices (such as ISO 27001, NIST).
• Master's Degree or PhD or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Information Technology or a related field.
• Your skills
• Architecture and design of ICT systems.
• Process analysis, definition and improvement.
• Implementation of vision and strategic agility.
• Knowledge of best practices for implementing ICT security standards and policies.
• Risk management.
• Assures alignment to overall strategy when revising unit goals and priorities in the event of changing circumstances.
• Understands how individual differences bring added value to the Organization; promotes complementarities.
• Listens actively to others and lets others speak.
• Demonstrates an openness to new ideas and situations.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.
• Grade range: 8
• Benchmark job: 2